1922.] 79 



Dasytes fiiscipennis Hope, loc. cif. '^ ; Lea, op. cit. p. 241 *. 



AcaniTiocnemus ciliatus Pervis, Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1866, p. 188 5; 

 Schilsky, in Kiister's Kiif. Europas, xxxi, no. 16 (1895) '^ ; Bourg., Bull. 

 Soc. Ent. Fr. 1904, pp. 25, 26 7. 



Acantliocnemus triKiuii Baudi, Berl. ent. Zeitschr. 1873, p. 3218. 

 Acmithocnemiis fauveli Bourg. Rev. d'Ent. 1884, p. 289 9. 



Eurema dilutum Abeille de Perrin, L'Echange, x, p. 93 (1894) i" ; 

 Bull. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1896, p. 261 ^i. 



AcantJiocnemus Jcraatzi Schilsky, Deutsche ent. Zeitschr. 1896, 

 p. 361 13, 



Hovacnemus pallitarsis Fairm. Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg. xlii, p. 232 

 (1898)13. 



Hah. Australia 7; S. Australia, Adelaide i-* (-For^'^i^wj: types in 

 3Im. Oxon. ; Mus. Brit. ) ; W. Australia * ; New South Wales * ; 

 Queensland'*^; Tasmania^; New Caledonia 9; Siam (Vitalis de 

 Salvaza : iv.l920) ; Burma {coll. H. JE. Andrewes) ; India, Tenas- 

 serim7 (Fea : 1887); Madagascar is ; S. and N.W. Ehodesia, 

 various localities (Dr. Marshall, H. G. Dollman : 1901-1915) ; 

 Guinea 13; Algeria lO; Corsica ^ 6; Sardinia H; Cyprus 8. 



According to Mr. Lea'^, this is probably the most widely distributed 

 Malacoderm beetle in Avistralia, occurring under the bark of Eucalyptus- 

 trees, and also coming to light at night. It would therefore appear that 

 Australia is the real home of A. nigricans, Fortnum having captured 

 specimens at Adelaide as long ago as 1841. The next record, 

 1866, is that of an example found by Reveliere under the bark of a 

 juniper in Corsica. Presumably the insect has been transported by 

 commerce, either in the larval or imaginal condition, in cereals, etc., like 

 Plochionus 2)nllens, Tenehroides mauritanicus, Silvanus suriuamensis, 

 Flatycotylus inusitatus, etc., and has now become cosmopolitan 

 throughout the warmer parts of the Old World. The present writer has 

 recorded * the capture of living examples of an Argentine Dasytid, 

 Astylus atromaculatus Blanch., at Durban and Pretoria, which were 

 probably brought there in hay dunng the Boer War. 



Horsell. 



31arch 1922. 



* Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (9) ii, p. 352 (Oct. 1918). 



