the Tcnebriouidm of Japan. 469 



Ilah. Oyayaina, \ uvaiiia, Usiii-to|^e, and oa the plaiii of 

 Fiijidan. Common. 



Toxicum /unguium, sp. n. 



rarum olongatiim, subcylindriciim ; thorace trunsvcrso, post ice ot 



aiitico hisinuato ; elytris striato-puactatis. 

 L. l^j-l^i miU. 



Densely black, opaque, somewhat elongate ; the head irre- 

 gularly punctate ; the thorax also irregularly not closely- 

 punctate, transverse, bisiuuate before and behind, lateral 

 margin narrowly elevated; the scutelluni im[)unetate ; the 

 elytra striate-punctate, interstices tiat ; the antennte, two 

 basal joints and the palpi piceous. Tlie male with two 

 upright, somewhat slender horns, rather close together, on the 

 edge of the clypeus, and two larger and longer ones oa the 

 inner ocular edge, little bent and clothed at and near the 

 apices with long fulvous or reddish hair. In less developed 

 specimens the edge of the clypeus has two tubercles, and the 

 horns near the eyes are short and only clotlied on their apices. 

 The female has a well-marked semicircular carina on the 

 inner edge of the eye. 



Hab. Ichiuchi, Nara, and near the lake of Ogura. Twenty 

 specimens. 



Toxicum tuber culifronSy sp. n. 



Atrum, opacum, parum elongatum ; thorace postice bisiiiuato ; elytris 



puuctato-striatis. 

 L. il|-14 mill. 



Densely black, opaque, somewhat elongate ; the head irre- 

 gularly punctured, punctures sometimes largest between the 

 eyes ; the thorax rather broader than long, not very closely 

 punctured, anterior angles a little produced, not sinuous be- 

 hind the head, bislnuous at the base, lateral margin narrowly 

 canaliculate ; the scutelluni obscurely punctured ; the elytra, 

 stride very faint or shallow near the suture and punctate, near 

 the apex and outer margins the wing-cases are more clearly 

 punctate-striate. The male has a well-marked tubercle in the 

 middle of the frontal edge, with the angles before the eyes 

 well-raised and a ridge on the interior edge of the eye which 

 is most prominent in front. The female has only a similar, 

 but rather less elevated, ridge over the eye. 



Hab, Oyayaraa, Tokio (Tanaka), and Nara. Fifteen 

 examples, 



Ann. d; Mnj. N. Hist. Ser. G. Vol. xiii. ->2 



