208 Mr. H. W. Bates' supplement to the 



Chlcenius culmlnatus. Pcecilas planicollis, Mots.? 



^nigricans, Wiedm., Chaud. = encopoleu*, Solsky. 



Harpalus Icevieollis (nee Dufts.). Poecilus lepidus, nee F. 



= congruus, Mots. = fortipes, Chaud. 



Harpalus Japonicus. Pterostichus microceplialus (nee 



=rugicollis, Mots. Mots.). 



Harpalus argutoroides. =^Lagarus nimbatus, Mor. 



=■ Oxycentrus id., Chaud. Pterostichus Japonicus, Mots. 



Harpalus relucem. = prolongatus, Mor. 



=Iridessus id., Bates. Pterostichus tropidurus. 



Harpalus zabroldes (nee. Dej.). = prolongatus, Mor. 



= corporosus, Mots. Bembidium cognatum, Mor. (nee 



Harpalus lucidus. Dej.). 



= Iridessus id., Bates. =J3. consentaneum, Munich Oat. 



Pristonychus eeneolus. Crepldogaster bicolor (nee Boh.). 



= Eucalathus id., Bates. = Styphromerus Bated, Chaud. 



Pristodactyla cyclodera. Dromius quadratlcollis (nee Mor:). 



= Crepidactyla id. =prolixus, Bates. 



Trechichin.e. Paraphcea signifera. 



= Peeigonin^;. =Ancliista blnotata, Dej., Chaud. 



Trechlchus Japonicus. Cymindis pictula. 



=Perigona Japonica, Bates, Putz. = £7»ea id., Fauvel. 

 Trlplogen lus cuprescens. 



= Trigonognathaid., Mots., Bates. 



With regard to the relations of the Geodephagous 

 Fauna of Japan to that of other countries, the new 

 material does not supply any facts to overthrow, or even 

 to essentially modify, the views put forward in the 

 Introduction to the paper of 1873. But though it can 

 no longer be pleaded that our knowledge of the Japanese 

 fauna in this department is too limited to justify any 

 conclusions being drawn regarding its relations — for 400 

 species cannot be very far off the total number, seeing 

 that our well-explored islands furnish only 311 — our 

 much less complete knowledge of the corresponding part 

 of the faunas of Eastern Asia compels us to be cautious 

 in our generalisations. We cannot, for example, accept 

 as a final conclusion the large proportion of peculiar 

 genera which the present state of our knowledge gives 

 to Japan ; although the later discoveries have not 

 diminished it, the number in 1873 having been nine 

 genera peculiar out of a total of 84, whilst now we find 

 11 out of a total of 114. Two of the former nine have 

 since proved to be not confined to Japan, but found 

 elsewhere, reducing the number to seven ; but, on the 

 other hand, four new endemic genera have been dis- 

 covered. Nor can we determine with any degree of 

 certainty, or even discuss to any good purpose, the 

 question — To what part of the Asiatic mainland is Japan 

 most nearly related in the temperate elements of its 

 fauna ? The great majority of the species of North 



