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long as the Ist; club rather small, very compact, pubescent, 

 acuminate. Rostrum narrower than the head, nearly twice as long 

 as broad, strigose-rugose, unimpressed, with a fovea between the 

 eyes, these moderately large, rather convex. Thorax rather longer 

 than broad, rounded at the sides and considerably narrowed 

 in front, covered with a peculiar dense intricate sculpture, with a 

 narrow smooth space along the middle. Scutellum very short and 

 broad, but quite distinct. Elytra elongate oval, base as broad as 

 the thorax, shoulders not prominent ; covered Avith a fine sculpture 

 rendering the surface somewhat leathar-like, and bearing, in 

 addition to long erect setae, some fine depressed setae, representing 

 scales : there is no trace of striation or punctuation. Under- 

 surface destitute of scales ; ventral segments quite shining 

 sparingly punctate. 



Mr. Lewis received five examples of this interesting 

 insect from Ketoi one of the Kurile Islands, in 1881. It 

 raises a lively desire to know something more of the 

 insect fauna of these islands, of which we are at present 

 in almost complete ignorance — at any rate, so far as the 

 Coleoptera are concerned. 



