32 Mr. G. Lewis on some 
are wanting) ; the joints from the sixth are somewhat angular 
at the inner apex. ‘The abdomen is rather broadly truncate 
at the apex, with a dense fringe of fulvous hairs coming fro.n 
between the dorsal and ventral segments. 
The following species appearing under Créodion in the 
Munich Catalogue will be better placed in Xestéa. Their 
tibize are unarmed at the outer apex, their femora are simple, 
and their intermediate cotyloid cavities are either partly or 
wholly closed in on the outside. 
X. annulipes, Buq. 
X. bivittata, Bug. (=suturalis, Perty (Stenschorus), 
Delect. An. p. 99, pl. xvitt. fiz. 5). 
X. corvina, Germ. 
X. dorsalis, Thoms. 
X. pictipes, Newm. 
The same remarks will, perhaps, apply to other species. 
IV.—On some Japanese Species of Paromatus. 
By GeEorce Lewis, F.L.S. 
Tue Micro-Coleoptera of China, like those of our Indian 
possessions, are almost wholly unknown; no Chinese species 
of Paromalus has been described, and the only example known 
to me is one I captured in a rotten stem of a decaying Celtls 
in Hong Kong in the winter of 1880. It remains therefore a 
matter of speculation whether any or all of the species here 
recorded from Japan occur or not on the adjacent continent, 
although it is exceedingly probable some of them do. ‘I'wo 
at least of the species have a wide distribution, as they are 
well-known European insects, and their names are, I believe, 
also in the lists of the Siberian Coleoptera. 
List of Species. 
Paromalus complanatus, Panz. Paromalus tardipes. 
mendicus. parallelepipedus, 7Zer)sf. 
viaticus. —— omineus. 
— fujisanus. —— musculus, Mars. 
vernalis. 
montivagus, 
