198 MALACODERMATA. 
except Niptus; and the singularly swelled apical joint, together with the deeply 
punctate elytra and five-jointed tarsi, seem to me to debar its being placed in the same 
genus with such insects as VV. gonospermt. 
1. Pitnus pygmeus. (Tab. X. fig. 8.) 
Ater, capite prothoraceque subopacis; elytris subglobosis, profunde punctato-striatis, punctis majoribus subcre- 
natis ; antennis articulo ultimo incrassato suborbiculari. Long. 1 millim. . 
Hab. Guatrmata, Paraiso (Champion). 
This is the smallest species of the family with which I am acquainted. The colour 
is totally black; the elytra have a few minute pilose hairs. The artist has drawn ten 
joints to the antenne; they are, however, really nine-jointed. A single specimen is all 
that has yet been found. 
Subfam. ANOBIIDES. 
This section of the Ptinide is distinguished from the Ptinides by the more oblong 
form of the body, and by their being not of different forms in the sexes, as well as by 
the species having antenne either serrate or with the three terminal joints enlarged or 
very much lengthened. Of this subfamily a great many new genera have lately been 
erected by authors. It is no doubt a more extensive one than the last and as widely 
distributed. Many new species have been recently described from Australia, New 
Zealand, and the Pacific islands. They are no doubt also well represented in both 
North and South America. 
A monographic revision is now much to be desired. While some of the species have 
inquiline habits, like those of the Ptinides, many are truly xylophagous; one species 
has been recorded as infesting the galls of a Cynips. 
PTILINUS. 
Ptilinus, Geoffroy, Hist. Ins. Par. i. p. 64 (1762). 
Twelve species of this genus are described. It appears to be of wide distribution : 
one species is described from California; and one has been recorded from Japan. 
1. Ptilinus, sp. 
Hab. Guatemata, El Tumbador (Champion). 
Three species of Ptilinus are recorded in Crotch’s Check-list of Coleoptera of America 
north of Mexico; and the single male specimen taken by Champion is very probably 
identical with one of them. 
LASIODERMA. 
Lasioderma, Stephens, Ill. Brit. Ent. v. p. 417 (1882). 
The species of this genus are for the most part European; but two are recorded 
