20 Mr. DaA Id Sharp on the 



ened towards the extremity, 3rd joint evidently long^er than 

 the short 2nd joint, 4 — 6 each longer than broad, 7th and 

 8th about as long as broad, 11th rather stout, longer than 

 the preceding. Palpi yellow, head pitchy, impunctate ; 

 thorax shining red, the whole of the disc impunctate, but 

 with sparing, fine, isolated punctures near the margins. 

 Scutellum reddish, impunctate. Elytra longer than the 

 thorax, black, with the apex reddish, with the usual 

 sutural series of punctures, and with numerous other 

 punctures irregularly placed. Hind body reddish, neither 

 densely nor strongly punctured, with a distinct depressed 

 long and fulvous pubescence, and the hind margins of the 

 segments with stouter black seta?. Legs red. 

 A single specimen in mushrooms at Nagasaki. 



41. Bolit()hi7is japonicus, n. sp. (affinis B. trinotati). 

 Antennis gracilioribus, piceis, basi testaceis ; capite nigro, 

 thorace testaceo, plus minusve infuscato ; elytris testaceis, 

 parte apicali nigricante, seriebus punctorum multipunctatis, 

 abdomine rufescente apice siimmo piceo. Long. 2 — 2^. 



Allied to B. trinotatus, and apparently like that species 

 rather variable in size and colour, and differing as follows : 

 it has the antenna3 more slender and darker-coloured, with 

 a much more elongate apical joint; the dark portion of the 

 elytra is usually greater in extent, and the rows of punc- 

 tures have 10 — 12 punctures in each row. It is also 

 usually smaller than trinotatus. So far as I can see the 

 male is distinguished from the female only by having the 

 hind margin of the ventral plate of the 8th segment a little 

 angulate in the middle ; having seen, however, only half- 

 a-dozen specimens in bad condition, I am not sure that I 

 have correctly identified the male. 



Among dead leaves. 



42. Heterothops cognatus, n. sp. Niger, nitidus, minus 

 dense punctatus, antennarum articulo primo, pedibusque 

 piceo-testaceis ; capite breviter ovato, elytris thorace longio- 

 ribus, summo apice rufescentibus. Long. 2 — 2^ lin. 



This species greatly resembles our H. hinotatus, but is 

 much more sparingly punctured. In the form of its head 

 and the structure of its antennae it is intermediate between 

 that species and H. "prcBvius. The basal joint of the 

 antennae is yellowish, and the one or two following joints 

 are indistinctly paler than the rest. The elytra are con- 



