the Lamellicorn Coleoptera of Japan. 407 
Nat. Hist. xiii. p. 199 (1894), and I consider now the synonymy given 
above is correct. The fine species noted last year (/. c. p. 199) I propose 
now to describe as Athous prenobilis. 
Hab. Kobé on Maiyagan, Wada-togé, Chiuzenji, and Nikko. 
Athous prenobilis, sp. n. (Woodcut, fig. 9.) 
Niger, nitidus, supra atro-cyaneus; thorace sparse nigro-hirto ; scutello 
conspicue carinato ; antennis valide pectinatis. 
L. 13-20 mill. 
Black, shining, head faintly, thorax more visibly, elytra distinctly 
cyaneous; sutural interstice frequently with a purple tinge. The head, 
frontal edge widely arcuate, punctate, punctures not closely set; the 
thorax more clearly and somewhat more finely punctured, with scattered 
Fig. 9. 
black hair, anterior angles obtuse ; the scutellum conspicuously elevated 
with a median carina, which bifurcates posteriorly (see figure) ; the elytra 
punctate-striate, interspaces somewhat convex and punctulate, sutural 
edges carinate, apices with inconspicuous black hairs; the antennz 
black, articles 3 to 10 strongly pectinate, terminal joint narrowed at the 
tip; the legs black, apices of thighs and claws reddish brown. 
Hab. Chiuzenji, Oyama, Oyayama, and Junsai. 
Lycide. 
Mesolycus atrorufus, Kiesenwetter. 
Mesolycus puniceus, Gorh. Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. p. 399, pl. xvii. fig. 3 
(1883), = Eros atrorufus, Kies. Deutsche ent. Zeit. p. 305 (1879). 
Herr R. Hiller has kindly lent me Kiesenwetter’s type, a specimen he 
obtained at Hagi in Yamaguchi. 
Taphes granicollis. 
Eros granicollis, Kies. Deutsche ent. Zeit. xxiii. p. 305 (1879) ; Gorh. 
Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. iv. p. 400 (1883). 
The type of this species also has been lent to me by Hiller. It measures 
4 millim. and has ten joints only in the antenna. Mr. Gorham considers 
