108 Mr. G. Lewis on 
raceque parum dense punctatis; elytris vage punctato-striatis, 
interstitiis tenuiter rugoso-punctulatis. 
L. 43-6} mill. 
Pitchy brown; antenne and legs less dark, with tawny 
pubescence; the head somewhat densely punctate, not con- 
vex between the eyes; eyes large in male, smaller and further 
apart in female; the thorax a little more densely punctate 
than the head, anterior rim smooth and elevated, widest before 
the posterior angles, compressed behind the eyes, bisinuous at 
the base ; the scutellum cordiform, with a marginal fovea at 
the base; the elytra punctate-striate near the suture, but not 
distinctly so, outer strie more vague and 5 to 6 are striate- 
punctate ; the antenne, ¢ joints 5 to 10 widen out inwardly 
at their apices, g¢ 4 to 10 are very strongly pectinate, the 
processes are longer than the joints and are inserted in their 
bases ; the legs dull brown, posterior femora with one long 
spine and a short one at the tarsal end. 
Some of the characters given are generic, but they will 
help to enable the Japanese student to recognize the species. 
I found three species of Ptilodactyla in Ceylon, and one is 
recorded from Java. In the Munich Catalogue the names 
of twenty-five American species are given. 
Hab. Nagasaki, Fukushima, Oiwake, and Nara. Beaten 
from the dead branches of trees, 
Malacodermide. 
TELEPHORINI. 
Podabrus Heyden, Kies. 
Podabrus Heydent, Kies. Deutsche ent. Zeit. xxiii. p. 806 (1879). 
Podabrus Reinit, Heyd. 1. c. p. 851; Lew. Ent. xxvi. p. 151 (1898). 
Heyden has kindly allowed me to see the type of his 
species, which agrees precisely with the type of P. Heydeni, 
Kiesenwetter, returned to me. I have an example which is 
almost wholly black and two examples received from Herr 
Hiller with the elytra wholly cinereous; these last are 
labelled P. Hiller’, Kies., in Kiesenwetter’s handwriting. 
Hab. Yuyama, Miyanoshita, Nikko, and Suyama. 
Podabrus temporalis, Harold. 
Podabrus temporalis, Harold, Deutsche ent. Zeit. p. 73 (1878). 
Hab. Miyanoshita, Yokohama, Tokio, Nikko, and Sapporo, 
Apparently common, 
