88 COLEOPTERA. 



posteriorly acumiDate shape and more strongly punctured 

 striae of its elytra. 



16. Stilbus, Seidlitz, Fauna Baltica, p. 35 (generic sy- 



nopsis) ; E. C. Rye, Ent. Mo. Mag., x, p. 138. 

 Olistherus, Seidlitz, /. c, p. 157, nee OlisthcBrus, Er. 

 A new genus proposed by Dr. Seidlitz for the reception of 

 Olibrus geminus, pieeus, and oblonguSy and distinguished 

 from Olibrus proper by its metasternum not reaching in front 

 beyond the middle coxae and being separated from the pro- 

 sternum by a distinct short mesosternum; by its front femora 

 not being hollowed out on the under margin, the apical spur 

 of its tibiae being distinct, the 2nd joint of its hind tarsi only 

 slightly elongate and narrower than the third, and by its elytra 

 having only an impressed sutural stria. 



17. CaTHARTUS (?) AD VENA. 



Cryptophugus americanus^ Dejean, Catalogue des Col., 

 &c., edn. ii, p. 123 (1821), edn. iii, 

 p. 338 (1836). 



„ ferrugineus^ Sturm, Catalog m. Ins. 



Samml., Abtheil. iii, p. 127 (1826) ; 

 Catalog der Kiifersamml., p. 235 

 (1843). 



„ advena^ (Kunze, MS.) AYaltl, Gistel 



Faunus, i. Heft iii, p. 169 (1832, 

 teste Gemminger & von Harold, Cata- 

 logus, &c., iii, p. 878 ; 1834, teste 

 Hagen, BibL Ent., p. 257) ; Silber- 

 manu's Revue Entom., ii, p. 256 

 (1834). (Kunze) Sturm, Catalog der 

 Kafersamml., p. 92 (1843). 



