Geodephagous Coleoptera of Japan. 3 



Leistus laticollis, Moraw. Mel. biol. iv. 197, No. 15, 

 Putzeys, 1. c. 



Nebria Lewisii, Bates, Entom. Monthly Mag. vol. xi. 

 p. 22. 

 Kawatchi. 



Clivina Parryi, Putz. ^^ C. lata (Putz.), Bates, Tr. Ent. 

 Soc. 1873, p. 238. 



I failed to see any difference between the Japanese 

 insect and an authentic example of C. lata, but the greater 

 experience of M. Putzeys has decided that it is not that 

 species. 



Tachycellus falsus. 



Harpalus IcBvicollis, Bates, 1. c. p. 261 (nee Dufts.) 



Harpalo IcBvicolli Dufts. simillima; paulo convexior, 

 piceus, antennis totis pedibusque fulvis ; capitis foveis 

 frontalibus sulciformibus utrinque usque ad oculi mar- 

 ginem extensis. 



This species, which Morawitz, apparently, as well as 

 myself, mistook, on account of its great similarity, for the 

 H. IcBvicollis of Eiu-ope, I find on closer examination to 

 be quite distinct and not to belong to the genus. It has, 

 in fact, the oblique frontal sulci or sharply impressed lines 

 of Bradycellus and the allied genera, and agrees in all 

 essential points with Tachycellus. The basal ventral 

 segment of the $ has not the pubescent fovea of the males 

 of Tachycellus, but it has a rudimentary impression in 

 the same position. 



I do not adopt the name rucjicollis, Motsch., for the 

 species, as Von Harold, in his notes on Japanese 

 Coleoptera ( Abhandl. Nat. Ver. Bremen, iv. 1875, p. 285), 

 assures us it belongs to H.japonicus, Moraw. 



Oxycentrus Argutoi'o'ides, Harpalus id.. Bates, 1. c. p. 261. 

 (Plate I. fig. 3.) 



This curious species belongs to the genus Oxycentrus, 

 Chaud. (Bull. Mosc. 1854, ii. p. 345), of which the only 

 described species, O. parallelus, from Northern India, is 

 very distinct from the Japanese one. I have two others, 

 from Rangoon and Borneo ;* the genus, therefore, appears 



* Oxycentrus angustus $ . Angustus, parallelogrammicus, piceo-niger, 

 nitidus; palpis, maxillis, antennis et pedibus piceo-riafis ; thorace quadrato, 



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