Geodephagous Coleoptera of Japan. 275 
maxillary palpi is nearly cylindrical and as long as the 
preceding. The thorax is rather elongate, its sides rounded 
anteriorly ; moderately narrowed j^osteriorly Avithout dis- 
tinct sinuation ; the hind angles are distinct although ob- 
tuse, and the sides of the base cut obliquely on each side 
towards the angle ; the basal fovere are long, broad, and 
deep. 
Colpodes atricomes, n. sp. 
Niger, nitidus ; antennis, palpis, tibiis et tarsis piceo- 
rufis ; thorace quadrato postice plusquam antice angustato, 
lateribus late requaliter explanatis, piceis, angulis posticis 
rotundatis; elytris amplis, apice ntrinque bisinuatis, angulo 
suturali spinoso ; tarsis interraediis et posticis supra fortiter 
bisulcatis, articulis 1 — 4 subtus dense breviter pilosis, 
articulo 4to anticorum et intermediorum bilobato, posti- 
corum emai'ginato, angulo exteriori paulo elongato. 
Long. 6 lin. $ ? . 
Hiogo ; several examples. 
llesembles closely the black Ancliomcni of the Llmo- 
dromus group. The palpi are long, the terminal joint of 
the maxillaries much shorter than the preceding. The 
antennffi are long and slender, 3rd and 4tli joints nearly 
equal. The head is small and narrowed, in equal manner, 
anteriorly to the labrum and ])Osteriorly to the neck. The 
thorax is about half the width of the elytra; widely and 
equally margined, rather strongly rounded on the sides ; 
widest before the middle, Avhere it is by a half wider than 
the length ; the sides are strongly upturned, leaving a wide 
groove between the edges and the disk; disk fainth'- 
Avrinkled. The elytra are ample and at the tip obliquely 
bisinuate, the produced spine at the suture causing a second 
short sinuation besides the usual longer external one ; the 
surface is strongly striated, the stride faintly punctulated. 
C. splendens, Morawitz, Bull. Ac. St. Petersb. v. 1863, 
p. 324 ; id. Beitr. p. 40, t. 1, f. 19. 
Nagasaki ; Hiogo ; Yokohama ; Yesso. 
A large species with brilliant brassy elytra. 
C. lampros, n. sp. 
Testaceo-rufus, capite et thoracis disco nigro-castaneis ; 
elytris (marginibus lateralibus rufis exceptis) viridi-auratis 
