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(especially the latter) are appreciably longer. Its femora 
also (at any rate the anterior pair) are, proportionately, 
not quite so clavate. 
7. Exodema sublutosa, n. sp. 
E. parallelo-subfusiformis, piceo-nigra, opaca, parce 
injequaliter subcinereo-squamoso-lutosa ; capite protho- 
raceque profunde, rugose et confertim punctatis (punctis 
in hoc grossis), oculis subprominulis ; prothorace mox 
pone apicem transversim constricto ; elytris profunde, con- 
fertim et grosse punctato-sulcatis, interstitiis dense trans- 
versim rugulosis, costatis, ac (oculo fortissime armato) 
minutissime et vix perspicue seriatim setulosis ; antennis 
pedibusque rufescentioribus, capitulo magno, pallidiore, 
tarsis longiusculis. Subtus profunde et grosse punctata. 
Long. corp. lin. If. 
Caj)ta cum specie praecedenti ad Hiogo in ins. Nipon, 
hactenus unica. 
Apart from the characters above enumerated, the pre- 
sent insect differs from the Coprodema calandrcBformis 
(which prima facie it very closely resembles) in being a 
trifle larger and more parallel, and in its elytral inter- 
stices being less sharply costate and more transversely- 
rugulose. The single example from which the diagnosis 
has been compiled is also a little more piceous in hue, and 
not quite so densely besmeared with mud-lil^e scales ; but 
this may be merely accidental. It was mixed-up with 
Mr. Lewis's specimens of the Coprodema calandrcefoi-mis 
(captured at Hiogo, in the island of Nipon), and from 
which indeed I did not at first sight distinguish it. 
Genus 8. Phlceophagosoma (nov. gen.). 
Corpus angustulum, elongatum, plus minus lineari- 
fusiforme, calvum, profunde sculpturatum : rostro elon- 
gato, angustulo, tereti, arcuato; scrobe profunda, cur- 
vata, infra oculum desiliente; oculis longe ante marginem 
prothoracis sitis, plus minus demissis: prothorace elon- 
gato-ovato, antice et postice truncato, fere integro (i.e. 
pone apicem vix constricto); scutello rotundato, valde 
distincto: metasterno elongato: elytris elongatis, nunc 
ovato-subcylindricis, nunc subcylindricis. AntenncB elon- 
gatas, in medio rostri insert^e; scapo subrecto, leviter 
clavato; funiculo 7-articulato, art." I"'" subquadrato-ob- 
conico (reliquis majore, sed vix magno), sequentibus 
