the Tenebrionidre of Japan. 379 



Phellopsis suberea, Lew. (PI. XIII. fig. 1.) 

 Phelloptis suberea, Lew. Ent. xx. 1887, p. 219. 



Hob. Yuyama and Cliiuzenji. Found on a boletus attached 

 to a large deciduous oak. 'J^venty specimens. 



Blaps japonensis, Mars. 



Leptocdenajaponensis, Allard, Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. (5) x. 1880, p. 320 ; 

 ibid. 1882, p. 133, tig. 125. 



The type of this specie.s is in the Hates collection in the 

 British ^luseum ; Marseul placed the species in Blaps, and 

 in 1880 Allard founded a subgenus to receive it; but his 

 name has not been accepted by European entomologists. 



Hab. "Japan" {Dates). 1 did not meet with it. 



MiCROPEDiNUS, gen. nov. 



The characters of this genus are for the most part the 

 same as those of Cabirus, Mulsant, and the two small species 

 for which it is established resemble somewhat G. minutissi- 

 mus, Muls, The distinctive differences of Micropediniifs are 

 that the forehead is not emarginate anteriorly, as in Pedinus 

 and Opatrum ; the elytra are punctate, not striate, and in 

 the male the tarsi on the anterior and intermediate tibiaj are 

 transverse and very wide, the second and third joints being 

 the widest. The tarsi in the female are as wide as those of 

 the male of C. minutissimus, Muls. If European entomolo- 

 gists do not consider these characteristics sufficient to found 

 a genus on, my name will serve for Cabirus, as Mulsant's 

 name was occupied by Hlibner in Lepidoptera as early as 

 1816. 



Micropedinus algcuj sp. n. 



Piceus vel niger, parum nitidus, supra punctatus ; elytris baud 



striatis ; antennis pedibusque dilutioribus. 

 L. 4|-5| mm. 



Piceous or nearly black, somewhat shining ; the head and 

 thorax very distinctly punctate, punctures dense at the sides, 

 rather less closely set on the disks ; the scutellum is trans- 

 verse and rounded off posteriorly at the sides ; the elytra, 

 bases punctured like the disk of the thorax, but on the middle 

 of the dorsum to the apices the punctures gradually become 



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