the Dascillide &c. of Japan. 99 
Dascillide. 
Paralichas pectinatus. 
Odontonyx pectinata, Kies. Berl. ent. Zeit. p. 242 (1874). 
This species belongs to White’s genus Paralichas (Ann. & 
Mag. Nat. Hist. iii. p. 284, 1859), and his name has two 
years’ priority over Guérin’s name of Hucteis. White figured 
the type of his genus, and gave some interesting illustrations 
of the pupal cases; similar cases may be constantly seen on 
the trunks of large trees in Japan in early summer. White 
did not observe that the claws of the species of this genus are 
finely but very clearly pectinate, and the tarsi are not dilated. 
Harold (Deutsche ent. Zeit. p. 73, 1878) erroneously stated 
that the Odontonyx pectinata, Kies., was the same as Hucteds 
bimaculata, Guérin; I have taken both species, and I find 
them distinct. The elytral striz of the males vary very much 
in depth in both species, and I consider that Fairmaire (Ann. 
Soc. Ent. Fr. vi. p. 336, 1886) is right in regarding Kucteis 
bimaculata, Guérin, and Paralichas Guerini, White, as the 
same species. 
Hab. Nagasaki, Miyanoshita, Kobé, and Nikko. 
Paralichas higonie, sp. n. (Pl. VI. fig. 1.) 
Niger, subnitidus, griseo-pubescens ; thorace basi et lateribus scutel- 
loque rufis; Q antennis articulo ultimo testaceo. 
L. 7-83 mill. 
Black, somewhat shining, with grey pubescence, pubescence 
most conspicuous on the elytral sutural margin; the head 
somewhat densely but not clearly punctured; the thorax 
broadly red on the basal half, with this colour extending ante- 
riorly along the margin to the anterior angle; the scutellum 
wholly red ; the elytra, striz fairly well-marked, interstices 
granulate and finely rugose ; the legs black, with the apices 
of the femora obscurely reddish, claws pectinate; the an- 
tenne also black, but in the female the terminal joint is 
testaceous, in the male the articulations are strongly pecti- 
nate, the appendages arising from the bases of the articula- 
tions. In the male of P. pectinatus, Kies., the appendages of 
the antenne rise from the apical portions of the articulations ; 
but in the female the form is closely similar to that of 
P. higone. a 
