the Coleopterous Family Erotylidce. (21) 397 

 Dacne californica.* 



Etigis cali/ornica, Horn, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc. 1870, 97. 



Dacne , Crotch, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc. 1872, 352. 



California. 



Dacne japonica.* 



Dacne japonica, Crotch, Ent. Mo. Mag. ix. 188. 

 Japan. 



Dacne picta. 



Dacne picta, Crotch, Ent. Mo. Mag. ix. 188. 

 Japan. 



Dacne SBquinoctialis.* 



Engis cequinoctialis, Thorns. Arch. Ent. ii. 235. 



Gaboon. 



I have great hesitation in referring this insect to the present 

 genus; I have a species from the Cape [Engis capensis, Dj.), 

 which is certainly not a true Dacne. 



Dacne rufifrons. 



Tritoma rufifrons, Fab. Syst. Ent. G8 (1775). 

 Engis rufifrons, Bedel, Abeille, v. 10. 

 England, Sweden, France, Germany, Austria, 



Dacne bipustulata. 



Dermestes hipustulatus, Thunh. Nov. Ins. Spec. I. ^.i. 4(1781). 



scanicus. Fab. Syst. Ent. 58 (1775). 



Ips humeralis. Fab. Mant. 45 (1787). 

 Engis humeralis. Bedel, Abeille, v. 10. 



Sweden, England, France, Gemiany, Austria, Italy, Batoum, 

 Caucasus. 



Dacne capensis, sp. n. 



Subovata, postice acuminata, nigra, nitida, antennis (clava 

 picea) pedibusque obscure rufis ; capite parce punctato, clypeo 

 obscure rufo ; thorace fortius punctato, subtransverso, lateribus 

 marginatis, rectis, basi immarginato, iitriuque oblique truncato ; 

 elytris punctato-striatis, interstitiis parcissime punctulatis ; abdo- 

 mine subtus tenue pubescente, fortiter punctato, prfesertim lateri- 

 bus, linea coxali distincta fere marginem attingeute ; metasterno 

 obsoletissime, lateribus episternisque profunde grosse punctatis, 

 linea coxali distincta ; mesosterno transverso, prosterno triangu- 

 lariter elevato, lateribus marginatis, postice infra coxas truncato, 



