Mr. G. Lewis on a new Beetle from Japan. 



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being equal to one third of the wliole hreadth ; tlie elytra 

 straii^iit at the base, but otherwise completely oval in outline, 

 sides niueh dilated and formed, espeeially in the epipleurse 

 like Silpha atrata, L. ; viewed from beneath they are widest 

 behind the humeral angle, and behind the posterior coxEe the 

 marginal expansion narrows and gradually ceases before the 

 apex. The legs are slender and doubtless vary in structure 

 in the sexes. 



Camioleum loripes^ sp. n. 



Alutacenm, parum iiitidum, dcprossum ; elytris ovatis hand abbre- 



virttis, striato-punctatis, marginiditer dilatutis. 

 L. 4 mill. 



Alutaceous ; disks of the head, tliorax, and dorsum, with 

 five terminal joints of the antenna}, darker ; the antennaj are 

 slender, with tlie joints relatively longer than in Oloj>hru7n 

 simplex^ Sh. (to compare them with a very common Japanese 

 species), but otherwise the structure of tlie articulations is 

 sira.lar; the head uneven between 

 the eyes, with irregular and scat- 

 tered punctures ; punctures smaller 

 and fewer between the antennas ; 

 epistonia smooth ; the thorax mar- 

 gined on all sides with a faint stria, 

 anterior margin bisinuous ; angles 

 rounded off, with the edge beiiind 

 them feebly crenulate, posterior angles 

 rectangular, sides dilated and slightly 

 narrowed behind, punctured some- 

 Avhat more coarsely than the head, 

 surface uneven, with a fovea before 

 the scutellum and two others, less 

 distinct, placed longitudinally on each 

 side of it near the margin (or they are merged in one, as in 

 the figure) ; the scutellum triangular, with a few small 

 punctures; the elytra complete, dilated along the outer cd/Tcs 

 ovate, except at the base ; dorsal area striate-punctate, sutural 

 row cf punctures and those next to it most distinct, outside 

 the fifth row the punctures become denser and lose their linear 

 arrangement ; the basal segments of the abdomen are infus- 

 cate. Male: anterior and intermediate tibite widely bent • 

 in the anterior jjair the inner edge of the tibia is swollen and 

 somewhat angular at the point where the bending ceases. 

 JIah. Main Island, near Kashiwagi, lOtii June, 1881. 

 I found two males under some marsh-refuse ; the female is 

 not known to me. 



