THE ANNALS 



AND 



MAGAZINE OF NATURAL HISTOEY. 



[SIXTH SERIES.] 

 No. 10. OCTOBER 1888. 



XXXVI. — The StapliylinidaB of Japan. 

 By Dr. D. Sharp. 



This memoir is intended to add to our knowledge of the 

 Coleoptera of Japan by description of the new species of 

 Staphy]inid« obtained by Mr. George Lewis during his tour 

 in the islands in 1880-81, Previous to the year 1874 only 

 three or four species of the family Staphylinidse were known 

 as occurring in Japan ; but in that year I enumerated, in the 

 ' Transactions of the Entomological Society of London/ lliO 

 species that had been obtained in the islands by Mr. Lewis 

 during his first residence there ; this total has since been 

 increased, by Weise and others to 218, as recorded in Herr 

 von Schonfeldt's recent Catalogue of the Coleoptera of Japan. 

 To this number I am now able to add 249, making a total of 

 467 species of the family at present known as inhabiting the 

 archipelago. 



Thanks to the efforts of Mr. Lewis we have attained a fair 

 knowledge of the Coleoptera of the Japanese islands, his 

 entomological work there having resulted in the formation of 

 a collection of about 4000 or 5000 species of the order. Some 

 considerable parts of this large and interesting collection have 



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