136 Mr. G. Lewis on new Japanese Histeride. 
abdominal segments and also in its outline. Lister faedatus 
and marginicollis, with H. aino and agratus, have segments 2-4 
of the abdomen much contracted in the middle ; and the result 
of this is that the pygidium is reflexed by being drawn up 
towards the sternum. 
I obtained my specimens from a dead fowl, set as a trap 
for necrophagous insects, at Nikko, in the forest behind the 
temples, in June 1880. 
Hister sutus, n. sp. 
Suborbicularis, convexiusculus, niger, nitidus; stria frontali sub- 
transversa ; pronoto subtiliter et parce punctulato; elytris striis 
1-3 integris, 4 ante basin abbreviata, 5 et 6 ante medium ter- 
minatis; prosterno basi bistriata; mesosterno sinuato, margine 
punctato-striato. L. 4 mill. 
This species is of the same stature as /. ruficornis, and pos- 
sesses some of its characters, but the two thoracic strie bring 
it into the H. cadaverinus group. 
It is apparently rare. 1 obtained only four specimens from 
the elevated forest above Kiga, near Miyanoshita, in May 
1880. 
Epierus lucés, n. sp. 
Ovalis, parum convexus, niger, nitidus; antennis rufis, pedibus 
piceis ; pronoto punctulato; elytris striis 5 dorsalibus et suturali 
integris ; propygidio pygidioque dense punctatis. L. 23 mill. 
Larger and more ovate than EL. comptus ; the head is very 
finely punctured, with a transverse stria between the eyes. The 
thorax is clearly punctate, and rather thickly so at the base, 
in front of the scutellum ; the interstices of the elytral strize 
are all finely punctured. 
The type of this species came from a rotten tree in the 
grounds of the Kasuga no Miya, at Nara, June 1881, and I 
believe all the species of this genus are of arboreal habits. 
I have only one specimen. 
6 f 
Notodoma fungorum, n. sp. 
Globosum, rufo-castaneum, nitidum, punctatum ; elytris punctato- 
striatis, 1, 2 et 4 integris, 4 antice cum suturali arcuatim juncta ; 
tibiis multispinosis. L. 33 mill. 
When in Paris, I carefully compared this species with Mar- 
seul’s type of NV. globatum from India, and found it distinct, but 
closely allied. ‘Ihe size is larger and the punctuation more 
coarse, and there is a slight difference in the form of the striz. 
On the humeral angle, and in the space between the second 
