36 Mr. G. Lewis on some 
Oval, rather depressed, brown, shining ; the head anteriorly 
impressed, punctate, punctures rather large but not closely 
set, stria strong and somewhat carinate, feebly sinuous over 
the eyes, anteriorly ceasing behind the mandibles; the thorax, 
anterior angles obtuse and depressed, strongly punctate, 
punctures oblong, with some inclined to be acicular, evenly, 
not closely set, stria laterally a little elevated, fine and com- 
plete behind the head, two short strie before the base at a 
point parallel to the usual position of the fourth elytral stria, 
the striz are faint but easily seen, and they are a good specific 
character in this difficult genus; the elytra wholly punctured 
somewhat like the thorax, but more distinctly, the punctures 
towards and at the apex are round, not oval or acicular like 
some in front ; the propygidium is punctured like the apices of 
the elytra; the pygidium in the male is punctured like the pro- 
pygidium at the base, but at the apex there are transverse fur- 
rows which are confluent with the punctures ; in the female the 
pygidium is sparsely and finely punctulate; the prosternum 
bistriate, striee nearly straight laterally, bent, but not quite 
joining at eitherend, a fewirregular punctures on the keel, ante- 
rior lobe punctate and strigose ; the mesosternum very sparsely 
punctured, lateral furrow strong, transverse stria with the 
middle portion very wide and straight, arcuate at the sides, 
suture not apparent; the metasternum, anterior half lghtly 
punctulate, posteriorly and the first segment of the abdomen 
with much larger punctures, all are more or less elongate 
or acicular; the other abdominal segments are smooth, with 
a row of punctures on their posterior edges; anterior tibiee 
4-dentate, tarsi rather short. 
Hab. Japan. Single specimens taken at Miyanoshita, 
Kiga, Kashiwagi, and Nara. 
Paromalus parallelepipedus, Herbst. 
Hab. Japan. Apparently scarce ; five examples only were 
taken at Sapporo, Miyanoshita, Nikko, and Nishimura. 
Paromalus omineus, sp. n. 
Oblongo-ovalis, parum convexus, lateribus vix parallelis, brun- 
neus, nitidus; fronte stria integra; metasterno utrinque sub- 
ocellato-punctato ; pedibus flavis. 
L. 14 mill. 
Oblong-oval, rather convex, brown, shining, antenne and 
legs flavous ; the head clearly and somewhat sparsely punctu- 
