THE 



ENTOMOLOGIST'S 

 MONTHLY MAGAZINE: 



VOLUME L I I . 



[THIED SEEIES, VOL. II.] 



NOTES OX MEL AN DRY II) A E (2). 

 BY G. C. CHAMPION, F.Z S. 



In Volume LI of this Magazine, April, 191'> (pp. 138-140), 

 I published some brief notes on various genera of this family, based 

 upon material in the British Museum. This paper gives a fuller 

 account of the group Eusfrophina, with descriptions of various new 

 forms. 



Ettsteophus Latr. 



Seidhtz restricts Eustrophus, type Mycetopluigvs dermestoides F., 

 to the species with the prothoracic episterna and epimera connate (a 

 character overlooked by Horn and myself), the elvtra punctate- sti'iate 

 or striato-punctate, the prostemal process abbreviated, and the posterior 

 tibiae short and stout. The Central American forms referred by me 

 to Eustrophu.^ belong to his genus Eudrophinus. E. tomentosus Say, 

 and E. niponicus Lewis, however, belong here. E. macrophthalmus 

 Eeitt., from Japan, is the type of Syiistrophus Seidl. 



EXJSTEOPHOPSIS. 



Eustrophopsis Champion, Biol. Centr.-Am., Coleopt. iv, 2, p. 77 

 (1889) ; Seidlitz, Katurg. Ins. Deutschl., v, 2, pp. 438, 440 (1898). 



Six tropical American species were included by me under this 

 genus, type Orchesia 15-maculata Cast. Seidlitz suggests (Joe. cit.) 

 that three of these would be better placed under his Eustrophinus, on 

 accoimt of their striato-punctate elyti-a, a character of no great 

 importance ; Eustrophinus, moreover, as defined by him, has the pro- 

 sternal process unemarginate at the tip, whereas it is cleft or emarginate 

 in all the species included by me under Eustrophopsis. 



