146 MALACODERMATA. 
AULICUS. 
Aulicus, Spinola, Rev. Zool. 1841, p. 74; Mon. i. p. 828. 
This genus is here retained for the American species, the Australian insects usually 
referred to it being considered distinct, as I have already suggested (Cistula Ent. 
1876, p. 84), and as, indeed, Spinola anticipated would have to be done. The two 
genera have, in fact, no particular resemblance. The typical species is not in any 
collection I have examined ; it was in that of Dupont. 
1. Aulicus nero. 
Aulicus Nero, Spin. Mon. i. p. 330°, t. 27. fig. 5. 
Hab. Mexico}. 
I have not seen this species; but it is evidently nearly allied to the following one. 
2. Aulicus monticola, (Tab. VIII. fig. 18.) 
Sallea monticola, Dugés (sec. Sallé coll.). 
Niger; capite rufo, antennis, palpis et mandibulis nigris, supra rugose punctato; prothorace parcius fortiter 
punctato, griseo-piloso, rufo, margine antico et vitta mediana lata nigris; elytris chalybeis, humeris 
fasciaque infra medium ad suturam interrupta et margine ante fasciam rubricatis; abdomine ante apicem 
rufo. Long. 8-13 millim. 
Hab. Mexico, Guanajuato (Dugés, coll. Sallé), Tupatero (Sallé). 
Spinola has remarked on the resemblance of A. nero to Serriger reichei; and a speci- 
men of the present species which I obtained from Mr. Waterhouse’s collection bore 
that name. It has a good deal the appearance of Trichodes viridifasciatus. 
Both pairs of palpi are terminated by a broadly triangular joint. The antenne have 
the joints preceding the club simple. The eyes are finely faceted. The tarsi with the 
basal joint not distinct from above; the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th with well-developed lamelle ; 
the claws simple. 
3. Aulicus coffini, 
Serriger Coffint, White, Cat. Cleride, p. 53°. 
Sallea Coffint, Chevr. Rev. et Mag. Zool. 1874, p. 86; Gorham, Cist. Ent. 1876, p. 72. 
Hab. Mexico! (Coll. Gorham ex Saunders), Puebla (Sal/é). 
Neither this nor A. monticola have any affinity or resemblance to Sallea necrobioides, ° 
Chevr., which has only the labial palpi with a hatchet-shaped terminal joint. 
Two specimens are in the Sallé collection, and two in my own. It is also in 
M. Chevrolat’s and other collections, but is rare. 
