102 Mr. David Sliarp on the 



rostrum and scrobes is that of P. calcaratus. The scape 

 is strongly bent, moderately long and stout, the club 

 rather short ; there is no swelling over the eyes. The 

 thorax is small, much narrower than the elytra, nearly 

 straight at the sides. The elytra are rather long and 

 narrow, and have no denuded lateral stripe. All the 

 femora are dentate, the tooth being rather broad and 

 short; the hind tibias are somewhat cut away on inner 

 face of their lower half, and this part is minutely ci'enate 

 or tuberoulate. 



Kashiwagi, in the southern part of the Main island, 

 June 20th, 1881 : a small series. 



Two females have no metallic coloration, the elytra 

 being covered with a fine pubescence somewhat as is 

 P. nigritus. I consider them to be only a variety of 

 P. japonicus. 



P. japonicus was described by Faust from a single 

 example, said to be of the female sex. It is not quite 

 clear from the description that it is certainly this species, 

 but I cannot reconcile Faust's description with any other, 

 except this species. 



8. PhyUohius polydrusoides, n. sp. 



Squamulis Isete viridi-micantibua dense vestitus ; antennis 

 scapo in medio abrupte curvato, fere angulato. Long. 5 mm. 



This is a very remarkable species, of which only one 

 example has been found. It has the appearance of a 

 Polydrusns more than of a PhyUohius, and the head has 

 a marked angular prominence on each side over the eyes, 

 much the same as in Pohjdrusus pterygOmalis. The scape 

 is short, nearly black, just before the middle abruptly 

 bent, the outer part incrassate, the club short, and not 

 acuminate. Eostrum very short, the scrobes not definite, 

 but attaining the eye ; this latter convex very remote 

 from the thorax, the front of the rostrum quite flat. 

 Thorax rather small and short, brilliantly scaled. Elytra 

 covered with scales of a beautiful green colour, without 

 any admixture of pubescence, the series of punctures quite 

 distinct, the external one deeply impressed at the tip, 

 and broader, so as to mark off there a sort of inferior 

 margin. Legs black, clothed with some setae, tarsi 

 piceous. Femora each armed with a slender tooth, that 

 on the anterior being minute. 



