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I have seen twenty specimens of this species ; they 

 vary a good deal in colour and in the vestiture. Most of 

 the series were procured at Nikko, but the species was 

 also met with at Miyanoshita, Higo, Bukenji, Oyaraa^ and 

 Awomori. 



3. Phyllohiiis armatus. 



P. armatus, Roelofs, Ann. Soc. ent. Belgique, xviii., 

 C.R., p. cxxviii. 



This species was described by M. Roelofs from a single 

 pair, found by M. Van Volxem, and was not represented 

 in the first collection made by Mr. Lewis, I refer to the 

 species six examples found by Mr. Lewis at Nikko, 

 Tokio, and Oyama. The insect is rather more robust, 

 and has a broader after-body than its allies, and is 

 distinguished, in addition to the remarkable characters 

 of the male, by the conspicuous, soft, upright pubescence 

 with which the body is clothed. In addition to the 

 remarkable structure of the male front tibia3, described 

 by M. Roelofs, it should be noticed that the hind tibia3 

 have a slight excavation on the apical portion of the 

 inner face, that the metasternum and first abdominal 

 segment are impressed, but that the apical ventral 

 segment is not trough-like, but vaguely irregularly 

 impressed. It is not noticed in M. Roelofs' description 

 that the antennte are in larger part black, and that there 

 is a vague, denuded black stripe, along the side of each 

 wing-case. 



4. PJiyllohius annectens, n. sp. 



Gracilis, niger, viridi-squamulatus, pube laxa, erecta, minus dense 

 vestitus ; antennis elongatis, tenuibus, ex parte rufis. Long. 8-9 mm. 



This is allied to P. armatus, and is distinguished from 

 other species, except the one mentioned, by the erect, 

 soft pubescence clothing the body. The front tibiee of 

 the male are like those of P. armatus, but are more 

 slender; while on the ether hand the hind tibias are 

 more evidently dilated at the tip, and more deeply 

 emarginate on the inner face. 'L'he abdominal characters 

 of the male are like those of P. armatus, but the apical 

 ventral plate is more regularly depressed in a longitudinal 



