14 A HEVISION OF THE GENUS CLIDICUS. 



NOTE TIL 

 A REVISION OF THE GENUS CLIDICUS 



BY 



E. WASMANN S. J. 



This interesting genus of gigantic Scydmaenidae 

 was described by Laporte , corate de Castelnau , in the 

 Ann. Soc. Entom. de France, 1832, p. 396, and based on 

 the first known species Glidicus grandis; the same species 

 has been figured in the Atlas of the Genera des Coléo- 

 ptères of Lacordaire, tab. 16, fig. 4, and Fairraaire (Ann. 

 Soc. Ent. de France, 1856, p. 31 7) added some complementary 

 remarks to its description. In 1863 Pascoe (Journ. of En- 

 tomology, II, p. 28, plate II, fig. 3) described a second spe- 

 cies as CI. formicarius. A third species , CI. taphrocephalus, 

 was added by Gestro in 1878 in the Ann. Mus. Civ. Genova 

 (XII, p. 144). The Clidicus Doriae, described by Schaufuss 

 in the Ann. Mus. Civ. Genova, 1884 [(2) I, p. 419], does 

 not differ essentially from formicarius according to Reitter 

 (Wien. Entom. Ztg. 1887, p. 64). Reitter himself described 

 (loco citato) a supposed new species of Clidicus under the 

 name of Ganglbaueri ; but this description was founded 

 upon a mistake, corrected by Reitter on p. 303 of the 

 same volume; the species, which Reitter supposed to be 

 CI. grandis Casteln. proved to be taphrocephalus Gestro, and 

 Ganglbaueri Reitter is certainly grandis of Castelnau, as 

 the latter author has described as grandis a species with 

 triangular, highly bituberculated head. 



Nevertheless I think, we must consider CI. Ganglbaueri 



Notes from the Leyden Museum, Vol. XVllI. 



