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1912. Pic (Coleop. Cat. Junk. Anobiidse, p. 48; still includes flabellicornis 



Sturm as a valid species in Xyltl'inus. 

 1914. KLEIXE CBerl. Ent. Zeits., 58, 1913, p. 160; lists crenipennis Mo- - 



from the East Indies as a valid species in the Ipid genus Xyleborus. 

 1914. DURY CJourn. Cincinnati Soc. Xat. Hist., p. 16Sj describe- in- 



drus fulvomaculatus n. sp., from Alabama and Florida, which is 



apparently a small species of Eutom 

 1914. DURY (Journ. X. Y. Ent. Soc., xxn, p. 173; defines the Cioidse so as 



to exclude -i the Rhipidandrinae which form a tribe in the family 



Tenebrionidae." 

 1914. LEXG A.VD MCTCHLER (Bull. Am. Mus. Xat. Hist., xxxm, pp. 461- 



462j cite the two West Indian species under three generic and four 



specific names under which they have been recorded by Salle. 



Arrow and Gorham. 

 (1914? Gebien in a letter mentions descriptions of new forms in this group 



that were to appear shortly in the Bulletin of the Sarawak Museum, 



but the writers have not yet seen this journal.) 



The position of the Rhipidandri still appears very vague. 

 Sharp was probably mistaken about the front tarsal joints, for 

 the writers can find but four joints, as in the Cioidse, in all tarsi 

 of Rh. flabellicornis, Eu. cornutus, peninsularis and fuscomaculatus, 

 while the tarsi of Eledona are typically heretomerous. The 

 value of this character may have been overestimated The 

 antennae do not differ essential!}', and it is interesting to note that 

 Sharp & Muir (Tr. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1912, p. 3, p. 618 and 619) 

 have tentatively grouped a number of "Heteromerous" families 

 with the Cioidoe in the superfamily Cucujoidea, but say the sede- 

 agus in Cis is not similar to anything else. The Rhipidandri 

 appear to be intermediate between Eledona and the Cioidse in 

 many of their characters and are probably worthy of family rank, 

 but the undescribed genus from Borneo, above referred to, seems 

 to link them more closely with the latter than does Bolitolcemus 

 to Eledona. It is to be regretted that no larvse of any member 

 of this group are at hand. The only description of the immature 

 form is by Friedenreich and has been abstracted by Arrow. 



At the meeting of November 1, 1914 a special committee con- 

 sisting of A. Busck, E. A. Schwarz and X. Banks presented the 

 following which was ordered printed. 



THEODORE N. GILL. 



There is no need in this brief notice to attempt any eulogy of Dr. 

 Gill. As one of the greatest naturalists of the age his accomplish- 



