40 Mr. T. Vernon Wollaston on the 
subtllissime alutaceis et dense punctatis, rosti-o brevissimo, 
crasso in medio profunde canalicnlato, oculis prominenti- 
bus, hoc cylindrico-ovato, convexo, in medio obsolete cari- 
nato ; elytris parallelis, paiilo picescentioribus, transversim 
rugulosis, subpunctato-sulcatis, interstitiis latiusculis con- 
vexis (prsesertim postice) et argute seriatim punctulatis ; 
antennis tarsisque incrassatis, rufesceiitioribus, illarum 
capitulo magno, rotundato, obscuriore, pubescenti ; tibiis 
anticis intus versus apicem fulvo-pubescentibus. Subtus 
convexus, dense sed leviter punctatus, necnon breviter 
fiilvo-pubescens. 
Long. Corp. lin. If. 
Captus prope Nagasaki, in ins. Kushiu, Aprili exeunte 
A.D. 1870, rarissime. 
In addition to the characters to which I have just called 
attention, the present somewhat Ui/lastes-lihe Cossonid 
may be fiu'ther known by its dark hue, and by its opake 
and closely, but not very coarsely, scidptured surface (the 
liead and prothorax of which are minutely alutaceous, as 
Avell as punctured), and by its elytral strife being deep, 
but rather hghtly punctured, mth the interstices broad in 
front, narrower and more convex behind, transversely 
rugulose, and branded w^ith a longitudinal row of very 
distinct punctules, — a type of sculpture A^-itli which we 
are very familiar in certain members of the Ilylcsinidce. 
Two examples of it were beaten by Mr. Lewis, " out of 
brushwood," near Nagasaki, in the island of Kushiu, on 
the 22nd of April, 1870. 
Genus 15. Stenoscelis. 
Wollaston, Journ. of Ent. i. 141 (1861). 
Corpus ovato - cylindricum, crassiusculum, calvum, 
grosse sculpturatum, postice etiam asperatum, Hylastcs 
aut -De7if/roc^onM5 prima facie simulans: c«/?2Ye subgloboso, 
crasso ; rostro brevissimo, subtriangulari, crasso ; scrohe 
fere nullo (antennis ad basin in impressione brevi mox 
ante medium oculi insertis) ; oculis magnis, rotundatis, 
sed omnino demissis : protliorace breviter subcylindrico- 
ovato, antice et postice truncato, i)one apicem transversim 
constricto : scutello minutissimo, punctiformi : metasteruo 
hand valde elongato : elytris ovato-cylindricis, postice 
obtuse desilientibus et asperatis : abdomiiiis segm.''* I'"" et 
