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thorax, legs, and antennge are paler than the general colour 

 of the bodj, second joint of the antennae scarcely so long as 

 the third. 



The punctuation of the thorax is similar in both sexes. 



Hab. Nikko. Two examples (male and female) in August 

 1881. 



Limonius marginicoUtSj sp. n. 



Ferrugineus, aeneo-tinctus, nitidus, griseo-pubescens ; capite dense 

 punctate ; thorace margine antice anguste rufo ; ant€nnis basi 

 pedibusque rufis. 



L. 7^-8 mill. 



Reddish brown, shining, with a brassy tinge, thorax and 

 head darker, pubescence grey ; the head in the female very 

 densely punctate, in the male the punctures are less close, frontal 

 carina feebly emarginate ; the thorax rather closely punctured, 

 punctures deep and round, sides parallel in male, anterior 

 angles rounded off anteriorly in female, hind angles short 

 and blunt and with a narrow margin behind the neck red ; 

 the scutellum closely punctured ; the elytra punctate-striate, 

 interstices convex and rugosely punctulate ; the anteimae, 

 three basal joints red, others dusky, second and third joints 

 equal ; the epipleurai and legs reddish brown. 



I have a dark variety in which the basal joints of the 

 antennae are marked with black. 



Hab. Oyayama, Nikko, Miyanoshita, and Kashiwagi. 



Limonius imitans, sp. n. 



^nescens, nitidus, fulvo-pubescens ; thorace sat dense punctulato ; 



scutello carinato ; clytris late testaceo-vittatis. 

 L. 7| mill. 



Greenish bronze, shining ; the head densely punctulate 

 and uneven between the eyes, frontal carina feebly emar- 

 ginate ; the thorax somewhat long, rather parallel laterally, 

 rather hnely and closely, not densely, punctured ; the scutel- 

 lum markedly carinate ; the elytra punctate-striate, interstices 

 punctulate and feebly rugose, interstices of the fifth, sixth, 

 and seventh stria3 testaceous, this colour also extends nar- 

 rowly along the base ; the antennae black and moderately 

 dilated after the third joint, third joint scarcely longer than 

 the second ; the legs black, tibia^ and claws pale. 



L. vittatus, Cand., in colour closely resembles this species, 

 but the first cannot be mistaken for the female of the second, 

 as the antenna of C. vittatus are the most dilated. In L. vit- 



