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Show 1887.] JAPANESE ENDOMYCHIDiE. 643 ANCYLOPUS, Costa. 1. A N C Y L O P U S MELANOCEPHALUS, Oliv. Mr. Lewis says this insect was very abundant in the middle of March in Mississippi Bay, Yokohama, under stones and also under planks which had been washed up by the sea. At Nagasaki it was abundant in garden-refuse early in the spring, DANAE, Reiche. ( Oediarthrus, Gerstaecker. Coniopoda, Gorham.) 1. DANAE ORIENTALIS. Coniopoda orientalis, Gorham, Ent. Mo. Mag. vol. ix. p. 205. Hab. KIUSHIU : Nagasaki, Ichiuchi, Kobe. None of the specimens captured exhibit the peculiarity of a swollen ninth joint of the antennae, yet as many have been met with, it is hardly likely but that we have received both sexes. If this is so, perhaps the generic name Coniopoda will have still to be retained for this insect. All the species are rare in collections, and I have not enough specimens to examine them in detail. D. orientalis occurs in haystack-refuse in early spring. LYCOPERDINA, Latreille. 1. LYCOPERDINA DUX, Gorh. Ent. Mo. Mag. vol. ix. p. 205. Very few specimens of this species have at present been obtained- at Hiogo in puff balls on the ground in fir-woods, three examples, and one at Yokohama. 2. LYCOPERDINA, sp. inc. A few specimens of a Lycoperdina, apparently distinct from L. dux, were obtained by Mr. Lewis at Sapporo; these specimens are of a light chestnut-yellow colour, with the exception of the legs and antennae, which are brownish yellow. The thorax is transverse instead of being nearly quadrate, as in L. dux. Three of the specimens are female and one a male, but I do not feel disposed to describe the species upon the specimens before me, as they may not be fully matured. 3. LYCOPERDINA CASTANEIPENNIS, Gorham, Ent. Mo. Mag. vol. xi. p. 151. Apparently commoner than L. dux; Mr. Lewis met with specimens at Nikko, in the Main Island, and Sado, in October, from a kind of puffballs which grew in quantities on standing but rotten beeches; also one example at Nagasaki in March 1881. 4. LYCOPERDINA MANDARINEA, Gerst. Mon. Endom. p. 212 \ Hab. C H I N A : Hongkong l. JAPAN : KIUSHIU : Nagasaki, Hiogo. Met with again by Mr. Lewis in Yezo, at Tomakomai, two specimens. |
