The present paper deals with the species of the genera Engina and Cantharus from Chinese coasts. The materials used in this study were collected by the Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Science in the past years. Of the following 14 species of genera Engina and Cantharus identified, 5 species (with asterisk) are the first records from China. 1. Engina pulchra (Reeve, 1846) 2. Engina mendicaria (Linnaeus, 1758) 3. Engina zonalis (Lamarck, 1822) 4. Engina lineata (Reeve, 1846) *5. Engina armillata (Reeve, 1846) 6. Engina curtisiana (smith, 1884) *7. Engina obliquicostata (Reeve, 1846) *8. Engina lanceolata (Kuroda Habe, 1971) 9. Engina contracta (Reeve, 1846) 10. Cantharus cecillei (Philippi, 1844) 11. Cantharus (Pollia) fumosus (Dillwyn, 1817) 12 Cantharus (Pollia) undosus (Linnaeus, 1758) *13. Cantharus (Pollia) eximius (Reeve, 1846) *14. Cantharus (Prodotia) iostomus (Gray, in Griffith & Pidgeon,1834) Many of the species listed above are found to occur in the South China Sea, most of them are mainly distributed in the Xisha Is., Hainan Island and Taiwan Province, two of them are distributed as far north as Fujian and Zhejiang, only one species is commonly distributed along the Chinese coasts.