190 Mr. G. Lewis on the Japanese Cleridge. 



Tenerus Mtlleri, Harold. 



Tenerus Hilleri, Harold, Deutsch. ent. Zeitschr. 1877, p. 357. 



ffab. Main island. Taken by Herr Hiller at Hagi, in 

 Yamagiichi. 



Thaneroclerus aino, sp. n. 



Brunneus, pilosus, vix nitidus ; antennis, palpis pedibusque corpore 



concoloribus ; eapite thoraceqiie flense punctatis. 

 L. 5|-6 mill. 



There are two specimens of a species of this genus in the 

 Museum from Bombay which I consider represent T. Buqueti, 

 Lefebvre, and the Japanese species differs from them as 

 follows : — The head is smaller, the thorax more constricted 

 behind, the antennae very much stouter, club less lax, claws 

 stouter, and the punctuation of the liead and thorax is closer 

 and larger, giving an appearance of greater opacity. The 

 punctuation of the elytra is somewhat large and close from 

 the bases to tlie middle of the dorsal region ; towards the 

 apices it becomes smaller and a little scattered, especially near 

 the suture. 



Hah. Yezo. Two examples from Junsai, near Hakodate. 



Neocleeus, gen. nov. 



The species of this genus have a similar outline to tliose 

 of Thaneroclerus J but the tarsi and antennaj are very diffe- 

 rently constructed, and they are brightly coloured or prettily 

 marked. The head is less wide than the thorax ; eyes 

 coarsely granulate, lobe-shoped ; palpi short and not dilated ; 

 antennse, first joint somewhat bulbiforni anteriorly, base con- 

 stricted, second to fourth nearly coequal, fifth to eighth 

 moniliform, ninth twice the width of eighth, tenth and eleventh 

 nearly equal in size and form an oval club (in an unde- 

 scribed Ceylonese species the club is a little lax) ; the thorax 

 moderately constricted behind the middle ; the thighs robust, 

 anterior tarsi with basal joints very short and conspicuously 

 dilated. 



Neoclerus ornatuluSj sp. n. 



Rufo-brunneus, hirsutus ; capita thoraceque supra nigris ; elytris 

 coccineis, regiouo scutcllari maculisque utrinque duabus nigris ; 

 autenuis pedibusque rufo-brunneis. 



L. ^-^ mill. 



Reddish brown beneath, with legs, palpi, and antennje con- 



