264 Mr. G. Lewis on 



Narrow, parallel, black, with dull bluish tinge ; the head 

 very closely ocellate-punctate ; the thorax also extremely 

 closely punctured, median channel feeble, hind angles obtuse, 

 without a carina, slightly turning outwards; the elytra punc- 

 tate-striate, interstices very rugose, the rugosities obliterating 

 the punctures ; the antenna? slender, lax, black ; the legs 

 dusky, witli tlie knees and tibia? paler. 



Hab. Yuyama. Two male examples. 



Corymhites obscuripes^ sp. n. 



Angustatus, parallelus, brunneo-seneus, opacus ; thorace creberrime 

 ocellato-punctato, angulis divaricatis, haud carinat.is ; elytris 

 subbrunneis, interstitiis rugosis ; antennis subelongatis, nigris ; 

 pedibus obscure brunneis. 



L. 8 miU. 



Narrow, very similar (except in colour) to C. ferruginei- 

 pennis. The head and thorax obscurely teneous, very densely 

 punctate, punctures ocellate, hind angles of latter distinctly 

 turning outwards, without a carina, median canaliculation 

 feeble, angles brownish ; the elytra brown, with a brassy 

 tinge, interstices punctulate and rugose, striae punctate, fine 

 and even ; the antennse black, rather long, serrate, and joints 

 lax, especially in male. 



Hah. Miyanoshita. Four specimens. 



Ludius mponensis, sp. n. 



Latiis, niger, uitidus, pube nigra ; thorace confertim punctate, linea 

 in medio la)vi ; elytris tenuiter striatis, interstitiis confertim 

 punctatis : antennis pcdibustjue nigris. 



L. 20-22 mill. 



Broad and robust, black, three basal joints of antenna 

 sometimes pitchy red, palpi and claws pale ; the head some- 

 what uneven, coarsely punctured, with an impression more or 

 less distinct between the eyes ; the thorax narrowest in front, 

 rounded off behind the anterior angles, then slightly and 

 gradually widening to the base, closely and evenly punctured, 

 with narrow smooth line down the centre ; the scutellum 

 oblong, depressed anteriorly, sculptured like the interstices o( 

 the elytra; the elytra, stria? uniformly not deeply impressed 

 nor visibly punctate, interstices closely punctured, with a 

 somewhat imbricated surface sculpture, and sliglitly convex, 

 base excavated round the scutellum. 



The prosternal notch in the jiosterior process oi the keel is 

 very conspicuous. The species is more robust than L, abruj^tuHf 



