DIS'l'ItlBUTION OF COLKOPTKRA. 365 



Obs. — Tachyusa pygrnsea Sachse = Myrviecopora crassiuscnla Aiihe, and is 

 not North American, Fauvel. 



156. Phl03opora latens Er.. major Kraatz, producla Rey. — Pennsylvania, Mis- 



souri, Iowa (Wiekliain in UU.) ; tenijierale and soiitiiern Kiiroite. Patouni. 

 Pr. 1865, 420. 



157. Aleochara lata Grav. — Occurs eve.rywliere east from the Mississippi and 



in Canada; Europe; Siberia, Japan (Sliarp), (^ape of Good Hope; South 

 .\nierica. 



158. A. fuscipes Fab., puncticeps Thonis., Cat. iv ; Insfrica Say (^l- cuHuJa Goeze, 



fuscipes Grav., lustrica Say). — Texas; same refjions as Uda ; St)i;th Am.. 

 Europe, Ciiucasia, Siberia. 



159. A. puberula Klug., vaga Er., decorata Aube, Cat. iv. ; dnbia Fauvel. — 



Georgia, M.s.souri (St. Louis); Madeira, Europe, etc. ; cosmopolitan. 



160. A. moerens Gyll., hxmorrhoidaUa Mann., Brach., 67. — Stikine River at 



Glenora, B. C, in fungi, Wickham. Temperate and northern Euiope: 

 Koult()U(rk in eastern Silieria. Heyden, 64. 



161. A. morion Grav. —'■ Nevada; Europe, Barbary, Syria, Siberia.'" 



162. A. nitida Grav., biguttula Ko].. panxtUa Rey. — "Texas, Nevada, Californi.i; 



Azores, Madeira. Euiope, Mediterranean basin, Asia Minor, Caucasia. 

 Siberia;" Lake Baicai, Amurland. Heyden. 64 and 1885. Japan, Sliarp. 



16.'5. A. verna Say, 6t»io<a<rt Kraatz, Cat. iv, var. languida Sachse; ? var. antho- 

 myke Sprague. — The United States and Canada generallj' ; Europe to 

 61°, Cape of Good Hope. This and nitida, held by some to be at least 

 varietal, Mr. A. Fauvel considers distinct species; var. anthomyiw is a 

 blackish form parasitic (truly) in the pupse of tlie cabbage mapgot, An- 

 thomyia brassica, and in that of the onion, Phorbia ceparum. Sprague, 

 Anier. Ent. ii, 370. Fletcher, Canada Experiment Farm, Rep. Ih90, 164. 



164. Microg-lossa suturalis Sahib., prsetextuta Er., Aleochara simp'icoUis Say 

 (^cZe Casey). — "Canada, Massachusetts, South Carolina, Missouri, Cali- 

 fornia; Europe, Algeria, Causasia, Persia." 



16.5. Dasyg'lossa prospera Er.— Massachusetts, Bianchard ; determined by 

 Fauvel. Garland and Vela Pass, Col., Schwarz. France; Germany; 

 .\rctic .Siberia (Kolmogorovo, Si)irina) ; Amurland. Heyden, 1885. 



166. Leptusa hsemorrhoidalis Heer, fnmida Er., Homolofa hiemahs Zimm. in 



litt. — "Massachusetts, South Carolina, Illinois, Texas;" Europe, Ear- 

 bary, Caucasia. 

 Obs. — Mr. Fauvel considers the American example determined by him as 

 Balitoehnra gracilis to be a new species [picta Fauv.]. Rev. Ent. 110, 

 since described as B. Blanchardii Casey, Ann. N. Y. Acad. Sci. vii, 369; 

 also briefly characterized by myself under the name picta, Can. Ent. 

 xxv. 276. 



167. Placusa complanata Er. — " Ma.s.«achusetts (Springfield); Europe, Cau- 



casia, Siberia." 



168. P. tachyporoides Watl., infima Er. non Fauvel ? despecta Er.— Massachu- 



setts; 1 despecta, South Carolina: Europe. Infima % Fauvel = atrata 

 Sahib., and is the infima cited from Siberia in Heyden, 67. 



169. Oligota parva Kraalz, contempta WolL— Massachusetts (Bianchard fide 



Fauvel), Missouri. Found about stables. Germany, Itr.ly, Britain. Cape 

 Verd, Madeira. 



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