the Tenebrioniclae of Japan. 397 



before and beliiml ; the antennce black, with three basal 

 joints red or piceous ; the legs reddish brown, rarely black. 

 Hub. Oyayama, Kiga, and Nikko. Twenty examples. 



Scaphidema pictipenne^ sp. n. 



Ovatum, feneo-nigrum, nitidum ; thorace parum convoxo ; el} tris 



qundrifasciatis ; antcunis a bujsi pedibusque rufis. 

 L. '6\-dh mill. 



This small species is very similar to S. oi-nateUum, hut it 

 is less broad and the thorax much less conspicuously canali- 

 culate at the sides and convex on the disk ; the elytra have a 

 second fascia (although somewhat obscure) before the apex, 

 and the apices are more pointed. 



JIab. Nara. Three specimens. 



Scaphidema discale, sp. n. 



Ovatum, a?nco-nignim ; elytris obsolete maculatis vel totis a;neis ; 



autonnis a basi pcdibuscjue rufis. 

 L. 3i-4 miU. 



Ovate, brassy black, shining ; the head punctured some- 

 what closely, mouth-organs reddish ; the thorax finely and 

 sparingly ])unctured, little convex, especially behind the neck ; 

 the elytra punctate-striate, with a small tiavous disk near the 

 base on the fifth interstice ; the antennae, three basal joints 

 red, rest black; the legs reddish brown. 



'ihe punctuation of the thorax is larger and closer in this 

 species than in the others of this series ; the elytra are rela- 

 tively longer and the niaculation is confined to a small obscure 

 disk near the base of the wing-case. In a variety tlic flavous 

 disk is absent. 



IJab. Kashiwagi, Kiga, and Nikko. Six examples. 



Scaphidema nigricorne, sp. n. 



S. discali simillimum, sod differt autcnnis longioribus et totis nigris; 



elytris immaculatis ; pedibus nigris, tarsis rufescentibus. 

 L. 4 mill. 



This insect is larger than S. discale ; the thorax less finely 

 punctured and less narrowed anteriorly ; the antennae are 

 wholly black, and the legs black with reddish tarsi. It is 

 most similar to the European S. a'ueum, Payk. 



Ilab. Kiga. A single example. 



Alphitophagus japanus^ Mars. 



I have taken this species abundantly in Ceylon. In a list 

 of insects given in Teuuent's ' Ceylon,' 1861, this species 



