Geodephagous Coleoptera of Japan. 235 



Peronomerus nigrinus, Bates. 

 Bates, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1873, p. 245. 



Entirely confined to dry elevated slopes at Nagasaki 

 and near Kioto, and distinct from P.fumatus, Lewis. 



Peronom erus auripiUs . 



P. fumato proxime affinis sed differt statura majori, 

 prsecipue longiori, thoraceque relative angustiori, antice 

 longius rectiusque angustato, medio fortius angulato et 

 producto, postice valde sinuato angulis posticis productis 

 dentiformibus. Elongato-ovatus, viridescenti-aeneus pube 

 erecte fulvo-aurato dense vestitus ; antennis piceis, 

 articulo basali palpis pedibusque fulvo-testaceis. Long. 

 9| mm., $ , $ . 



Marshes, Ogura Lake ; Uyeno and Honjo, in Tokio. 

 Rare. 



Bather larger than Canton examples of P. fumatus ; 

 nearly the same in colours, sculpture, and clothing, but 

 differing in its slightly more elongate form, especially 

 that of the thorax, which is much narrower, and is 

 more lengthened anteriorly from the very prominent 

 lateral angle to the head. 



Chlcenius prostenus, Bates. 



Bates, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1873, p. 325. 



Margins of the Ogura Lake, near Kioto. 



Previously known only from Kiu-Kiang, on the Yang- 

 tsze, China. 



Anisodactyhis tricuspidatus, Morawitz. 



Morawitz, Beitr. z. Kaferfauna Ins. Jesso, p. 66. 



In addition to Hiogo, previously recorded, Subashiri, 

 Niigata. 



Ophonus constrictus. 



Harpalo Icevicolli haud dissimilis ; major, piceo-niger 

 nitidus, antennis palpis pedibusque testaceo-rufis ; supra 

 toto sparsim subtiliter punctatus, thorace basi densius 

 et grossius subconfluenter punctato ; capite fere ut in 

 Harpalo fidiginoso magno, post oculos tumidulo, foveis 

 frontalibus profundis rugosis, extus obliquis sed versus 



