CiiD^ 37 



ptinid;!e 



Ptinus 



21161. ocellus Brown 29-109 Vane. 



ANOBIIDiZE 



Xarifa Ptilinus 



21162. lobata Fall 29-57 Cal. 21163. flavipennis Csy. valid, 



fide R.Hopp. 28-8 

 12866 = 12865, fide R.Hopp. 28- 



BOSTRICHID^E 



Stephanopachys Dinapate 



(Prostephanus) 12923. See Fenyes, Rovart Lapok VTII, 4; 



21164. apax Lesne 30-102 Ariz. Garnett, Ent. News, 1918, p. 41. 



Polycaon 



(Heterarthron) 



21165. parvulum Lesne 25-29 Cal. 



psoid;e 



This family includes the following- genera, usually placed in the 



Bostrichidse : 



Stephanopachys, Rhizopertha, Dinoderus, as well as the tribe Psoini, 

 according- to Boving and Craighead, qu'oting- Saalas and Lesne. It is a 

 part of the series Bostrichoidea. Fi^om that series, on larval characters, 

 the families Ciidae ( z= Cisidje) and Sphindidae are to be removed, the 

 first to the nev.' series Cieroidea, composed of Dermestidas, INIelyridae, 

 Ostomatidse, Cleridse; the second to the Cucujoidea. "The larva of the 

 Sphindidte," says Dr. Boving, "represents unquestionably a simple, 

 primitive cucujoid type, but its more precise systematic position is 

 rather uncertain." Compare also P. de Peyerimhoff, Etudes sur les 

 larves des coleopteres, Ann. Soc. Ent. France, 1921. pp 109-110 



C!iD^ (CISID/E) 



Dr. Boving-, while finding- part of the larval characters suggestive of 

 bosti-ichoid relationship, states that other characters "speak strongly 

 against a taxonomic position within the Bostrichoidea and for the asso- 

 ciation with the Cieroidea." Peyerimhoff in 1933, places Ciidce after 

 Tenebrionidffi in the series Cucujoidea, with Schwarz and Barber, 1914, 

 p. 177, as authority, but adds in a footnote, "il faut bien leur donner 



une place." 



