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these Japanese insects, had it not been for M. Roelofs' 

 investigation. The genus is very closely allied to 

 Ctieorhinus, whereas Lacordaire places it in the Bary- 

 notides ; but, as 1 see no reason to doubt the correctness 

 of the conclusion M. Roelofs arrived at, I accept it ; as 

 also his decision that the other species he describes, as 

 belonging to the genus should really be placed in it. 

 The Gneorhinus ? nodosus, Motsch., was not known 

 to M. Roelofs, but it has been obtained by Mr. Lewis 

 during his recent journey, and should, I think, also 

 be associated with the other species of Catapionus 

 at present. Although very different in appearance and 

 in several details of its structure from the C. viridi- 

 metallicus, it is approached in so many points by C. 

 clathratus, Roel., that I hesitate to make it a new 

 genuo. 



1. Catapionus nodosus. 



Gneorhinus t nodosus, Motsch., Etudes ent., ix., 1860, 



p. 21. 

 Dermatodes nodosus, Harold, Deutsche ent. Zeitschr., 



1877, p. 359. 



Nikko, Subashiri, Miyanoshita. 



The species has been received by Mr. J. H. Leech 

 from China (Kiu-Kiang and Ichang), and I have 

 an individual in my collection labelled as being from 

 Assam. 



C. nodosus has the rostrum broader at the apex, 

 and more angularly prominent on each side, the man- 

 dibles are shorter, and each elytron is strongly lobed at 

 the base. Harold's subsequent reference of this insect 

 to Dermatodes was certainly erroneous. 



2. Catapionus clathratus, Roel. 



Catapionus clathratus, Roelofs, op. cit., xvi., 1873, 

 p. 157. 



This was described from a single specimen. In 1881 

 Mr. Lewis procured a small series of examples at 

 Nagasaki, Kashiwagi, and Otsu, in the months of June 

 and July. There is very little variation amongst 

 them, though the species has been found in two of the 

 islands. 



