64 My. David Sliarp on the 



its antenna?, and from the fact that the head is not emargl- 

 nate behind, will probably ultimately prove to belong to a 

 distinct genus.* Antenna yellowish, short ; the 2nd joint 

 extremely broad, three or four times the width of the 

 small and slender 3rd joint ; the joints 3 — 10 are very 

 slender, the 11th joint a little broader than the preceding 

 ones. Palpi reddish. Head rather long and narrow, 

 distinctly narrowed in front, the base a little rounded; it 

 is rather darker in colour than the other parts, so that it 

 is nearly black, and it is extremely finely and densely 

 punctured. The mandibles are red. The thorax is dis- 

 tinctly narrower than the elytra ; it is longer than broad, 

 is a little narrowed behind, of an obscure reddish colour, 

 excessively finely and densely pinictured. Elytra parallel, 

 longer than the thorax, of an infuscate yellowish or brown- 

 ish colour, finely and densely punctured. Hind body not 

 narroAved at the base, extremely finely punctured. Legs 

 yellow. 



The male has the hind margin of the 7th segment of 

 the hind body a little emarginate on the under side. 



Three specimens (2 ^, 1 $) fi'om nibbish heaps at 

 Nagasaki. 



120. Lithocharis spectahilis, Kr. 

 A few specimens found in dung. 



121. Lithocharis staphylinioides, Kr. I identify these 

 specimens Avith some doubts with Kraatz's description. 

 Principally from the fact that the hind margin of the head, 

 though much emarginate on the under side, is but little so, 

 on the upper side. 



In rubbish heaps at Nagasaki ; common in the spring. 



122. Lithocharis dehilicornis, Woll. I am unable to 

 find any good character to distinguish the Japan indi- 

 viduals of this species from specimens I possess from the 

 Canary Islands, Egypt, and Persia. 



• It is possible, indeed, that the Sc. hasicornis may prove to belontr to 

 the genus Thinocharh, Kr. (in which the structure of the antennaj is 

 described to be as in this species), but I have seen no stsecimen of tliat 

 genus to compare with the S. basicornis, and am unable to ascertain, owing 

 to the small number of specimens at my command, if it possess the 

 characters of the trophi assigned to the gen\is Thinoiliaris bv'Kraatz. 



