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huila, Minas Viejas (Dr. Palmer), Cosamaloapam, Vera Cruz (Sallé); Costa Rica 
(Rogers); Panama, near the city ( Champion).—Kurore; Norta America, &c. 
I met with this cosmopolitan species on the beach at Panama amongst old bones 
thrown out from the slaughter-houses, and in company with Necrobia rufipes. 
DOLIEMA. 
Doliema, Pascoe, Journ. Ent. i. p. 50 (1860); F. Bates, Ent. Monthly Mag. ix. p. 98. 
Adelina, Leconte, Ann. Lyc. New York, v. p. 149 (nec Wollaston). 
Sitophagus, Horn, Rev. Ten: of Am. north of Mexico, p. 346 (nec Mulsant). 
Schedarosus, Reitter in litt. 
Mr. Pascoe described this remarkable genus upon examples from “ Batchian, Ceylon, 
and Manila.” There cannot, however, be the slightest doubt, speaking from my own 
personal observation, that the genus is indigenous in Tropical America, at least two 
species being abundant in our country in many localities quite away from civilization. 
In the British Museum collection there are additional examples of both sexes of the 
species (D. platisoides) described by Mr. Pascoe, from Java, as well as from the localities 
quoted. I cannot help thinking, however, that Doliema is a native of the New World, 
and that it must have been introduced in some way through the medium of commerce, 
many species of Tenebrionide having been thus transmitted to various parts of the 
world. In America the genus ranges from the Middle United States to the Amazons 
valley. | . 
The different species, of which some five or six (all testaceous in colour and closely 
allied) are now known, superficially resemble the Cucujide, owing to their very 
depressed or flattened form. They are found beneath bark, both in the forest region 
and in the more open parts of the country, one (D. plana) being very abundant. Mr. 
Pascoe (Joc. cit.) omits to mention the peculiar armature of the head of the male, the 
most important specific character. 
One new species from Guatemala differs from the others in wanting the sublateral 
carina to the elytra, and‘also in being very feebly convex instead of flattened ; in other 
respects, however, it agrees. 
* Upper surface plane; the elytra with sublateral carina. 
1. Doliema plana. 
? Cucujus planus, Fabr. Syst. Eleuth. ii. p. 94°. 
Adelina plana, Dej. Cat. 3rd edit. p. 340*; Lec. Ann. Lye. New York, v. p. 149°; Class. Col. 
N. A. p. 2384; Jacq. Duval in Sagra’s Hist. de Cuba (Spanish edition), vii. p. 64°. 
+ This species has not been identified by modern writers; there can be little doubt that it represents either 
our common D. plana or another species of the same genus. The following is the description :—“ QO, planus, 
testaceus, thorace punctis duobus baseos impressis. Corpus parvum, planum, testaceum, immaculatum. Thorax 
punctis duobus baseos impressis. Elytra vix striata.—Habitat in America meridionali.” 
