120 Mr. G. Lewis on 
the form somewhat differing in different specimens; the 
antenne and legs coloured like the body, claws alone palish. 
Hab. Kashiwagi, on Mount Omine, and near the Iken- 
chaiya. Seven examples. 
XERASIA, gen. nov. 
I propose this name for an insect which cannot be placed in 
Melyris; but the characters are not widely different. The 
general structure of the body and appendages agree, but the 
outline, both of the body and the antenna, as seen in the 
figure, prevent its inclusion in Melyris. The tarsi are short, 
but the joints which bear the claws are very large, as in 
Melyris ; the elytra are without stria, and the three apical 
joints only of the antenne are enlarged. 
Xerasia variegata, sp.n. (Pl. VI. fig. 12.) 
Brunnea, nitida, griseo-pubescens; capite thoraceque punctatis ; 
elytris griseo-variegatis ; palpis infuscatis. 
L. 5 mill. 
Brown, shining, clothed with grey pubescence; the head 
somewhat irregularly punctured, eyes rather small, somewhat 
coarsely faceted, neck scarcely narrowed ; palpi, three apical 
joints nearly the same size, infuscate; antenne, first and 
second joints stout, second rather smaller than the first, third 
longer than the second but less robust, fourth to the seventh 
about the same size, eighth smaller, ninth and tenth widened 
out, terminal of the same size as the tenth but conical; the 
thorax, anterior angles obtuse, inconspicuous, posterior angles 
gradually rounded off, external rim entire but very fine, 
punctured, punctures finer than those of the head and more 
evenly set; the elytra without strie, variegated with grey 
markings, the transverse marking before the apex being 
indistinctly dentate-sinuate; the legs and antenne wholly 
brown. 
Hab. Hitoyoshi. Taken in the forest of Okama on a 
mountain of considerable elevation, 8th May, 1881. One 
example. 
List of Species, with Synonymy. 
DAscILLip™. Epilichas brunneicornis, 
Paralichas pectinatus. atricolor. 
Odontonyx pectinata, Kies, Bee 
higoniee. oes j Drupeus letabilis. 
Fpilichas flabellatus. vittipennis, 
brevis, 
Octoglossa flabellata, Aves. 
