new Japanese Coleoptera. 331 



pedibusque pallidioribus ; capite sat lafco, post oculos param 

 angustato ; thorace ante basin conspicue constricto, angulis 

 posticis acutis ; elytris ovatis, depressis, striis tenuiter impressis, 

 interstifciis haud convexis, hevibus. 

 L. 6 mill. 



This species is similar in size to T. oreas, Bates, in the 

 Japanese series, but it is darker in colour, much more de- 

 pressed, head wider, thorax broader behind the anterior angles, 

 and at and before the base the thorax is conspicuously con- 

 stricted. The elytra are precisely oval, being rounded off 

 anteriorly and posteriorly in exactly the same measure, are 

 very feebly convex, with the stria3 fine and interspaces nearly 

 flat and smooth. 



Hah. Ontake, August 1881. I obtained only one example. 



Pheropsophus agnatus, Chaudoir. 



Pheropsophus aqnatus, Chaud. Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg. xix. p. 43 (187G) ; 

 Bates, Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. (6) ix. p. 281. 



I believe this species is now recorded from Japan for the 

 first time. Chaudoir described it on a Chinese specimen ; 

 Bates's notice refers to varieties. 



Hab. Oshima {Oherthiir) . 



Styphromerus Batesi, Chaudoir. 



Styphro7iierus Batesi, Chaud. Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg. xix. p. 87 (1876). 

 Crepidoqaster bicolor, Bohni., Bates, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. p. 307 

 (1873). 



Chaudoir in 1876 corrected the nomenclature of this species. 



Hah. Nagasaki. Only seen once ; this species crepitates 

 more loudly than any species of Brachinus 1 have ever met 

 with alive. 



Atritomus Eeitteri, sp. n. 



Oblongo-ovalis, piceus vel nigro-piceus, nitidus ; capite, thorace 

 antennisque nigris ; elytris brunneis vel disco infuscato, pnnctato- 

 striatis : pedibus piceis. 



L. 2|-2| mill. 



Oblong-oval, piceous or nearly black, shining; the head 

 punctate, punctures irregular and not very thickly set ; the 

 thorax transverse, more thickly punctured than the head, but 

 the punctures are somewhat sparse before the scutellum, 

 lateral rim arched and distinctly renexed ; the elytra are 

 usually wholly brown, but sometimes the dorsal disk is infus- 

 cate as well as a band along the outer margin, punctate- 



24* 



