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tured ; elytra moderately long, very much broader than the prothorai, the sides 

 parallel at the base and converging from about the middle, the surface closely and 

 coarsely punctured throughout, the base a little swollen on either side of the scu- 

 tellum ; beneath piceous and thickly pubescent ; legs piceous, the knees and coxse 

 lighter, the tarsi (the basal joint of the hind pair excepted) testaceous ; the femora 

 slender, the hind pair stouter in the male. 



(? . Anterior tibiae armed with a very long sharp tooth at the inner apical angle, 

 and slightly curved ; intermediate tibia; sinuously curved and very broadly dilated, 

 convex without and concave witliin, the outer edge gradually widened out into a 

 broad and acute triangular tooth, the tooth followed by a very deep and abrupt 

 semicircular emargination, the inner edge deeply and abruptly sinuate-emarginate 

 at the middle ; the hind femora thickened and dilated, and with a pouch-like groove 

 on the inner edge extending almost from the base to the apex, the edges of this 

 groove being densely fringed with very short fulvous hairs ; the hind tibife curved 

 in their basal fourth and thence to the apex straight. 



? . Hind tibiae straight, with a matted spine-like tuft of fulvous hairs on the 

 upper-side at the extreme apex ; the four anterior tibiae siniple ; the antennae a little 

 shorter than in the male. Length, 3 mm. ( J ? ). 



Hah. : Japan, Nikko and Kobe. 



Three examples, two females and one male, of this interesting 

 Bpecies were captured by Mr. Gr. Lewis, the two former at Kobe in 

 June, 1881, and the latter at Nikko on June 8th, 1880. In the 

 peculiarly distorted shape of the intermediate tibiae in the male 

 it differs from all others of the genus yet described. X. dlstortus is 

 very much larger than either of the previously described Japanese 

 species. 



Xtlophilus japonicits, n. sp. 

 Black, the elytra with a large spot at each shoulder and the apical fourth 

 reddish-testaceous, the upper-surface clothed with rather coarse, decumbent, ashy 

 pubescence. Head short and broad, closely and rather coarsely punctured ; eyes 

 large, coarsely granulated, somewhat widely separated, the head very narrowly ex- 

 tended on either side behind them ; palpi testaceous ; antennae ( cJ ) moderately 

 stout, filiform, joint 3 one-half longer than 2, 3 and 4 subequal, 5 — 8 shorter 

 than 4, 9 and 10 about as broad as long, 11 obliquely truncate and acuminate, 

 piceous, the tip of the last joint ferruginous ; prothorax narrower than the head, 

 broader than long, the sides parallel behind and a little rounded in front, the surface 

 dense! V and rather coarsely punctured ; elytra parallel in their basal half, considerably 

 broader than the prothorax, coarsely and closely punctured throughout ; legs mode- 

 rately stout, flavo-testaceous, the tips of the four anterior femora and the posterior 

 femora and posterior tibite (except at their base) piceous ; posterior femora stout 

 and clavate, and the anterior tibiae slightly curved and with a short tooth at tlie 

 inner apical angle, in the male. Length, 2 mm. ( (J). 



Hah. : Japan, Hitoyoshi. 



One male example captured by Mr. G. Lewis on May 8th, 1881. 



