Coleopfera of Japan. 49 



Apoderiis pavdalis. 



Aixxler us pardalis,Y ollenh., Tijd. Dierkunde, ii., 1865, 



p. 164.* 

 A. tigrinus, Roelofs, Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg., xvii., 



p. 136. 



This species, like so many others of the genus, varies 

 greatly in colour ; the black spots of the upper surface 

 extend and coalesce, so that it becomes nearly all black ; 

 the lower surface also varies in colour, but not correla- 

 tively with the upper, some examples that are quite 

 black beneath having the black spots on the upper 

 surface small. 



Kiushiu and main island. 



IV. Hind tihue stronglij arcuate at the extremity. 



The elytra in this group are regularly punctate in 

 striae, and the sexual disparity is but slight. 



Apodenis ergthroptenis. 



Attelahus erythropterus, Gmel., ed. Linn., 1788, p. 1809. 

 A. intermedins, Hellw., Schneid. Mag., v., p. 615. 

 A. jiolitns, Gebl., in Humm., Ess. Ent., iv., p. 50, 

 No. 12 {fide Schonherr). 

 Var. elytris nigris. 

 Apodenis nitens, Roelofs, Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg., xvii., 



p. 133. 

 A. erythropterus, var. atricolor, Faust, Hor. Ent. Ross., 

 xxi., p. 28. 

 Var. niger, pedibus abdomineque fulvo-testaceis. 

 Apoderus erythrog aster, Vollenh., Tijd. Dierkunde, ii., 



1865, p. 165. 

 A. ru/iventris, Roelofs, t. c, p. 135. 



Var. thorace ex parte rufo. 

 A. hicolor, Redtenbacher, Reise Novara, Col., p. 161. 



Var. rufus, capite antennis pedibusque nigris. 

 A. minimus, Roelofs, t. c, p. 136. 

 Var. niger elytris cyaneis. 



■'■' The paper on Apoderus, in which this species was described 

 has escaped the notice of the authors of the Munich Catalogue ot 

 Coleoptera, and of subsequent writers. It is recorded in Zoologica' 

 Record I., 1864, where, however, the date is wrongly given. 



TRANS. ENT. SOC. LOND. 1889. PAP.T I. (MARCH.) G 



