192 Mr. G. Lewis on the Japanese Cleridse. 



marginal spot black ; the second is transverse and very 

 slightly oblique ; the legs and tarsi are wholly red. 



There is a variety with red antenife, the thorax wholly red 

 and having the elytral marginal spot obliterated, leaving the 

 space behind the humeral angle pale. 



Hah. Main island. Found at Nikko and Chiuzenji in 

 June 1880. 



Lyctosoma, gen. no v. 



Head half the length of the thorax, rounded off at the 

 sides ; the eyes small and little prominent, coarsely granu- 

 late, semicircular in front, feebly emarginate behind ; palpi 

 fusiform. Antennse half as long again as the head ; first joint 

 bulbiform, with an inconspicuous funicle ; second stouter and 

 round, breadth equal to length ; third to fifth longer and not 

 so robust ; sixth to eighth moniliform ; ninth to eleventh form 

 a lax club, terminal joint being longer than the tenth and of 

 a short oval form. Thorax parallel at the sides, gradually 

 rounded off behind and before ; elytra parallel until just before 

 the apex ; the thighs rather robust, anterior tarsi short and 

 transverse, claws with a small inconspicuous process near the 

 base. 



This genus may be placed near llianerocleruSj on account 

 of the structure of the antennai, legs, and tarsi. The species 

 has a certain resemblance to a small specimen of Lyctus 

 brunneuSf Steph. 



Lyctosoma parallelmn^ sp. n. 



Elongatum, parallelum, t'ermgineura ; antennis pedibusque corpore 



concoloribus. 

 L. 3 mill. 



Elongate, parallel, wholly ferrugineous, sparingly hirsute ; 

 the head sparsely covered with somewhat acicular punctures ; 

 the thorax more thickly punctured, })unctures oval ; the elytra 

 with punctures less deep and move round, but of similar 

 density. 



Hob. Kiushiu. Two examples came from under bark near 

 the temple of Suwoyama, at Nagasaki, in the spring of 1881. 



A curious species, which I consider belongs to the Tele- 

 phoridaj, has been described by me and assigned to the genus 

 Sisynophorus (Ent. Month. Mag. 1891, p. 210), but perhaps 

 later it will be well to make a new genus lor it. 1 make a 

 note of it here, as some of its allies have been included in the 

 Cleridte. 



