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Type and paratype U. S. N. M. No. 21,053. 



Described from two specimens received in 1901 from P. L. 

 Stangl which are labelled Bay, Laguna Province, Philippine 

 Islands. In the type the humeral timbone is produced posteriorly 

 into a carina for a third the length of the elytra and the outline 

 of the head is slightly different but these are believed to be 

 variational or sexual differences. When received both examples 

 were covered with a thin opaque grayish encrustation which en- 

 tirely obscured the surface sculpture, exposing only a few of the 

 club-shaped setae on the margins and on the tubercles. With 

 the aid of a fine needle it was possible to scale off this incrusta- 

 tion from one side of one specimen; the setae being fast in the 

 incrustation were naturally removed with it. 



Fourteen species are now recognized in the genus only two of 

 which are before us. From the literature at hand the twenty- 

 two specific names proposed in this genus may be listed as follows: 



LIST OP SPECIES OF Spercheus. 



algoensis Peringuey 1892 South Africa 



australiK Peringuey 1892 South Africa 



capicola Peringuey 1892 South Africa 



rerisyi Guerin Meneville 1835 Egypt 



cerysii Lacordaire 1854 

 (costatus Castelnau 1840) == senegalensis 



crenulatus Fairmaire 1893, Kolbe 1897 East Africa 



crenaticollis Regimbart 1906 East Africa 



distinguendus Fairmaire 1893 and 1903) == senegalensis 



emarginatus Auctorum Europe 



luridus Mathieu 1858 



sordidus Marsham 1802 



verrucosus Marsham 1802 



hovanus Fairmaire 1903 Madagascar 



humeralis Regimbart 1906 East Africa 



interruptus Fairmaire 1892 East Africa 



(luridus Mathieu 1858) == emarginatus 



mulsanti Perroud 1864 New Caledonia 



prisons Sharp 1875, Fauvel 1883. . : Queensland 



platycephalus MacLeay 1825, Castelnau 1840, Lacordaire 1854 Java 



(priscus Sharp 1875) == mulsanti 



( Senegal 



xiiirgtilensisLaporte 1832, Gucrin-Mcncville 1835, Castelnau j , 



1840, Lacordaire 1854, Fairmaire 1893, 1903 



| Madagascar 



[Zanzibar 



sulcalus Gory in Guerin-Meneville 1835. 

 costatus Castelnau 1840. 



