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behind the eyes; the antemiJB become a little browner 
towards the apex. The thorax is short and cordate, the 
sides strongly ronnded anteriorly, the anterior angles 
deflexed and scarcely visible, strongly sinuated posteriorly, 
v.'ith produced and acute hind angles ; the surface is punc- 
tate, faintly rugose, and pubescent, and there is a transverse 
Ijlack vitta on the hind margin. The elytra have distinct 
but rather obtuse-angled shoulders, v.hich arises from their 
being dilated immediately from the shoulders towards tlie 
apex ; there are eight sharp, shining cost^ (the eighth 
becoming obsolete towards the base), the interstices are 
minutely punctured and opake. 
Crejndogaster hicolor. — Braclmvis hicolor, Bohem. 
Eugenics Resa, Goleopt. p. 3. 
Kawachi, many examples ; China (Bohem.). Under 
stones in fir woods ; crcpidates strongly. 
Japanese specimens agree in almost every particular 
with Boheman's description, and it is remarkable (if it be 
really the same species) that he should not have recog- 
nized the species as belonging to his own genus Crepido- 
gaster. Its opake surface and thickened antennae give it 
a different facies from the Bracliini, and its tumid, securi- 
form labial palpi are very conspicuous. 
Section DctoglosscB. 
Subfam. Masokein^. 
Masoreus adelio'ides, Macleay, Annul. Javan, p. 23, 
t. 8, f. 2. 
Nagasaki ; under stones on hills. 
A species of wdde distribution, being found in Java, 
Bengal, Birmah, Cochin-China, Japan, and Western Aus- 
tralia. I have compared Japanese specimens with others 
from Saigon and West Australia (from Mr. Du Boulay's 
collection), without discovering any difference of im- 
portance. 
Subfam. Dromiin^. 
Dromius quadraticollis, MoraAvitz, Bull. Acad. St. 
Petersb. v. 1863, p. 244. 
Kawachi ; beaten from trees, August. Amur (mouth 
of the Usuri), Morawitz. 
Of the size and colour of D. agilis, but Avith longer and, 
