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vex ; the very fine hair is quite short in front, but on the 

 apical part is longer and more conspicuous. The femora 

 are each armed with a remarkably prominent tooth, that 

 On the middle and hind femora being more abrupt and 

 spine-like than usual. 



The male differs much from the female, being of more 

 long and slender form, with the antennse somewhat 

 longer and the femora more inflated. The breast and 

 the first ventral plate are depi-essed in the middle, and 

 the terminal ventral segment is broadly, rather deeply im- 

 pressed ; there are slight depressions on the penultimate 

 and antepenultimate segments. 



Hitoyoshi in Kiushiu, May 8th, 1881 : a small series. 



[Phyllohius picipes.] 



P. picipes, Motsch., Etudes ent. ix., p. 20 (1860) ; 

 Desbrochers, Abeille, xi., 1873, p. 660. 



Motschoulsky's description is of little importance, but 

 he remarks that the species is 4-5 mm. long, that it 

 resembles P. argentatus, and that the eyes are *^sub- 

 prominuli.'^ Desbrochers' description was made from a 

 specimen sent by Motschoulsky to Jekel ; and of this 

 Desbrochers says that the eyes are " tres-saillants, tres- 

 detaches.^' This renders it clear that Motschoulsky 

 mixed together at least two very distinct species — the 

 prominence of the eyes being of very great importance 

 in the Japanese Phyllobii — and 1 think his name should 

 be consigned to oblivion. 



7. Phyllobius japonicus. 

 Minor, niger, sat dense viridi-squamosus, pedibus antennisque 

 rufo-obscuiis, his clava nigra. Long. 5 mm. 



t Phyllobius japonicus, Faust, Stett. ent. Zeit. 1., 1889, 

 p. 221. 



Distinguished from the other species by smaller size, 

 and by stouter, less elongate antennse, as well as by the 

 almost total absence of external sexual distinctions. The 

 clothing consists of minute, brilliant green scales, which, 

 however, are nob closely placed, and of short pubescence, 

 which is fine and not erect, and therefore inconspicuous. 

 The eyes, though strongly prominent, are not so much 

 80 as in the various preceding species. The form of the 



