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each with a distinct rather large yellowish spot, placed 

 much as it is in bir/uttafus, but twice as lai'ge as in that 

 species. Legs long, very slender; the femora notably very 

 slender ; they are nearly black, but the trochanters are 

 pitchy red. The metasternum is rather coarsely punc- 

 tured. The male characters are very similar to those of 

 bif/utfatns, but both the notch of the 7th segment, and the 

 emargination (or depression) of the 6th, are a little nar- 

 rower. 



Found on the shore at Hiogo, and also at Kiu Kiang, 

 China. 



148. Ste7uis alienus, n. sp. Xigro-subfeneus, dense pro- 

 fundeque i)imctatus, antennis pedibusque fusco-testaceis, 

 palpis testaceis articulo ultimo piceo, elytris macula parva 

 fulva. Long. 2i lin. 



Rather smaller and even more slenderly formed than 

 the *S'. tcnuipes, readily distinguished by the colour of the 

 legs and by the smaller spot on the elytra. Antennte long 

 and slender, the basal joint black, the rest pitchy yellow. 

 Palpi yellow, with the terminal joint pitchy. Head deeply 

 excavate, Avith a fine but distinct elevated line at the bottom 

 of the excavation. Thorax long and narrow, a little dilated 

 in the middle, very coarsely punctured, with a short, but 

 deep and distinct, channel (or rather elongate fovea) behind 

 the middle. Elytra not longer than the thorax, very 

 coarsely punctured, with a small yellow spot on the middle 

 of each. Hind body very slender, coarsely punctured. 

 Legs very long and slender, of a sordid-reddish colour. 



The male has a rather large notch at the apex of the 

 ventral plate of the 7th segment of the hind body. The 

 6th segment is emarginate at the extremity, deeply im- 

 pressed in front of the emargination, with the sides of this 

 impression strongly elevated ; the extremity of the 5th 

 segment is distinctly depressed. 



Found in sandy places at Simabara and Osaka. 



149. Stenus verecundus, n. sp. (Sec. I. A. Er.) Niger, 

 nitidulus, minus evidenter albido-pubescens, palpis articulo 

 basali pallido, dense fortiterque punctatus ; thorace oblongo, 

 fere tequali, elytris hoc longioribus, abdomine parcius sub- 

 tiliter pvmctulato. Long. Ig lin. 



Rather closely allied to *$". cinerascens, Er., but differing 



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