118 Mr. David Sharp on the 



projecting backwards, moderately distant from one an- 

 other. 



The above imcomplete characters are all I am able to 

 see iu the single specimen of this minnte Pselaphid: they 

 seem, however, quite sufficient to justify the establishment 

 of a distinct genus for it, the place of which may be for 

 the present between Bri/axis and Trichonyx. I have quite 

 failed to get any view of the palpi ; and have not obtained 

 a very satisfactory one of the unguicnli, but I think I am 

 right in saying that these are two in number, and equal, 

 at any rate, on the intermediate feet. 



15. Morana discedens, n. sp. Castanea, nitida, sub- 

 glabra, antennis pedibusque testaceis, elytris rufescentibus ; 

 tibiis, prtesertim posticis, evidenter curvatis. Long. I lin. 



This curious insect looks at first sight like the front parts 

 of an Euplectus, with the hind body of a Bryaxis attached. 

 The antennjB are shorter than the head and thorax, the 

 basal joint moderately long, but extremely stout, the 2nd 

 joint peculiarly elongate, cylindric, rather stouter than the 

 following ones ; joints 3 — 9 small, differing little from one 

 another; 10th joint transverse, much broader than the 9th 

 joint, but very small in comparison with the 1 1th joint, which 

 is very large, stout, and pointed, about as long as the four 

 preceding together. Head, subtriangidar, with the eyes 

 about as broad as the thorax, the front over the mouth 

 acuminate and elevated ; it is acutely elevated on each side 

 over the insertion of antennas, and much depressed between 

 these; the vertex convex, smooth and shining. Thorax 

 much narrower than the elytra, rather strongly transverse, 

 distinctly narrowed behind,' impunctate, uneven at the base 

 in consequence of some deep but obscure depression, and 

 with a fovea on each side close to the margin and near the 

 base. Elytra rather short in proj^ortion" to their width, 

 but longer than the thorax, shining red, impunctate, with 

 a strongly marked sutural stria, without a middle stria, 

 l)ut with a fovea at the base in the middle. Legs rather 

 shoi-t, the tibire thin at the base, dilated at the extremity ; 

 the hmd pair larger than the others, and strongly curved 

 inwards towards their extremitv. 



A single specimen. Nagasaki. 



16. Br7/axisprinceps,n.f^p. Rufescens, nitidus, pube 

 tenui parcius vestitus; vertice profunde bifoveolato; pro- 

 thorace trifoveolato, fo^'eolis linea arcuata connexis; ely- 



