18 Mr. T. Vernon Wollaston on the 
ovato, antice et pra?sertim postice valclc truncato, distinctiiis 
seel hand dense pnnctato, postice in medio fovea rotiin- 
data le\'iter impresso ; elytris oblongo-ellipticis, basi late 
tnincatis, sat profimde piinctato-striatis, interstitiis latis, 
convexiusculis et parcissime minutissimeque (sub lente) 
punctulatis ; antennis clarioribus, capitulo magno pallidiore. 
Subtus paulo levius, et subremote punctatus, necnon minu- 
tissime pubescens. 
Long. Corp. lin. 1| — 2. 
Captus in ins. Awasima, jnxta ins. Nipon, a Dom. 
A. Adams, M.D., cujus in honorem nomen trivialc pro- 
posui. 
Apart from the features already pointed out, and which are 
principally structural ones, the present peculiar and some- 
what Ti/chiusASko. Cossonid may be know^n by its rather 
shining and brownish-piceous surface, — the prothorax of 
which is sharply, but not very deeply or closely, punctu- 
lated, whilst the punctures of its deep and '^^^de elytral 
stria3 are distinct and large. I have much pleasure in 
dedicating it to its discoverer, Dr. A. Adams, — through 
whose kindness I have received several examples, for in- 
spection, which have been transmitted to me by Mr. G. 
Lewis. 
c. Funiculus 1-art. . . . (Subfam. CossONlDES.) 
* Rostrum vel plus minus elongatum, vel breve. 
Genus 5. Pholidoforus (nov. gen.). 
Corpus angustulum, fusiformi-elongatum (sc. in medio 
parallelum, antice et postice attenuatum), sculpturatum, 
squamosum: rostro longiusculo, angustvdo, subtereti; scrobe 
profunda, curvata, longe infra oculum desiliente ; oculis 
parvis, rotundatis, prominentibus, longe ante marginem 
prothoracis sitis : prothorace elongato-ovato, antice et pos- 
tice tmncato : scutello subrotundato, distincto : metasterno 
elongate : elytris antice parallelis, postice acutiuscide pro- 
ductis. Antennce elongatae, graciles, mox ante medium 
rostri insertje; scapo recto, le^^ter clavato; funiculo 7-arti- 
culato, art." 1""° subquadrato-obconico (reliquis majore, sed 
vix magno), sequentibus longitudine subfequalibus, latitu- 
dine paulo crescentibus; capitulo sat magno, ovali, distincte 
annulato. Pedes clongati, antici ad basin parum approxi- 
mati, intermedii paulo dii&iaxiiiovQS, postici valde distantes: 
