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the tibiEe being armed at their inner apex with an evident 
minute spinule ; whilst in the P. cuvirostre the tibiffi have 
their inner angle almost simple, and the second articula- 
tion of the funiculus appreciably a little elongated and 
obconic. Moreover in the first of the species the body is 
very minute and fusiform, whereas that of the second is 
comparatively large, and more depressed and parallel. 
Yet these discrepancies ai'C very likely, after all, no more 
than specific ones. 
a. Corpus minutum; scutello distincto ; antennis gracili- 
hiis, funiculi a.rt.° 2^*° sequentibus non longiore; 
tibiis ad apicem internum in spinulam parvam pro- 
ductis. 
8. Phloeophagosoma minutum, n. sp. 
P. elongatum, ovato-fusiforme, gracile, angustulum, 
subnitidum, piceum; rostro elongato, angustulo, tereti, 
subcurvato, versus apicem rufescentiore, magis polito ac 
minute parceque punctulato, oculis demissis; prothorace 
elongato-ovato, antice posticeque truncato, convexo, sat 
grosse sed leviter punctato ; elytris elongate subcylindrico- 
ovatis basi truncatis, pi'ofimde et confertim sulcato-punc- 
tatis (aut forsan crenatis), interstitiis costato-elevatis et 
subrugulosis, ante apicem conspicue constrictis; antennis 
pedibusque clare rufo-piceis (aut fere piceo-ferrugineis), 
illarum capitulo pallidiore. Subtus subparce punctatum, 
punctis vix profundis. 
Long. corp. lin. cii'ca 1^. 
Captum ad radices graminis, per oram arenosam mari- 
timam', ad Simabara, in ins. Kushiu. 
Apart from its characters of comparatively minute size, 
narrow, fusiform outline, rather elongate rostrum, and 
deeply sculptured, convex upper surface, the present in- 
teresting little Cossonid may be further known by its 
piceous hue and brightly rufescent limbs, as well as by 
its (elongate-ovate) prothorax being almost unconstricted 
behind the apex, and by its eyes being hardly at all promi- 
nent. It is the smallest member of the family which was 
brought by Mr. Lewis from Japan. Six examples of it 
are now before me, which Mr. Lewis states were captured 
by a native collector, at the roots of a wild grass, on the 
sandy coast of Simabara, in the island of Kushiu. 
