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PTINIDiZE 



Ptinus 



21161. ocellxis Brown 29-109 Vane. 



ANOBlIDiZE 



Xarifa Ptilinus 



21162. lobata Fall 29-57 Cal. 21163. flavipennis Csy. valid, 



fide R.Hopp. 28-8 

 12866 = 12865, fide R.Hopp. 28-8 



BOSTRICHIDiiC 



Stephanopaohys Dinapate 



(Prostephanus) 12923. See Fenyes, Rovart Lapok VIII, 4, 



21164. apax Lesne 30-102 Ariz. Garnett, Ent. News, 1918, p. 41. 



Polycaon 



{Heterarthron) 



21165. parvulum Lesne 25-29 Cal. 



FSOIDi?: 



This family includes the following genera, usually placed in the 



Bostrichidse: 



Stephanopachys, Rhizopertha, Dinoderus, as well as tlie tribe Tsoini, 

 according to Boving and Craighead, qutoting Saalas and Lesne. It is a 

 part of the series Bostriclioidea. Frtom that series, on larval characters, 

 the families Ciidse (= Cisidse) and Sphindidae are to be removed, the 

 first to the new series Cleroidea. composed of Dermestidse. Melyridje, 

 Ostomatidce, Cleridte; the second to the Cucujoidea. "The larva of the 

 Sphindidfe," says Dr. Boving, "represents unquestionably a simple, 

 primitive cucujoid type, but its more precise systematic position is 

 rather uncertain." Compare also P. de Peyerimhoff, Etudes sur \e!> 

 larves des col^opteres, Ann. Soc. Ent. France, 1921. dp 109-110 



CIID^ (CISID/E) 



Dr. Boving, while finding part of the larval characters suggestive of 

 bostrichoid relationship, states that other characters "speak strongly 

 against a taxonomic position within the Bostrichoidea and tor the asso- 

 ciation with the Cleroidea." Peyerimhoff in 1933, places Cildffi after 

 Tenebrionidae in the series Cucujoidea, with Schwarz and Barber, 1914, 

 p. 177, as authority, but adds in a footnote, "11 faut bicn leur donner 



une place." 



