MIWA: a SlVDY ON THE Sl'ECIES Oi' MlXOID.E IN THE JAPANESE E.MI'IRE 



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Hitherto twenty-nine species and two varieties of Meloidae from Japan pro- 

 per, Corea, Formosa and Saclialien have been reported by senior autliors, as 

 Marseul, Lewis, Kiesenwettek, Koeüe, Heyden, Schöneeldt, Matsumura, 

 SuMAKOv, Pic, Shiraki, Bokchmann and Okamoto, etc. 



After the careful studies of the author, eight genera and twenty eiglit 

 species, inchiding unrecorded one species and two varieties, have been found 

 as the Me[oid-{z\.\w3. of the Japanese Empire. 



The present intention of me is two enumerate tliese species, showing tlieir 

 distributions, with the description of one new variety : 



Zonitoschema jmllifla var. oIcinfureHsis (n. var.) 



9 . Elongate, testaceous, somewhat shining, with griceous pubescence. 

 Eyes large and black. Head rather short, strongly and densely punctured. 

 Prothorax relatively long, rather rounded anteriorly, transverse at the base, 

 very slightly impressed longitudinally on the disk, closely and strongly punc- 

 tured. Elytra parallel, densely punctured on each dorsal part, but much feebler 

 on the lateral sides. These characters nearly coincide with those of the typical 

 ^. pallida F. except the antennae and legs which are wholly pale brownish 

 yellow. 



Length: 17mm. Width: 5 mm. 



Hab. — Loo-choo; Ishigakijima, VII-1925 (S. Hikayama). 



AN ENUMERATION OF ^/^/.Ö/Z?-SPECIES, 

 SHOWING THEIR DISTRIBUTIONS. 



