Staph i/linid(S of Jdpan. 101 



A single individual ; found in company with Omalium 

 japnnicum. 



189. Lispinns lonc/ulus, n. sp. Nigi'o-piceus, nitidulus, 

 antennis pedibusque rufis, thorace medio subtiliter canali- 

 culato, disco pone medium bi-impresso, lateribus minus 

 discrete impressis, elytris parce punctatis. Long. H lin. 



Apparently allied to L. impressicollis, or subopacus. 

 Antennre dark red, al)out as long as head and thorax, but 

 little thickened toAA-ards the extremity ; joints 6 — 10 a 

 little transverse. Head finely and sparingly punctured. 

 Thorax broader than long, rounded at the sides and much 

 constricted behind, with a fine but quite distinct channel 

 along the middle, on each side of Avhich the hinder part is 

 impressed, the sides in front of the hinder angles are also 

 broadly depressed, in front of this depression with a kind 

 of elongate indistinct tubercle, it is rather sparingly and 

 coarsely punctured, and has a dull greasy kind of lustre. 

 Elytra longer than the thorax, sparingly, moderately finely 

 punctiu'ed, the base inside the humeral angle distinctly 

 im])ressed. Extremity of hind body reddish. Legs 

 yellow. 



Found in damp vegetable refuse ; especially fond of 

 decaying cabbage-stumps. 



190. Micropeplus fulvus, Er. A-ar. jnponicus. Speci- 

 mens of a Micropeplus brought back by Mr. LeAvis are 

 larger and much broader than our European fulvus, and 

 have the marginal line of the head more strongly elevated. 

 I am imable however to find another character to dis- 

 tinguish them, and as these Japanese individuals v-ary in 

 colour in a similar manner to our fulvus, and as the male 

 characteristics are quite the same in the two, I have de- 

 cided to treat the Japanese form as only a variety of the 

 European fulvus. 



Abundant in rubbish heaps. 



