2 Mr. T. Venion Wollaston on a 
lobis subfEqualibus, pubescentibiis ; externo versus apicem 
dilatato et valde truncato, dense barbato ; interno paulo 
angustiore, vix breviore, valde ciliato, apice uncinato. 
Palpi maxillares art." 1""* minuto, 2''° 3''°qiie incrassatis, 
subfequalibus, ult.""* elongate, robusto, ovato, ad apicem 
internum oblique subtruncato : lahiales e scapis ligulaj 
connatis surgentes, art." 1""° parvo, 2^° niajore clavato, 
ult."'° elongato fusiformi-ovato et ad apicem minute trun- 
cato. Mentum corneum, subquadratum (antice baud ex- 
cavatum). Ligula cornea, subquadrata, antice sat longe 
ciliata ; parofflossis nuUis. Pedes subcontractiles, setoso- 
squamosi, omnes ad basin parum et subfequaliter distantes : 
tibiis gracilibus, apice baud calcaratis : tar sis 4-articu- 
latis, art,*' l""", 2''° S'^^jue suba?qualibus, ult."'° elongato, 
clavato, unguiculis simplicibus sat magnis armato. 
Ohs. — Genus corpore subovali, gibboso, rugoso, setoso 
ct lutoso-squamoso, pedibus basi distantibus, tibiisque 
apice inarmatis, Tarphium prima facie simulans ; sed 
difFert antennis 10- (nee 11-) articulatis, capitulo so- 
lido, uni- (nee bi-) articulato, oculis (ut in gen. Tra- 
chypliolis, aut Tarphiodes^ setosis ac magis prominenti- 
bus, nccnon protliorace subtus simplici (nee pro antenna- 
rum reeeptione, inter otium, utrinque excavato). Cum 
genere Tracltypholis oculis setosis congruit, sed discedit, 
inter alia, corpore minore, antennis 10-articidatis, capitu- 
loque solido (nee biarticulato). Cum Paryplio (America; 
septentrionalis, sc. Columbia?) antennarum structura fere 
congruit, sed prothorace subtus simplici, palporumque 
maxillarium art.° ult.'"" baud securiformi, praster alia, 
difFert. A vl/eOSoj, falsus, et Tarphius. 
The foiu- specimens from wliicli tlie above stiiictural 
diagnosis has been compiled, and which were taken by 
Mr. G. Lewis in Ja])an, have much the prima facie 
aspect (in their gibbose, roughened, setose, and scaly sur- 
face, which is obscurely variegated, or in unrubbed ex- 
amples spotted, with cinereous scales) of a small Tar- 
phius ; nevertheless a careful inspection will shew that 
they recede altogether, in reality, from the members of 
that genus. Thus, their antennae, instead of being 11-, 
are only 10-jointed, Avith the club globular and solid, in- 
stead of biarticulate, — the eleventh joint being so com- 
pletely lost, or soldered to the penultimate one, as to form, 
along with it, a perfectly undivided mass. Their eyes, 
too, are promment and setose ; and their prothorax is 7iot 
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