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find that in E. dlstinctus the scrobes are more widely 

 distant from the eyes than the}' are in Sitones. 



1. E. distinct m, Roelofs, Ann. Soc. ent. Belgique, 

 1873, p. 179. 



E. distinclus seems to be rather common in Japan, and 

 varies greatly in size. 



Parasitones, n. geu. 



Generis Sitonidis per afiinis ; corpus crassum, convexum, meta- 

 sternum brevissimum. 



I can see nothing to distinguish the species for which 

 I establish this genus from Sitones except the short 

 metasternum, and the comparatively short and convex 

 form. I presume, from the rounded form of the elytra, 

 and the absence of shoulders, that the species is apterous. 



1. Parasitones gravidus. 



Latus, convexus, niger, capite thoraceque parce setoso-squamosis ; 

 elytris griseo-squamosis, obsolete maculatis. Long. G|, lat. 3| mm. 



Antennfe short, obscure red, the club darker, 2nd joint rather 

 shorter than the 3rd, club acuminate. Eyes rather large, a little 

 convex. Rostrum short, closely and deeply rugose-punctate, deeply 

 impressed along the middle, the depression broader in front ; the 

 sculptui'e only slightly obscured by the griseous setositj'. Thorax 

 rather large, not so long as broad, much rounded at the sides, base 

 scarcely at all broader than the front ; tho sculpture remarkably 

 coarse, only slightly obscured by the clothing, which is inter- 

 mediate between setse and scales. Elytra broad and convex, 

 narrowed at the shoulders, so that the base is only very slightly 

 broader than the base of the thorax, densely clothed with minute 

 scales, which are griseous in colour, but varied with small darker 

 spots, somewhat after the manner of Liophlceus nuhihts, bearing 

 also a few short, sub-erect sette, most conspicuous on the apical 

 part ; they are striate, and the broad interstices are slightly 

 convex on the declivity, the striaj are punctate, at the base the 

 punctures become very large, but this sculpture is much obscured 

 by the clothing. Under-surface black, sparingly setose. 

 Hakone : live specimens. 



KuRiLONUs, nov. gen. of doubtful position. 

 Mandibula; prominentes, apicibus laminatis, rotundatis. Ungui- 

 culi liberi. 



Mandibles prominent, and forming two laminate, rounded, 

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