THE 



TRANSACTIONS 



ENTOMOLOGICA.L SOCIETY 



LONDON 



FOR THE YEAR 1876. 



I. Additions to the list of Geodephagous Coleoptera of 

 Japan, with synonymic and other remarks. By 

 H. W. Bates, F.L.S. 



[Read 5th January, 1876.] 



Since the publication of my paper on the Geodephagous 

 Coleoptera of Japan, in the Transactions of the Society 

 for 1«73, Part III., a number of genera and species 

 belonging to the group treated of have been added to oiu- 

 knowledge of the Fauna. In drawing up a list of these 

 I have availed myself of the opportunity of making 

 various corrections and s^Tionymical remarks. The ac- 

 companying Plate refers to some of the more important 

 new species described in the former paper. 



Notiophilus impressifrons (Mor.), Putz. Ann. Soc. Ent. 

 Belg. t. xviii. p. 10. 



North of Nipon. The name impressifrons is pre- 

 occupied by Chaudoir, 1842. 



Carabus DeHaanii (Chaud.) Thomson, in his Opus- 

 cula Entomologica, Fascic. vii. p. 728, describes a C. 

 japonicus (Mots.), which appears to be the same as this 

 species, judging from the words, " subcEeruleus, elytris 

 catenis4; . . . tibiis anticis simplicibus." But how this 

 learned entomologist arrives at the conclusion that his 



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