neio genus of Colydiidce, from Jajian. 3 
scooped-oiit, on either side, beneath, for the reception of 
the antennae when thrown backward in a state of repose. 
In the fact of their eyes beino- studded with short bristles 
they agree with Tradiypholis ( = Tarphiodes, WolL), 
from the Malay peninsula and the islands of the Oriental 
archipelago ; but in that group, as well as in Tarphio- 
soma (from southern India and Ceylon), the antennas are 
11-jointed, and indeed nearly similar to those of Tar- 
phius* On the Avhole, they are perhaps (judging simply 
fi'om the published description) more nearly allied, at any 
rate as regards the construction of their antennae, to the 
South American Paryphus, — though even there the pro- 
thorax is stated to have grooves beneath it for the recep- 
tion of the antenna?, and the terminal joint of the maxil- 
lary palpi is said to be securiform. I have little doubt 
therefore that Mr. Lewis's Japanese insect constitutes the 
type of a well-marked and totally new genus, — belonging, 
I may add, to that particular section of the Colydiidce in 
which the first three joints of the feet are subequal, the 
tibife filiform and unarmed at their apex, and the whole of 
the legs widely separated at their base. In the details of 
its oral organs Pseudotarphius is almost coincident with 
Tarphius, Tarphiosoma and Tradiypholis; but I have 
had no opportunity of comparing them with those of 
Paryphus. 
* Although I have not been able to inspect a type, I think it is most 
probable that Motschoulsky's genus TarjjMsoma (Bull. Mosc. ii. 504), 
which was established in 1863 to receive two species from Ceylon and 
Timor, is identical with my I'arj^Jiiosofna, enunciated during the preceding 
year for the reception of an insect from Coimbatoor in southern India. 
Be this however as it may, I possess a Tarphiosoma (given to me some 
time ago by the late Dr. Schaum) from Ceylon, which is unquestionably 
distinct from the Malabar T. indicum. (to contain which I originally pro- 
posed the group) ; and this species, which is remarkable for its unicolorous, 
blackish-brown surface, and the excessively long and erect setaj with which 
it is sparingly studded, I will take the opportunity of thus briefly charac- 
terizing : — 
Tarphiosoma echinatum, n. sp. 
T. subovale, picco-nigrum, opacum, squamulis fulvo-brunneis plus minus 
tectum, setisque robustis, lougissirais, erectis brunneis parce obsitum; pro- 
thorace brevi, utrinque in medio valde rotnndato-explanato, antice angus- 
tato et profunde emarginato, angulis anticis acutissimis porrectis, ad basin 
leviter bisinuato; elytris convexis, gibbosis, subrotundatis, mox pone scu- 
tellum, utrinque versus humeros necnon disjuncte in disco, atque pone 
discum (quasi in fascia transversa valde fracta) breviter setoso-fasciculatis. 
— Long. Corp. liu. 2. 
CapUim in ins. Ceylon, a clariss. H. Schaum olim communicatum. 
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