SYMBIOTES DURYI, A NEW SPECIES OF 

 ENDOMYCHIDAEi-'- 



( Contributions from the Biological Laboratory, Kenyon 



College, No. 7.) 



The genus Symbiotes of the family Endomychidae be- 

 longing to the Coleoptera has prior to the year 1908, been 

 unrepresented by any described species from North Amer- 

 ica although Leconte and Horn (1883) erroneously re- 

 ferred Rhymbus ulkei Crotch, and Khymbus minor 

 Crotch, to this genus in their classification of the Coleop- 

 tera of North America. 



Consequently it was with much interest that the writer 

 in November, 1907, collected two specimens at Gambier, 

 O., which through acquaintance with the European rep- 

 resentatives of Symbiotes were immediately referred to 

 that genus. This occurred only a few days prior to the 

 annual Thanksgiving meeting of the Ohio Academy of 

 Science at Oxford, presided over by the President, Mr. 

 Charles Dury, of Cincinnati, an indefatigable collector of 

 Coleoptera as well as a keen student of nature. It there- 

 fore seemed most appropriate that the name duryi should 

 be conferred upon the species which had so opportunely 

 presented itself, an idea which was carried into effect at 

 the meeting, the specimens also being exhibited. 



This was noted in the Proceedings of the Academy for 

 1907 (mailed about June 1, 1908). Blatchley, (1910), 

 after communicating with the writer as to the systematic 

 arrangement of the Endomychidae and the generic char- 

 acters of the genus Symbiotes for his forthcoming paper 

 on the Coleoptera of Indiana, gave a description of '^Sym- 

 biotes duryi Walton MS" (p. 536) in that most excellent 

 report. The collection and study of representatives of 



^Read before the meeting of the Ohio Academy of Science, Columbus, Decem- 

 ber 1, 1911. 



* Reprinted from The Ohio Naturalist, vol. 12 (1912), pp. 461-464. 



