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XXXIV. — On the Cistelidaj and other Heteromerons Species 

 of Japan. By G. Lewis, F.L.S. 



[Plate VIII.] 



This paper is written to follow that of the Tenebrionida;, 

 published in the Ann, & Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 6, vol. xiii. 

 pp. 377-400, and 465-485, 1894; and in some notes given 

 liere at the end of the ffidemeridge will be found some refer- 

 ences to the synonymy which is necessary to bring the paper 

 of last year up to date. Of the families now treated of, 

 Marseul in 1876 enumerated nearly fifty species, and about 

 forty more have been described by other authors, including 

 myself, and these, with the additions recorded here, bring the 

 entire number to about 175. The Pyrochroida have been 

 chiefly dealt with separately in a paper in the Ann. & Mag. 

 Nat. Hist. ser. 5, vol. xx. pp. 167-174, 1887, and the 

 Mordellidfe, Rhipiphoridfe, Meloidaj, and Cantharidse remain 

 to be worked out before the Heteromerous series is complete 

 so far as my Japanese collection is concerned. 



The collections in the National Museum of the later 

 families in the Heteromera have not been of material use to 

 me ; they are not so rich in named specimens as in the 

 Tenebrionida?, but I am again much indebted to Mr. G. 0. 

 Champion for both the loan of typical specimens and for a 

 continuance of the kindly assistance given to me last year. 

 It will be noticed also from the number of genera I have been 

 obliged to establish that this section of the Heteromera has 

 been less studied, owing partly no doubt to the greater paucity 

 of material in collections than in the genera of the earlier 

 series, and this too after using, as other authors have done, 

 names sunk in the Munich Catalogue as synonymic. 



In the list of species at the end of this paper a reference is 

 again given to the year of the ' Zoological Kecord ' in which 

 some isolated descriptions may be found. This only applies 

 to species to which the full reference is not given here or in 

 Marseul's memoir of 1876 or the Munich Catalogue of 1869. 



Allecula cryptomeruv, sp. n. 



Elongata. opaca, nigra : antennis, palpis pedihusque rufis vel ob- 

 scure brunneis ; thorace leviter punctulato ; elytris pinictato- 

 striatis, interstitiis impunctatis convexis. 



L. 16-17;i mill. 



Elongate, rather parallel at the sides, black, opaque ; the 

 head sparingly and unevenly punctured ; the thorax ob- 

 scurely punctulate, with a faint median channel, nearly as 

 long as broad, bisinuous at base ; the scutelium almost 



