the Cistelida3 &c. of Japan. 431 



Anthicus fugiens, Mars. (PI. VIII. fig. 11, (?.) 



The male of this species has the elytra very curiously 

 excavated on each side in the widest part ; the excavation is 

 somewhat oblong, and in the middle attached to the outer side 

 there is a bunch of stiffish tawny hair, which extends out 

 over the middle of the hollow part, and seems to serve to 

 prevent any foreign substance, such as pollen, from entering 

 the deepest part. The species is essentially one that frequents 

 flowers. Marseul only knew the female. 



Bab. Kiga, Miyanoshita, Nikko, Nagasaki, and other 

 places. Usually beaten from the flowers of Deutzia gracilis 

 and an arboreous Spircea. 



AntMcus lepidulus^ Mars., a very pale species, and A. nigro- 

 cyanellus, Mars., a pretty blue species, also frequent the flowers 

 mentioned above ; the second species occurs also on the 

 mainland of Asia* 



AntMcus haicalicus, Muls. 



The specimens I submitted to Marseul in 1874, and which 

 are mentioned by him in the paper of 1876, were maculate, 

 a form of the species found in the Kobe and Yokohama 

 districts ; but a long series I obtained afterwards on the sandy 

 beaches of Hakodate and Niigata are uniformly olive-green 

 (var. m'pom'cus) and are entirely free of the vague reddish 

 spots usually found in this species. 



Hab. Koh6, Odawara, Yokohama, Kawasaki, Niigata, and 

 Hakodate. 



AntMcus perileptoides, sp. n. 



Elongatus, depressus, pallide flavo-testaceus ; elytris basi vage 

 nigro-maculatis, dense punctulatis ; antennis pedibusque con- 

 coloribus. 



L. 2 min. 



Elongate, depressed, pale yellowish testaceous ; the head 

 clearly, not densely punctured, rounded off behind, feebly 

 widest behind the eyes ; the thorax not quite so wide as the 

 head, rounded ofi" laterally before the constriction, punctured 

 like the head ; the elytra behind the scutellura have two 

 oblique ill-defined black marks, surface closely punctulate, 

 sutural edges towards the apex slightly raised ; the antennse 

 and legs testaceous yellow, articulations 7 to 10 of the former 

 moniliform. 



This is the only species in the present series with flattened 



