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Show 1888.] COLEOPTERA F R O M KOREA. 371 OMASEUS FORTIS, Morawitz, Bull. Ac. St. Petersb. 1863, p. 252. Also coast of Manchuria and Japan. Gensan ; three examples, agreeing with the Japanese form, but somewhat smaller in size. DOLICHUS FLAVICOUNIS, Fabr. Taken in plenty at Gensan. A well-known South-European species, extending through Turkestan to Eastern Asia and Japan. ANCHOMENUS (LIMODROMUS) MAGNUS, Bates, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1873, p. 278. Found also throughout Eastern China to the Yang-tsze, and in Japan. PHEROPSOPHUS JESSOENSIS, Morawitz, Bull. Ac. St. Petersb. 1863, p. 322. Gen?an ; many examples, closely resembling the Japanese form. DRYPTA DENTATA, Rossi. Gensan; a single example, differing from West-European and British specimens only in the slightly finer punctuation of the elytra and the stronger dorsal furrow of the thorax. I do not find the species mentioned in Von Heyden's Catalogue of the Coleoptera of Siberia (1881). Fam. COPRID..E. SCARAB-EUS SACER, Linn., var. PEREGRINUS, Kolbe, Archiv f. Naturgeschichte, 1886, p. 184, t. xi. f. 26. Mr. Leech obtained two examples of this insect, in this eastern extremity of its wide range. The Korean variety differs from the typical Mediterranean form chiefly in the dark-brown hair-fringes of the hind tibiae. The species has not hitherto been found in Japan. COPRIS OCHUS, Motschulsky, Etud. Entom. 1860, p. 13. A common insect in Japan. COPRIS TRIPARTITA, Waterhouse, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1875, p. 74. Found also in Japan. ONTHOPHAGUS RUGULOSUS, Von Heyden, Deutsch. ent. Zeits. 1886, p. 289. Described from examples from the neighbourhood of Peking. Mr. Leech obtained a fair series of both sexes at Gensan. ONTHOPHAGUS LENZII, Harold, Abhandl. nat. Ver. Bremen, iv. 1875, p. 290. Also found in Japan. ONTHOPHAGUS FODIENS, Waterhouse, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1875, p. 75. Also a Japanese insect. |
