422 



Mr. D. Sliarp's Additions, S^'c. 



Antennfe distinctly thickened towards the extremity, 

 tlie five basal joints reddish and glabrous (the others 

 pubescent); first joint rather long and stout, 2nd joint 

 short, 3rd long and slender, twice as long as the 2nd, 

 joints 6 — 10 black, the first of them longer than broad, 

 the 2nd scarcely so long as broad; 11th joint short, 

 ])ointed, reddish. Palpi and horny parts of tlie mouth 

 reddish, the soft parts exserted and visibly densely pubes- 

 cent. Head distinctly but irregularly punctured, the 

 margin over the insertion of the antennas distinctly raised, 

 and on the inner side of this the surface is broadly de- 

 pressed. Thorax nearly twice as broad as it is long, the 

 sides rounded and narrowed towards the front ; the base is 

 excavate on each side, so that the hinder angles are 

 almost acute, and besides this it is also a little emarginate 

 in front of the scutellum ; it is densely covered with coarse 

 punctures, but at the base the punctures are almost Avant- 

 ing in the middle, and at the hind angles. Scutellum 

 large and very smooth and shining. Elytra nearly twice 

 as long as the thorax is in the middle, convex both trans- 

 versely and longitudinally, each has eight deep broad 

 striae, these being coarsely punctured, the interstices quite 

 impunctate, the extremity is rounded ; the three exposed 

 segments of the hind body are of a pitchy colour, and dis- 

 tinctly punctured. The legs are pitchy, the tarsi reddish, 

 these about half as long as the tibire. This species occurs 

 sparingly in damp places, in the wood around Maiyasan 

 Temple, Hiogo. In spring, beneath fallen and decaying 

 leaves, and later on, in the summer, it may be beaten off 

 the lower foliage of various shrubs. 



LIST OF SPECIES. 



DYTISCID^. 



Ennectes sticticus, Linn. 

 Dytiscus mcarginalis, Linn. 



GYRINID^. 

 Gyrinus curtus, Mots. 



HYDROPHILID^. 



Ccrcyon quisquilius, Linn, 

 ustus, n. sp. 



HYDRO PHILID^ - continued. 

 Ccrcyon olibrus, n. sp. 



sorex, n. sp. 

 Cyclonotiim simplex, n. sp. 



breve, n. sp. 

 Cryptopleuruni atomarium, Fab. 

 Megasternum gibbulum, Mots. 



STAPHYLmiD^. 



Trvgffius princeps, n. sp. 



