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THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



A LIST OF COLEOPTERA NEW TO THE FAUNA of JAPAN, 



WITH NOTICES OF UNRECORDED SYNONYMS. 



By G. Le^s, F.L.S. 



As it will still be some years before a considerable part of 

 the collection I gathered in Japan can be worked out, I am 

 induced to publish in advance a list of species occurring there, 

 but which are, up to this time, only known from other places. 

 Some on the list are well-known European species ; others are 

 known from Siberia only. The synonyms are also new. 



Xebria leechii, Bates, 1889 = Xebria sadona, Bates,'1883. 



Broscosoma elegans, Bates = Miscodera donitzi, Harold. — 

 Harold described his species from an imperfect and immature 

 specimen, and assigned it to a wrong genus. I propose therefore 

 to retain Bates's name for it. 



Siagonium haroldi, Weiss, 1879 = S. vittatum, Fauvel, 1875. 

 — This synonym is given on the authority of M. E. Fauvel. 



Saj^rifius runjjes, Paykull. — I obtained this insect at Enoshima, 

 near Yokohama. It is not rare in Em-ope. 



Shoguna, Lewis, 1889 = Pachycephala (Holocephala) , Fair- 

 maii-e, 1886. 



Ostoma gigantea, Eeitter, 1882. — This species is distinct from 

 0. grossa, Linn., which I erroneously recorded (Ent. Mo. Mag. 

 1888, p. 221) as occm'ring in Japan. Herr Eeitter has kindly 

 sent me an example of his species from Siberia, which is much 

 smaller than most of my specimens. My largest example 

 measures 20 mill. I found this species on fungi growing on 

 large oaks at the foot of Komagatake, on the 13th of July, 1880, 

 and in August I obtained it near the lake of Junsai. 



Helota fulviventris, Kolbe, 1886 = Helota gemmata, Gorh., 

 1874. 



Monotonia brevicollis of authors. — This common European 

 species occm-s rarely in Japan. 



Byrrhiis kamtschatikus, Motsch. — I obtained several specimens 

 of this species on Niohosan, at a very high elevation. 



Eurytrachelus, Thomson, 1862 = Serrugnathus, Motschulsky, 

 1861. — The type of Serrognathus castanicolor, Motsch., is an 

 immature specimen of Dorcus platynielus, Saund., although 

 Schonfeldt throws a doubt on this by separating the names in 

 his Catalogue. I placed Saunders' species in Eurytrachelus, but 

 Motschulsky's genus has the priority. 



Catharsius ochus, Motsch. = Copris ochus. — This is a true 

 Copris. Motschulsky placed it in the wrong genus. 



Geotrupes purpurascens, Waterh., 1875 =^ Geotrupes auratus, 

 Motsch., 1857. — The first name refers to a colour variety not 

 infrequent in the female. This beautiful species varies in colour. 

 The colours are blue-black, blue-green, blue, golden-green, golden- 

 red, and cupreous, with intermediate tints of each. 



