THE ANNALS 



AND 



MAGAZINE OF NATURAL HISTORY. 



[SIXTH SERIES.] 

 No. 77. MAY 1894. 



XLIII. — On the Tenebrionidge of Japan. 

 Bj G. Lewis, F.L.S. 



[Plate XIII.] 



On the 28th January^ 1874, Mar.seul read a paper on the 

 Heteromera of Japan before tlie Entomological Society of 

 France, and after a lapse of rather over two years it was 

 published in the ' Annales ' of the Society. Marseul's material 

 consisted chiefly of specimens gathered near Nagasaki and 

 Hiogo, and contained about fifty species of Tenebrionidas. 

 Since 1876 a few isolated notices of new species have been 

 published, which, with the new species here described, bring 

 the number known from the Japanese islands to 125. As 

 isolated notices of species are not always easy to find, I have 

 given in the list of species at the end of this paper the date 

 of the ' Zoological Record ' in which notices of such species 

 may be found. The Munich Catalogue serves up to 1870. 



The collection of Coleoptera in the National Museum has 

 been recently enriched by the addition of two important 

 collections of Heteromerous beetles, one formed by Mr. F. 

 Bates, the other by the late Mr. F. P. Pascoe. My visits 

 to South Kensington have in a large measure made the task 

 of determining the genera of my species an easy one ; and 

 when at times I have failed there, I have had the kindly 

 assistance of Mr. C. G. Champion, who has lately written on 



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