428 Mr. G. Lewis on 



Mecynotarsus minimus^ Mars. 



This species is sometimes very common in arable fields in 

 early spring. I once saw it in profusion at Bukenji, near 

 Yokohama, in company with a small species of Blechrus ; 

 both species were running together, and were exceedingly 

 active in the sunshine. 



Easily recognized from the other two species of this series 

 by the shortness of the antennae and legs. 



Hab. Nagasaki, Enoshima, Kioto, Otsu, and Yokohama. 



Tomoderus davipes, Champion. (PI. VIII. fig. 10.) 

 Tomoderus davipes, Champ. Ent. M. M, ser. 2, i. p. 325 (1890). 

 Hab. Kob^. I took five examples under moist decaying 



leaves near the temple on Maiyasan, 8th June, 1881, in 



company with Apatetica princeps^ Sh. 



Anthicomoephus, gen. nov. 



The general characters agree with those of the genus 

 Anthicus] the important differences are: — Eyes very large, 

 with very coarse facets ; antennae stout, with an enlarged 

 basal joint and a long and apically constricted terminal one ; 

 in the males joints 3 to 8 are longer than those of the female 

 and somewhat obconical ; in the female these joints (espe- 

 cially in A. cruculis) are moremoniliform. The legs are long 

 and robust. 



Type A. suturalis. 



Anthicomorphus suturalis^ sp. n. (Fig. 6.) 



Rufo-testaceus, capita, thorace supra elytrisque sutnra (apice 



excepta) late infuscatis : antennis pedibusque rufo-testaceis. 

 L. 5 mill. 



Elongate, reddish testaceous, shining, 

 pubescent ; the head and thorax infuscate Fig. 6. 



above, densely punctured, head sometimes 

 infuscate beneath ; the elytra with a broad 

 sutural infuscate area, broadest in the region 

 of the scutellum, parallel in the middle, and 

 terminating well before the apex ; the abdo- 

 minal segments, legs, antennse, mouth- 

 organs, and the sides of the elytra clear 

 reddish brown. The elytra are punctured 

 like the thorax. 



Hab. Oyayama, Miyanoshita, Tsukuba- 



