Geodephagous Coleoptcra of Japan. 267 
has in the middle an oblong pnbescent fovea. The 
anterior tarsi of the $ are triangularly dilated, but the 
lateral angles are blunter, and in the 4th joint produced 
into lobes. 
Bradycellus IcBticolor, n. sp. 
Flavo-testaceus, capite et elytris nigris, thoracc rufo ; 
antennis (articulis duobus basalibus rufis exceptis) nigris ; 
thorace postice modice angustato, angulis posticis obtusis 
sed hand rotundatis, fovea basali magna, punctata. 
Long. 2^ lin. $ . 
Nagasaki. One specimen also taken, on the banks of 
the Yang-tsze, in China. 
Similar in form to the B. distinctus, but head larger 
and thicker behind the eyes, which are embraced behind 
by an orbit. The palpi are tawny-testaceous. The thorax 
is shorter and broader than in B. distinctus, dilated and 
rounded almost immediately behind the anterior angles, 
then moderately narrowed (not sinuated to the distinct but 
obtuse hind angles); the basal fovea is large and deep, 
and coarsely punctured. The elytra are glossy black, 
sharply but simply striated, and "without scutellar striole. 
The underside is reddish-testaceous, with the metasternum 
darker. 
This may prove to be a Tachjcellus, when the $ is 
knoAvn. 
Bradycellus Jimhriatus, n. sp. 
Brevis, elongato-ovatus, fusco-piceus, elytris utrinquc 
margine toto tcstaceo-rufo ; thorace colore variabili, palpis 
pedibusque flavo-testaceis ; thorace elytris angustiori, antice 
angustato, postice lateribus et angulis posticis rectis, basi 
sparsim grosse punctate. 
If— If lin. ^5. 
Nagasaki. 
General form short, oblong-ovate, with the thorax not 
at all cordate, but narrowed in front and with nearly 
straight sides behind ; hind angles rectangular, basal fovea? 
long and narrow, and the whole base sparingly but rather 
coarsely punctured. The colour is variable ; but the disk 
of each elytron is always pitchy-black, leaving rufous 
margins which occupy one interstice at the suture and 
four at the sides and apex ; the head and thorax are gene- 
rally rusty-testaceous, Avith the disks piceous. The antenna? 
are short and thick for this genus, with joints 2 — 10 almost 
