382 Mr. G. Lewis on 



Opatrum villigerum (Blanch.). 



Opatrum vdligei-um, Blanch. Voy. Pole-Sud, iv. p. 154, t. x. fig. 15. 

 Mesomorphus villiger, Miedel, "Ueutsch. ent. Zeitschr. 1880, p. 40 ; 

 Fairm. Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg. 1894, p. 20. 



This species was originally described from Australia, where 

 Mr. J. J. Walker has also recently found it. I have met 

 with it in Ceylon. 



Hab. Kob^. I found three examples on the sandy sea- 

 beach. 



Idisia ornata, Paso. 



Pascoe records this species from Mantchuria, but I think 

 this locality should be received with caution, as the captor. 

 Dr. Adams, did not label his captures, to say the least, 

 systematically, and he collected during the same voyage on 

 the west coast of Japan. 



Hab. Enoshima and Niigata. Abundant on the sand-hills. 



Phaleria Riederi (Fald.). 



Diaperis Riederi, Fald. Bull. Mosc. 1833, p. 57, t. iii. fig. 8 ; Lew. Ent. 

 1893, p. 151 (for sjaiononiy see list). 



Phaleria subkumeraliSj Mars. 



Hab. Hakodate. Abundant on the sand-hills surrounding 

 the harbour. 



Epiphaleria, gen. nov, 



I propose this genus to receive some eastern species that it 

 does not seem desirable to retain in Phaleria. The species 

 differ from Phaleria (type P. cadaverina, F.) in having a 

 small h'ead, large eyes, which approach each other on the 

 underside of the head ; the niesosternum is a broad plate, 

 as broad in the middle as half its width, widely separating 

 the posterior and intermediate coxai; the second and third 

 joints of the tarsi in the males are scarcely dilated and the 

 tilth joint of the antenna is nearly as large as the sixth. 

 The outline of the body is an elongate oval. Tlie underside 

 of the type, E. atriceps, is given in woodcut, tig. 1. Phaleria 

 pusilla, Boh., from Hong Kong, belongs to this genus, and 

 there are two species found in Ceylon. 



