Geodephagous Coleoptera of Japan. 251 



p. 261, characters are adduced which are quite inappli- 

 cable to the species. They are possibly only blunders, 

 and the species may be the same; but it is safer to reject 

 the name altogether. 



Lagarus nimbatidius ; Feronia (?) nimbatidia, Chaudoir. 



Chaudoir, Bull. Mosc, 1878, p. 63. 



Japan. 



Said to be very near L. nimbatus, differing in the more 

 rounded sides and hind angles of the thorax. In L. 

 nimbatus the hind angles are always distinct, and some- 

 times projecting ; but they vary, and I doubt whether 

 L. nimbatidius is more than one of the varieties. 



Lagarus sulcitarsis, Morawitz. 

 Morawitz, Bull. Acad. St. Petersb., v., p. 250. 

 Hakodate ; also at Fukui, in the main island. 



Lagarus dulcis. 



L. sulcitarsi proxime affinis et similis; major et latiori, 

 niger subopalescens, politus, antennis palpis et pedibus 

 piceis; capite ovato, post oculos sat prominentes recte an- 

 gustato ; thorace relative magno convexo, quadrato lateri- 

 bus fere regulariter arcuatis (antice magis quam postice 

 angustato) angulis anticis vix productis, posticis omnino 

 rotundatis, margine laterali tenui usque ad medium basin 

 continuato, supra basi utrinque fere piano, punctulato, 

 linea elongata recta (a margine clistante) impressa; 

 elytris elongato-oblongis punctulato-striatis, interstitiis 

 planis, tertio tripunctato ; tarsis 4 posticis bisulcatis. 



$ . Segmentum ultimum ventrale simplex. Long. 

 10 mm., $ , ? . 



Ogura Lake, in reed-refuse. 



Pcecilus encopoleus, Solsky. 



Solsky, Horse Soc. Ent. Boss., ix., 4, p. 306 ; Harold, 

 Deutsche Ent. Zeitschr., 1877, p. 339. 



Pcecilus planicollis, Motsch., Etud. Ent., 1860, p. 5 (?); 

 Bates, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1873, p. 284. 



Generally distributed throughout Japan. 



All the examples of Poecilus of the cupreus group taken 

 by Mr. Lewis have three basal joints of the antennas red. 



