42 Mr. T. Vernon Wollaston on the 
being strongly suggestive, at first siglit, of sucli groups as 
Hylastes and Dendroctonus. In other respects it may be 
known by its bald, but coarsely sculptured, surface ; by 
its eyes being large, yet entirely sunken or depressed ; by 
its antennae being excessively short (more particularly as 
regards the scape, which projects very little beyond the 
lateral edge of the rostrum), with their first funiculus- 
joint large and transverse-quadrate, whilst the rest are 
very abbreviated, though increasing gradually (fi-om the 
excessively minute basal one) in breadth, and with their 
club rounded, solid, and abnipt ; by its metasternum and 
first abdominal segment being less elongated than is usual 
amongst the CossonidcB ; by even its hinder cox£e being 
but slightly separated ; by its legs being rather slender, 
with their tibial hooks elongate and powerflilly developed ; 
and by its tarsi being likewise much lengthened, but at 
the same time extremely thin, — with the basal and apical 
articulations comparatively long, the third one hardly at 
all expanded, but nevertheless minutely bilobed, and the 
claws very conspicuous. 
18. Stenoscelis gracilitarsis, n. sp. 
S. ovato-cylindricus, convexus, calvus, niger, subniti- 
dus ; capite rotundato, crasso, dense punctulato, punctis 
in rostro (brevissimo, subtriangulari) longitudinaliter sub- 
confluentibus, oculis omnino depressis ; prothorace breviter 
subcylindrico-ovato, pone medium ad latera rotundato- 
ampliato sed tamen ibidem sinuato, profunde et grosse 
(sed Aax densissime) punctate, paululum malleato-intequali ; 
elytris ovato-parallelis, vix picescentioribus, profunde et 
grosse crenato-striatis, interstitiis latis, costato-elevatis et 
minute seriatim punctulatis, necnon versus apicem (obtuse- 
desilientem) tuberculis pands parce asperatis, regione 
scutellari desiUente ; antennis tarsisque gracilibus, pices- 
centioribus, illis brevissimis, his elongatis. Subtus grosse 
punctatus. 
Long. Corp. lin. 1|. 
Captus (semel tantum) in pino quodam antiquo, Au- 
gusto A.D. 1870, ad Hiogo, in ins. Nipon. 
Although in its generic details unmistakeably identical 
with the Stenoscelis hylastoides, from St. Helena and the 
Cape of Good Hope, the present insect is a little blacker 
and less picesccnt than that species, its prothorax is not 
only more shining but very much more deeply and coarsely 
