Geodephagous Coleoptera of Japan. 231 



Damaster pandurus, Bates. 

 Yokohama and S. E. Japan.. 



Var. cyanostola, Lewis. 



Lewis, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1882, p. 524 ; pan- 

 durus var., Ent. Mo. Mag., xvii., 1880, p. 60. 



Rather more slender in form than the D. pandurus of 

 the vicinity of Yokohama, and with a more distinct blue 

 tinge ; the thorax of richer blue colour. 



Mountains of Chiuzenji, lat. 36° 30'. 



Damaster Fortunci, Adams. 



Adams, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist., 1861, p. 59 ; Bates, 

 Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1873, p. 230; Lewis, Trans. 

 Ent. Soc. Lond., 1882, p. 524. D. liridipennis, Lewis, 

 Ent. Mo. Mag., xvii. (1880), p. 161. 



Awa-Sima, Tabu-Sima (Adams); Akita, Awomori, and 

 Ichinohe (Lewis). 



Allied to D. rugipennis more nearly than to D. pan- 

 durus, having three dilated joints with brush-soles in the 

 male fore tarsi. Mr. Lewis is convinced that his D. 

 viridipennis is the same as D. Fortunei. 



Damaster rugipennis, Motsch. 



Motsch., Etud. Entom., x., p. 6 ; D. auricollis, C. 

 Waterhouse, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., ser. 3, v., p. 569. 



Yezo, from Hakodate to Cape Soya in the extreme 

 north. 



Damaster capito, Lewis. 



Lewis, Ent. Mo. Mag., xvii. (1881), p. 197. 



Island of Sado ; not obtained on the second visit in 

 1881. 



Differs from all other described species by its more 

 compact form, broader and shorter both in trunk and 

 limbs ; also by the total absence of mucrones, the 

 apex of the elytra being formed very similarly to that 

 of Carabus procerulus. 



