the Cisteli'Jai tfcc. of Japan. AAl 



The following notes refer to the pajier on the Tenebrioniilie 

 publislicd last year. 



1. I'hellopfin suberea, L»'W., and Pgeudonosoderrna amiireme, Ileyd., are 

 distiiift spt'cies. 1'. auiuretute is less elongate tlian P. suberea, as the 

 fipun-s uf thti two species wliich have been given shDW, and therw are 

 several other differences, notably the absence of cephalic nodules in 

 Heyden's species. This note is made necessary, (1) by my stating that 

 P. mherea was represented in the Pas^coe collection by a specimen from 

 E. Siberia (the example belongs to P. amurense), and {'2) by Champion 

 concluding the two species were identical and stating that the names 

 were synonymous (Ent. M. M. xxx. p. 114, 18U4). It was unfortunate that 

 Heyden made a new genus for amurense, and also that his name was 

 t)verlooked at the time, as the notice of it in the Zool. Record of 1886 

 occurs amongst the Byrrhidae. I have lately been able to set the matter 

 right through the kindness of Major L. von Heyden, who has sent me 

 over one of his two examples for comparison. 



2. Platyscelis gtrigicollis, sp. n. 



Ovata, convexa, nigra, subnitida ; capite grosso et rugose puuctato ; 



thorace undique punctato, utriuque strigoso ; elytris totis punctatis, 



costis vagis et evauescentibus. 

 L. 13 mill. 



Oval, convex, black, somewhat sinning; the head roughly and coarsely 

 punctate, punctures sometimes confluent and a little .strigo.«e before the 

 neck ; the thorax more clearly punctate on the disk than on the head, 

 with a few confluent punctures, strongly h^trigose longitudinally on each 

 side from behind the eyes to the base, anterior angles obtuse, posterior 

 angles neaily rectangular, faintly turning outwards; the scutellum very 

 narrow and tran.-;ver.-e and usually covered by the thorax ; the elytra 

 much less clearly punctate than the thorax, punctures smaller and more 

 irregular, least dense on the disk, and sometimes vaijuely arranged in 

 rows ; costte vague and evanescent, lateral rim evenly and narrowly 

 raised ; the antennae, terminal joint reddish apically, otherwise like the 

 legs, black. 



In size this species is intermediate between P. hiipoUthos, Pall., and 

 P. ruffifrons, Fisch., and it differs from P. punctatisaitua, Fairm., in the 

 punctuation ; the last species I know by description only. 



I{ab. " Japan " {lleyne). 



I am much indebted to Major L. von Heyden for an example ( 2 ) of 

 this species, which introduces a new genus to the Japanese fiiuna. There 

 are eight examples in the Bates collection, labelled " Manchuria," which 

 I believe belong to this species. 



3. Liehenum aeriehtspidum, Mars. 



Mr. J. J. Walker has taken thi.s species on the coast of China; and 

 Mr. Champion notes that the head is carinate, not canaUculate, as mis- 

 printed in the French ' Annals.' 



4. Epiphaleria. — P. 382, line 2^, for mesostemum read metaatemum. 



5. Leiochrinus, Westwood, 1883. 

 Fairmaire states (Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. p. 26, 1893) that Ades, Guer., 



