32 Mr. G. Lewis on some 



are wanting) ; tlie joints from tlie sixth are simcwliat 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 Criodion in the 

 Munich Catalogue will be better placed in Xestia. Thiir 

 tibiai 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, Baq. ( = suturnlis, Perty {Slenochorui) , 

 Delect. An. p. 90, pi. xviii. tig. 5). 



X. corvinaj Germ. 

 X. dorsalisj Thorns. 

 X. pictipes, Newm. 



The same remarks will, perhaps, apply to othn- spjcies. 



IV, — On some Japanese Species o/'Paromalus. 

 By George Lewis, F.L.S. 



The Micro-Coleoptera of China, like those of our Indian 

 possessions, are almost wholly unknown ; no Ciiinese species 

 oi Paromalus has been described, and the only example known 

 to me is one I captured in a rotten stem of a decaying Galtis 

 in Hong Kong in the winter of ISSO. 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. Two 

 at least of the species have a wide distribution, as they are 

 well-known Euro])can insects, and their names are, I believe, 

 also in the lists of the Siberian Coleoptera. 



List of Species. 



Paromalus coinplauatus, Paiiz. Paromalus tardipos. 



mendicus. pnralliK'pipedus, llerhat. 



viaticus. omiiieus. 



fujibaiuis. inusculus, Mars. 



vernalis. moutiva^'U3. 



