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longer than the other two pairs, and each with an articulated spur (Plate XVI. fig. 14) 

 below the tarsus, as long as the tour basal joints of the tarsus. The other tibiae are 

 devoid of such spurs. The fact that the tarsi are 5-jointed, and the form of the 

 antennae, make the systematic position of this genus quite doubtful. It is here retained 

 merely provisionally in Mycetophagidae. 



(i) Propaliicjis oculatiis Sharp. 



Propalticus ociilatus Sharp, op. cit. p. 88. 



Plate XVI. fig. 12. 



We have received seven specimens of this remarkable little beetle. The general 

 colour above is a very dark ferruginous. The punctures are close but not very marked. 

 The e.xpression in the diagnosis " fere nudus " seems hardly correct ; for the body is 

 covered with a very short decumbent pubescence, inconspicuous except over certain 

 patches near the base ot the thora.x and on the elytra, where the hairs are very pale. 

 The legs are testaceous. 



Hab. Oahu, Maui, Hawaii. — Oahu, Maui ; also stated (Sharp, op. cit. p. 89) to 

 have occurred in Kauai ; in dead wood in all kinds of localities ; it is an extremely agile 

 jumper (Blackburn). — Oahu: Kaala mts. ; mts. near Honolulu (Perkins).- — Hawaii, 

 Kona, 2500 ft. (Perkins). 



Fam. MYCETAEIDAE. 

 MvcETAEA Stephens. 

 Mycetaea Stephens, 111. Brit. iii. 1830, p. 80. 



(i) Mycetaea hirta, Marsh. 



Silpha hirta Marsham, Ent. Brit. i. p. 124. 



Mycetaea hirta Sharp, Tr. Dublin Soc. iii. 1885, p. 235. 



Mr Perkins has not obtained this species. 



Hab. Oahu. A single specimen taken in the Pauoa valley near Honolulu 

 (Blackburn). Introduced. 



Fam. LATHRIDIIDAE'. 



Lathridius Herbst. 

 Lathridius Herbst, Kaf. v. 1793, p. 3. 



(i) Lathridius nodifer Westwood. 



Lath'idizis ?Wflf//?r Westwood, Int. Class. Ins. i. p. 155 and PI. 13, fig. 23 ; Sharp, 

 Tr. Dublin Soc. iii. 1885, p. 234. 



' By Hugh Scott. 



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