356 Mr. G. Lewis on new Japanese CoJeoptera. 



Keclclish brown, somewhat sliiniii^, elytra a little darker ; 

 the head uneven above and irregularly piinetnred ; the thorax 

 widest about the middle, uneven and punctured like the head, 

 impression behind the neek shallow, in one example almost 

 cftaced ; the hind angles are obtusely rectangular ; the 

 scutellum triangular, feebly arched at the sides, wholly sculp- 

 tured on surface, with a few punctures dispersed over it ; the 

 elytra are ovate, marginal interstice narrow and of even width 

 throughout ; stria? obscurely punctured, interstices densely 

 sculptured and feebly rugose or uneven. 



Hob. Ketoi. 



The sculpture noticed in these species is peculiar to the 

 genus ; when it is feeble it resembles the surface of tanned 

 leather, when dense and well-marked, as it is on the scutellum 

 of L. Snowi, it resembles the sculpture so familiar to ento- 

 mologists on the wing-cases of Agrili. 



Pteroloma discicolle, sp. n. 



Rufo-bruuneum, vix nitidum ; tliorace disco nigro, angiilis anticis 



promintntibus. 

 L. 4 mill. 



Reddish brown, somewhat shining ; epistoma and disk of 

 the thorax black or piceous ; the head im punctate but uneven; 

 thorax, thehind angles rectangular, sides feebly bowed, anterior 

 angles prominent, the thorax being cut out in front to receive 

 the head ; the disk is black and convex, the sides longitu- 

 dinally impressed and spread outwards; the scutellum trian- 

 gular and without sculpture ; the elytra, margin elevated, 

 marginal interstice narrow, the second and third stria? from 

 the outer margin join at the base, the striae are somewhat 

 fine and puuctulate ; the wing-cases are wader than the thorax 

 at the base, with a somewhat elliptical outline to the base. 



I have one example, evidently a variety, in which the 

 antenna, head, and legs are int'uscate. 



Uab. ^lain island. I took six or seven specimens from 

 under small stones on the summit of Nantaisan, 20th August, 

 1881. 



Palates striatipennisy sp. n. 



ObloD go-ova tus, nifo-brunneus, nitidus ; thorace conspicue punctato ; 



elvtris punctato-striatis. 

 L. 5|-G mill. 



Oblong-oval, reddish brown or piceous, but with the mar- 

 gin of the thorax and elytra paler ; the head sparsely punctu- 



