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A few specimens only have been obtained of this 

 species. It is apparently very variable, but the material 

 does not enable me to decide certainly that there is 

 more than one species. Two individuals (without exact 

 locality) have the elytra longer, and narrower, of a very 

 dark colour, and marked behind the middle with two 

 separated spots instead of a fascia. 



Kiushiu, at Nagasaki and Ichiuchi in April. 



Blosyrus, Schonherr. 

 1. Blosyrus japoniciis, n. sp. 



Niger, fusco-squamosus, sordidus, antennis piceis, prothorace 

 brevi, medio carinulato, elytris globosis, interstitiis leviter convexis. 

 Long. 6^ mm. 



Antenna) short, third joint scarcely longer than the second. 

 Rostrum very short, not longer than broad, flat, with distinct 

 angular transverse depression in front of the eyes. Thorax 

 short and broad, very strongly transverse, rounded at the 

 sides, with an obscure carina on the middle, most distinct in front ; 

 the surface squamose ; with a few very minute shining granules. 

 Elytra much broader than the thorax, convex and globose, with 

 series of rather coarse punctures, the interstices broad, slightly 

 convex, and set with very short set*. 



The sculpture and clothing in this insect are more or 

 less obscured by the dirt with which the insect becomes 

 covered. There is a longitudinal channel on the middle 

 of the head in two examples ; in two others it can 

 scarcely be detected, perhaps owing to its being 

 obliterated by dirt mixed with an exudation. 



Awomori and Sapporo : four specimens. 



Catafionus. 



Catapionus, Schonh., Gen. Cure, vi., 2, p. 245 ; Roelofs, 

 Ann. ent. Belg., xvi., p. 155. 



M. Roelofs has examined the type species of this 

 genus, and has informed us that the G. viridimetaUicus 

 of Japan is certainly congeneric with it. He has also 

 called attention to some errors in Lacordaire's description 

 of the genus, and has added three other species from 

 Japan : I should certainly not have recognized Lacor- 

 daire's description of the genus as being applicable to 



