CONTENTS 



Preface: Tasre 



In English v 



In Spanish vii 



In Portuguese ix 



In French xi 



Introduction 1 



List of families and higher categories 2 



List of localities 5 



Acknowledgments 8 



Systematic list 11 



Order Coleoptera: 



Suborder Archostemata 11 



Family Cupesidae 11 



Suborder Adephaga 11 



Family Rhysodidae 11 



Family Cicindelidae . 11 



Family Carabidae 20 



Family Paussidae 72 



Family Haliplidae 72 



Family Dy tiscidae 72 



Family Gyrinidae 80 



Suborder Polyphaga 83 



Family Catopidae 83 



Family Colonidae 84 



Family Clambidae 84 



Family Leiodidae 84 



Family Limnebiidae 85 



Family Sphaeriidac 85 



Family Ptiliidae 85 



Family Scydmaenidae 87 



Family Pselaphida e 88 



Family Micropeplidae 97 



Family Scaphidiidae 98 



Family Silphidae 99 



Family Staphylinidae 100 



Family Hydroiihilidae 168 



Family Synteliidae 175 



Family Monoedidae 175 



Family Histeridae 175 



[Suborder POLYPHAGA to l)e continued in Part 2] 



