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 AIV'I> BIISI^IO<>ltAI*IIY. 



BY JOHN HAMILTON, M. D., 

 Allegheny, Pa. 



SECOl^ID E^ITIOiT. 



Since the piibliciition of the first edition several species liave been 

 discovered which were overlooked, others have been detected and 

 recorded, and Mr. A. Fauvel, Caen, France, in a paper published 

 in "Revue d'Entoniologie," vol. viii, 1889, entitled: " Liste Des 

 Coleopteres comnuins a I'Kurope et a rAnierique du Nord, d'Apres 

 le Catalogue de M. .1. llaiiiiltoii, avec reiuarques et additions," has 

 added quite a number not yet in the American catalogue, mostly 

 belonging to the Aleocharini and some other 8taphylini(le, genera 

 which have as yet received little systematic notice in America. 



In the first edition the specific names employed were those in the 

 American list, which frequently difiered from the European, and 

 this confusion has been much added to by the recent new and elab- 

 orate European catalogue, known as edition No. IV, in which 

 changes have been made in the synonymy of a number of the spe- 

 cies common to the two countries. 



To bring together these omitted species, make the necessary 

 changes in specific names, give some valuable additional distribu- 

 tion, and to utilize the knowledge derived from various correspond- 

 ence, discussions and other sources, a second edition rather than a 

 supplement seems to be required. 



In this edition the specific names, and to some extent the generic, 

 are those used in the new European catalogue, which have been 

 adopted for the sake of uniformity. Mr. Fauvel's synonymy, when 

 different, is placed in brackets. 



Tlie first edition contained 487 numbers; of the.se 15 have been 

 expunged, leaving 472 species. This edition contains 51)4 species, 

 or 122 additional to those in the first, about one-half of which are 



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