Staphylhiidcc of Jcfpan. 31 



times yellow, marked with black on the imdcrside, some- 

 times nearly entirely yellow, and again sometimes nearly 

 entirely black. 



The specimens with black head and thorax have, so far 

 as I see, nothing else to distinguish them from those with 

 brassy head and thorax. 



Common in woods, under dead leaves and dung. 



59. Stophylinus inornatus,\^.^^. Latior, niger, opacus, 

 nigro-pubescens, capite thoraceque dense sat fortiter 

 punctatis ; aljdomine segmentis basi bifariam nigro- 

 tomentoso maculatis ; clypeo anticc leviter emarginato. 

 Long. 12 lin. 



Mas, abdomine scgmento 7" ventrali medio late exciso, 

 6° medio ante apicem longitudinalitcr lievigato, apice 

 emarginato. 



The colour of this species is that of the N. American 

 S. tomentosus, but the Japan insect is twice as broad as 

 the American one, and more coarsely sculptured. Head 

 narrower than the thorax, densely and coarsely pinic- 

 tured, with obsolete indications of a smooth line along the 

 middle. Thorax almost as long as broad, densely and 

 rather coarsely punctured, with a shining, smooth, narrow 

 space in front of the scutellum, which is obscurely con- 

 tinued forwards as an obsolete carina. Elytra of the 

 length of the thorax. Hind body black, rather sparingly 

 punctured, and the punctuation much concealed by the 

 pubescence ; each segment except the last has at the base 

 on each side of the middle a spot of dense black tomentum. 

 The femora are black, with the hind margin yellowish ; 

 tibia3 rusty black ; the middle tibiae clothed Avith strong 

 dense spines, and the anterior tibias also strongly spinulose 

 on the outside and behind. The epimera of the meso- 

 thorax are broad, and the middle legs not contiguous. 



In the male the hind margin of the 7th segment beneath 

 is very broadly excised, a narrow space along the margin 

 of the incision depressed, smooth and shining ; the 6th 

 segment has in the middle a smooth space before the 

 extremity, and on each side of this the pubescence is more 

 dense ; its hind margin is rather deeply eniarginate. 



On the sandy shore at Simabara, May, 1870. 



^ 60. Stajihijlinns suhcpneus,^.^). Niger, capite, thorace, 

 elytrisque suba^neis, tiblis ferrugineis ; clypeo antice truu- 



