62 ME. DAVID SHAEP ON 



This species is allied to E. exsculptus, but has abundant points 

 of specific distinction. The thorax is lobed in the middle in 

 front, deeply emarginate on either side above the eye, so that 

 the front angles appear very prominent ; its margins are very 

 ragged, but the serrations do not extend to the base, the rough 

 margin ceasing in front of the narrow basal portion, so as to give 

 space for the movement of the front legs ; the surface exhibits 

 also two irregular, not mucli elevated, coatse. The elytra bear 

 numerous coarse rough tubercles, each surmounted by a seta, 

 and between the tubercles numerous smaller asperities, and there 

 are a few oblong, depressed, smooth spaces ; the side margins 

 bear numerous elongate denticles, each terminated by a seta. 

 The tibiae are rather broad, compressed, their outer margin armed 

 with scales that are scarcely prominent. The surface has always 

 the sculpture more or less obscured by a coating of some exuda- 

 tion or incrustation, but the description is drawn from a speci- 

 men from which this lias been removed. 



Hitoyoshi, Tuyama, Idzu, Miyanoshita, and Kurigahara. 



STMPAisroTus, nov. gen. 



Corpus oblongum; caput parum receptum; antennae ll-articulatse, 

 articulo basali subcondito, clava parum abrupte biarticulata. Tibiae 

 lineares, ecalcaratse, tarsi articulis tribus basalibus subsequalibus. Meta- 

 sternum elongatum. 



Although evidently near to EndopTiloeus in its characters, this 

 will, I think, prove to be a quite distinct genus, the tibiee being 

 slender, not at all compressed, and the sculpture and clothing, as 

 well as the form of the various parts, all different from what ob- 

 tains in Endopliloeus. The eyes are prominent, and the groove for 

 the base of the antenna so short that it may be said to be absent ; 

 the apex of the mandible is divided ; the prosternal process pro- 

 longed a little behind the coxse ; all the coxse only slightly sejDa- 

 rated ; the first ventral segment in the middle longer than the 

 following one, but behind the coxse rather shorter than it. 



Stmpakottis picttjs, n. sp, (Plate III. fig. 2.) 

 Oblongus, subparallelus, nigro-fuscus ; prothorace transversim sub- 

 quadrato, angulis anterioribus rectis, marginibus integris ; superne breviter 

 sparse flavo-setulosus, in elytris guttulis parvulis albidis ornatus. Long. 

 4|-5| millim. 



Antennae pitchy black, first and second joints subequal, ex- 

 tremity of the first visible from above, third joint rather longer than 



