THE 
TRANSACTIONS 
OF THE 
ENTOMOLOGICA.L SOCIETY 
OF 
LONDON 
FOR THE YEAR 1873. 
I. On a new genus (?/" ColydiiclfB,y/'0?w Japan. 
By T. Vernon Wollaston, M.A., F.L.S. 
[Read 6th January, 1873.] 
Fam. CoLYDiiD^. 
Genus Pseudotarphius (nov. gen.). 
Corpus subovale, convexum, rugosum, setosum ac lutoso- 
squamosum : capite prothoracis excavatione usque ad ocu- 
los magnos setosos prominentes immerso : prothorace in 
disco subgibboso, ad latera valde et sub^qualiter rotun- 
dato, subtus simplici (nee pro antennarum receptione 
utrinque excavato) : scutello parvo, rotundato, ^egre ob- 
servando sed tamen distincto : abdomine e segmentis 
5 composito, segm.'* 4 baseos brevibus ac longitudine pau- 
latim decrescentibus. Antenna prothoracis longitudine, 
distantes, ante oculos et sub margine capitis insertse, 10- 
articulatffi, art.'^ 1""" et 2'*° crassiusculis (reliquis majori- 
bus), illo superne vix perspicuo, 3*'° graciliore sed baud 
longiore, sex sequentibus (i. e. ad capituhim) subfequali- 
bus, capitulo solido, subgloboso, uniarticulato (apice solum 
spongioso). MandibulcB validge, subtriangulares, apice 
acut£e inflexfe, intus in medio profunde sinuatJB et lacinia 
membranacea pubescent! instructs. MaxiUm bilobae, 
TRANS, ENT» SOC, 1873. — PART I. (MAR.) B 
