1/2 [Januaiy, 



TlIALLESTUS EUFOMCTUS, 11. SJp. 



T. elli-pticuSj niger (aut piceo-niijer), dense et longe cinereo-puhescens ; protlwrace 

 pmfande et dense punctata, lined suh-marginali postice versus marginem gradatlm 

 currente ; eh/tris suh-convexis, profunde striato-pxmctatls, ad huineros plagu magnd 

 obliqud ntfd ornatis et postice gradatim ac plus minus vhscure rufo-suffusis ; antennis 

 pedihusque infuscate testaceis. Long. coip. lin. circa 1. 



Tlie rather larger size, and more convex and elliptical outline, of 

 this species, added to its longer pubescence and rather more deeply 

 sculptured surface, and the clear, oblique, red dash with which either 

 elytron is ornamented at the shoulder (the reddish apical portion 

 being more or less suffused, and comparatively ill-defined), will abun- 

 dantly distinguish it. Its sub-marginal prothoracic stria, also, is less 

 strictly parallel with the edge of the prothorax, it gradually approach- 

 ing the latter posteriorly. 



(To be continued). 



NOTES ON COLEOPTERA COMMON TO EUEOPE AND JAPAN. 

 BY GEORGE LEWIS. 



When the Memoirs now in hand on the Coleopterous Fauna of 

 Japan are published, our knowledge of the species of Nipon (the 

 name of the group of islands) will ii:>clude nearly 2000 ; and, at a 

 moderate computation, we may hope ultimately to see that number 

 doubled. Of the 2000, there will be original descriptions of about 

 1500 ; and, pending the issue of the various publications, it may be 

 of interest to note separately those species which are also cited in 

 De Marseul's ' Catalogus Coleopterorum Europae et Confinium." la 

 arranging this list, I have divided it into two sections ; placing first 

 those that are likely at times to be conveyed in merchandise, or to be 

 dispersed through human agencies, and closing with such as have 

 probably been diffused by more natural causes. An asterisk denotes 

 those either certainly or by repute British (G3 in number), and I have 

 indicated, as far as data permit, the rarity or abundance of the species 

 when in Japan, to show cither that each has reached the limit of its 

 range, or to suggest that it may have come from thence westward. 

 A t is affixed to species introduced either on the authority of single 

 examples, or with doubts which it would require a longer series to 

 remove. 



The proportion of Phytophagous insects is remarkable ; those of 

 Necrophagous habits are ten in number ; and the whole list extends 

 to 82. There arc evidences, as we sliould naturally anticipate, that 



