1885.] PHYTOPHAGOUS COLEOPTERA OF JAPAN. 725 



in the colour of the antennae and legs, and also in the rugosely- 

 punctured thorax. The colour of the latter and that of the head 

 separates the species from L. hirtus, Baly. 



LiPRUs sxjTURALis, sp. nov. 



Pale fulvous ; thorax distinctly punctured ; elytra deeply punctate- 

 striate, the interstices costate, fulvous ; the sutural margin abbreviated 

 near the apex, black, the costse with yellowish rather long and stiff 

 hairs. 



Length 1 line. 



Fukushima. A single specimen. 



Rather smaller than the smallest specimens of L. Jiirfus and L. 

 nigritus, with which the present species cannot be confounded on 

 account of the strongly raised elytral costse and their narrow black 

 sutural margin. The antennae also are shorter, and the thorax 

 seems less transverse and more elongate. It may be, however, that 

 L. suturalis is only a small and differently coloured variety of L. 

 nigritus. 



LiPRUs MiNUTUs, sp. nov. 



Pale testaceous, finely pubescent ; thorax rugose-punctate ; elytra 

 punctate-striate, the interstices costate, testaceous, a spot behind* the 

 middle of each elytron piceous. 



Length f line. 



Head impunctate, the frontal tubercles obsolete. Antennee 

 closely approached, testaceous, two thirds the length of the body ; 

 the second joint as thick as the first, but less than half its length, 

 the two following joints scarcely longer but much thinner, the rest 

 gradually but slightly thickened. Thorax subquadrate, one half 

 broader than long, the sides perfectly straight or a little concave 

 near the base ; tlie basilar sulcation rather obsolete and siuuate, 

 extending to the sides, the surface rugose-punctate. Elytra rather 

 convex, costate throughout, the interstices deeply punctate-striate, 

 furnished with single erect testaceous hairs ; behind the middle a 

 transversely shaped or rounded piceous spot is placed. Posterior 

 femora short, not extending to the apices of the elytra, their tibi* 

 with a spine; the first joint of the posterior tarsi as long as the two 

 following joints together. 



Nagasaki or neighbourhood. 



Although the shape of this species, of which Mr. Lewis obtained 

 two specimens, differs from L. hirtus in being less elongate, that of 

 the thorax and its groove as well as the state of the coxal' cavities 

 agrees with the genus ; the costate and pubescent elytra, as well as 

 the deflexed sides of the latter, are other characters which the species 

 has in common with Liprus. 



I may remark here that the species of Liprus lately described by 

 myself in the ' Annals of the Genoa Museum ' from Sumatra, although 

 agreeing in most respects with the genus, differs from the other 

 species of the present genus in the shape of the thorax, which is 

 that of a species of Lema. 



