112 Mr. G. Lewis on 
Black, shining, parallel; head in front of the eyes, mouth- 
organs, three basal antennal joints, thighs, and tibix clear 
testaceous. ‘The head biimpressed between the eyes, black 
portion finely punctulate ; the thorax nearly quadrate, lateral 
and posterior edges elevated, anterior angles rounded off, 
median channel wide and ill-defined; the scutellum rather 
long, punctulate, and widest at the base; the elytra rather 
long, parallel at the sides, finely and rather rugosely sculp- 
tured; the antenna, second joint a little longer than the third, 
three basal joints more or less testaceous; the legs clear 
testaceous, tarsi blackish, claws with strong inner tooth. 
Hab. Fukushima. ‘Two examples. 
Telephorus japonicus. 
Cantharis japonica, Kies. Berl. ent. Zeit. p. 266 (1874). 
This species is, perhaps, the commonest and most generally 
distributed of any in Japan. The claws of the male are bifid. 
Sometimes, though rarely, the thorax and elytra are wholly 
testaceous. 
Hab. Found in all the islands. Very common at Miyano- 
shita in May and in Nagasaki in March and April. 
Telephorus vulcanus, sp. n. 
Fuscus ; capite antice, antennis thorace (plaga in medio excepta) 
pedibusque anterioribus testaceis. 
L. 64 mill. 
Dusky grey, head, mouth-organs, antenne, thorax (except 
a central patch), elytral margins, anterior legs, intermediate 
and posterior thighs testaceous ; the head feebly punctulate ; 
the thorax little broader than long, anterior angles well 
rounded off, hinder margin just before the angle feebly 
sinuous, anterior and posterior edges raised, sides somewhat 
explanate ; the scutellum semicircular apically, clothed like 
the elytra; the elytra, the pale margin widens out from the 
middle of the dorsum to the scutellum, outer margins nar- 
rower; the legs, tibiz and tarsi of the two hinder pair infus- 
cate, claws simple. 
This species is shorter and more robust than any other of 
this series. 
Hab. Junsai. One female example only. 
Silis pectinata, sp.n. (Pl. VI. fig. 3.) 
Nigra, nitida, parallela, griseo-pubescens; thorace rufo inciso ; 
antennis valde pectinatis, nigris. 
L. 5 mill. 
o 
