284 H. C. FALL. 



Bibliography and Synonomy. 



Family PTINID.E. 



Subfamily I. Ptinin^e. 



Tribe I. Gibbiini. 



1. GIBBII >l 



Scopoli, Introd. Ad. Hist. Nat. p. 505 (1777). 



Scotias Czempinski, Dessert, inaug. p. 51 (1778). 



1. G. psylloides Czemp. (Scotias), loc. cit. p. 51. 



scotias Fab. (Ptinus), Spec. Ids. i, p. 74 (1781; ; Syst. El. i, p. 327. 

 Duval, Gen. Col. Eur. iii, t. 52, fig. 260. 



2. tii;/,n«. 



Curtis, Brit. En torn, v, pi. 232 (1828). 

 1. M. americanum Lap. Hist. Nat. de Coleopt. i, p. 297. 

 bieolor Dej. Cat. ed. 3, p. 130. 

 sulcatum Woll. nun Fab. Ins. Mad. 273 (1854). 



Tribe II. Ptinini. 



1. SPH^RICIJS. 



Wollaston, Ins. Madeira, 263, pi. v, figs. 4, 5, 6 (1854). 

 Tipnus Duval, Glan. ent. i, p. 137 (1860). 

 1. S. gibboldes Boield. (Tipuus), Ann. Soc. ent. Fr. 1856, p. 669. 

 Duval (Tipnus;, Gen. Col. Eur. iii, t. 52, fig. 258. 

 Mulsant and Rev, Gibbicolles, p. 209, t. 13, figs. 4, 6, 8. 9. 



2. PITKUS. 



Gorham, Biol. Cent. Amer. Col. iii, pt. 2, p. 197 (July, 1883). 

 1. P. pygrnseus Gorh. loc. cit. p. 198. 



3. I KI«.0\<M.I \U S. 



Solier, Gay Hist d. Chile, Zool. iv, p. 464. 

 1. T. globulum Sol. loc. cit. Col. pi. 11, fig. la-f. 



farctus Lee. Smith. Misc. Coll. vi, p. 100 (Dec, 1S65). 



4 MII'TLS. 



Boildieu. Ann. Soc. ent. Fr. 1856, p. 662. 

 Duval, Gen. Col. Eur. iii, p. 210. 



1. N ventriculitis Lee. Smith. Misc. Coll. xi, p. 13 (1859). 



2. N. hololeucus Fald. Fauna Ent. Trans. Cauc. 214, 197, t. 7, fig. 6. 



Boield. Ann. Soc. ent. Fr. 1856, p. 664. — Duval, Gen. Col. Eur. iii, t. 52, 

 fig. 257.— Mulsant and Rey, Gibbicolles, p. 195. 



* Most of the European synonymy has been omitted as being irrelevant to 

 American students, and for a like reason only so much of European bibliography 

 is given in addition to original references, as will enable the student to locate 

 some good subsequent description of figure. 



