the Dascillide &e. of Japan. 109 
Podabrus lictorius, sp. n. 
Niger ; capite rugoso-punctato, antice transversim testaceo ; thorace 
punctato, lateribus testaceis ; pedibus pallidis vel infuscatis. 
L. 8-83 mill. 
The head behind the eyes and snout black, roughly and 
thickly punctured, mouth-organs and a transverse area in 
which the antenne are inserted, two or three basal joints of 
the antenne, thoracic lateral margins, sutural and lateral 
margins of the elytra, and legs pale testaceous ; antenne, 
joints 4 to 11 and sometimes the third infuscate; the pale 
margins to the elytra usually join at the bases; the thorax is 
rather less coarsely and rugosely punctured than the head, 
truncate at the base, hind angles somewhat acute, sides arched 
behind the anterior angle, wholly testaceous beneath ; the 
scutellum infuscate in all the colour-forms; the abdominal 
segments infuscate; the coxe sometimes marked with black. 
Like P. malthinoides, Kies., this species has a variety with 
the head and elytra wholly black and the legs wholly dusky. 
Except in size, the facies of the two species is not very dis- 
similar; but the tarsi are relatively longer in P. lictortus than 
in P. malthinoides, this character being especially noticeable 
in the basal joints. . 
Hab. Yuyama, Tosamachi, Nishimura, Miyanoshita, and 
Nikko. 
In the following genus the antennal grooves are much 
shorter than in Athemus. 
Themus episcopalis. 
Cantharis episcopalis, Kies. Berl. ent. Zeit. p. 269 (1874). 
In 1881 I obtained some fine specimens of this species 
which measure 26 millim. Cantharis midas, Kies., may 
also be placed in the genus Themus. In Themus the antennal 
grooves of the male are very short. 
Hab. Oyayama in Higo; also Nagasaki. 
Themus cyanipennis, Motsch. 
Themus cyanipennis, Motsch. Etud. Ent. p. 28 (1857), p. 10 (1860), 
Cantharis venatriz, Kies. Berl. ent. Zeit. p. 271 (1879). 
I have an example in which the thorax is wholly cyaneous. 
Hab. Miyanoshita, Yokohama, Nikko, Hakodate, and 
other places. 
