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subcordato, ^quali: pygidio iiudo, tul^crculo magno in- 

 structo ; niesosterno ecarinato. Loiiir. vix '4- lin. 



Antenna3 yelloAv, about as long as head and thorax ; 1st 

 joint longer than 2nd, joints 3, 4 and 5 differing little from 

 one another, each longer than broad ; 6,7 and 8 small, 

 similar to one another; 9, 10 and 11 forming a slender 

 elongate club; 9th and 10th joints slightly transverse; 

 11th joint rather large, not quite so long as the two pre- 

 ceding together. Head subquadrate, truncate behind. 

 Aery finely punctured, narrower than the thorax. Thorax 

 narroAAer than the elytra, longer than broad, narroAved 

 behind, densely and distinctly punctured so as to be quite 

 dull, and extremely finely pubescent, without impressions 

 or eleA'ations. After-body rather narroAv and elongate. 

 The elytra distinctly (but more finely than the thorax) 

 ])unctured and clothed AAdth a fine depressed pubescence, 

 Avith a Acry obsolete humeral impression. The pygidium 

 is largely exposed, and bears a large tubercle, Avhich is a 

 little curved upwards. The mesosternum is without keel ; 

 the metasternum rather long ; and the posterior tro- 

 chanters are rather elongate. 



A single specimen. Tagami, Nagasaki. 



OA.?.— This remarkable little insect has someAvhat the 

 facies of a small Anthiciis ; if submitted to a complete 

 examination it Avould probably offer the characters of a 

 new genus. I am uncertain as to its sex : the front tarsi 

 are scarcely at all dilated, so that I have not called it a 

 Eumicrus, though, if the specimen should be a female, it 

 Avould by its characters belong to that genus, rather than 

 to Scydmanus. 



TRANS. ENT. SUC. 1874.— PART I. (FEB.) 



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