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  Staphylinidce 
  of 
  Japan. 
  415 
  

  

  Oxytelus 
  marginatus. 
  

  

  Oxytelus 
  marijinatus, 
  Weise, 
  Deutsche 
  ent. 
  Zeitschr. 
  xxi. 
  1877, 
  p. 
  90. 
  

  

  This 
  apparently 
  also 
  has 
  not 
  been 
  found 
  by 
  Mr. 
  Lewis. 
  I 
  

   should 
  think 
  it 
  must 
  be 
  near 
  0. 
  mimulus 
  ; 
  the 
  male 
  is 
  said 
  to 
  

   have 
  very 
  prominent 
  mandibles. 
  Found 
  at 
  Tokio, 
  and 
  

   thought 
  to 
  be 
  probably 
  not 
  rare. 
  

  

  CopropMlus 
  impressus 
  } 
  n. 
  sp. 
  

  

  Niger, 
  nitidus, 
  pedibus 
  sordide 
  rufis 
  ; 
  prothoracis 
  dorso 
  multi- 
  

  

  impresso, 
  lateribus 
  crenatis 
  ; 
  elytris 
  abbreviato-striatis. 
  

   Long. 
  5| 
  millim. 
  

  

  Antennae 
  stout, 
  penultimate 
  joints 
  transverse. 
  Head 
  rather 
  

   coarsely 
  punctate. 
  Thorax 
  not 
  so 
  long 
  - 
  as 
  broad, 
  on 
  the 
  

   middle 
  towards 
  the 
  front 
  with 
  an 
  elongate 
  depression, 
  near 
  

   the 
  base 
  with 
  two 
  depressions, 
  and 
  with 
  a 
  very 
  large, 
  irregu- 
  

   lar, 
  lateral 
  impression 
  on 
  each 
  side, 
  the 
  surface 
  sparingly 
  but 
  

   rather 
  coarsely 
  punctate, 
  very 
  shining, 
  the 
  side 
  margins 
  very 
  

   conspicuously 
  crenate. 
  Elytra 
  much 
  longer 
  than 
  the 
  thorax, 
  

   each 
  with 
  fine 
  punctate 
  grooves 
  not 
  reaching 
  the 
  hind 
  margin. 
  

  

  This 
  is 
  an 
  insect 
  scarcely 
  so 
  large 
  as 
  C. 
  striatulus, 
  and 
  ha3 
  

   the 
  thoracic 
  impressions 
  remarkably 
  conspicuous 
  ; 
  the 
  elytral 
  

   grooves 
  deeper 
  and 
  connected 
  behind, 
  the 
  hind 
  margins 
  of 
  the 
  

   elytra 
  not 
  reticulate. 
  

  

  Eukushima 
  and 
  Sapporo. 
  

  

  CopropMlus 
  simplex, 
  n. 
  sp. 
  

  

  Niger 
  ; 
  antenuarum 
  basi 
  elytrisque 
  piceis, 
  pedibus 
  rufis 
  ; 
  thorace 
  

   elongato, 
  obsolete 
  impresso, 
  irregulariter 
  subtiliter 
  punctato, 
  

   marginibus 
  lateralibus 
  obsoletissiine 
  crcnatis 
  ; 
  elytris 
  vage 
  irregu- 
  

   lariterque 
  striato-punctatis 
  . 
  

  

  Long. 
  G 
  millim. 
  

  

  Head 
  deeply 
  biimpressed 
  in 
  front. 
  Thorax 
  about 
  as 
  long 
  

   as 
  broad, 
  much 
  narrowed 
  behind, 
  hind 
  angles 
  obtuse, 
  the 
  

   surface 
  irregularly 
  punctate, 
  with 
  two 
  obsolete 
  impressions 
  

   behind 
  the 
  middle. 
  Elytra 
  longer 
  than 
  the 
  thorax, 
  with 
  

   irregular 
  abbreviated 
  series 
  of 
  punctures. 
  

  

  "Wada-toge, 
  1st 
  August, 
  1881 
  ; 
  one 
  specimen. 
  

  

  This 
  species 
  is 
  not 
  at 
  all 
  near 
  any 
  other 
  ; 
  the 
  irregular 
  dis- 
  

   tribution 
  of 
  the 
  thoracic 
  punctuation, 
  the 
  depressions 
  being 
  

   absent, 
  is 
  peculiar. 
  

  

  Tvogophloeus 
  sertcatus, 
  n. 
  sp. 
  

   Latus, 
  subdepressus, 
  nigerrimus, 
  omnium 
  subtilissime 
  brevissimeque 
  

  

  