126 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



Anobium. — The old genus Anobium has been considerably 

 subdivided by recent authors, and not before it was neces- 

 sary. M. Motschulsky first indicated some of the groups, 

 and then MM. Mulsant and Thomson made various others, al- 

 most simultaneously, the priority remaining with M. Thomson. 

 Anobium is here restricted to the punctate-striate species, 

 which even then differ in a manner almost generic among 

 themselves. The species of Ernobium (Thomson wrote Er- 

 nobius) are very numerous, and more will occur in this country. 

 All have the same red-brown colour and facies, differing prin- 

 cipally in the proportions of the antennae. Our common one 

 has the fifth and seventh joints of the funiculus evidently 

 longer than the others, and is probably the consiraile, Muls., 

 but he seems to have applied the name of molle, L., to a 

 species not found in Sweden ! 



The Lasioderma testacea, Steph., an insect infesting to- 

 bacco, has been for some time referred to A. serricorne, Fabr., 

 and formed into a genus by Guerin, but it enters naturally 

 into Pseudochina, Duval. It appears to have received the 

 name testaceum from Duftschmidt in 1825. 



Coenocara. — This new genus was established on C.Bovistae, 

 in 1858, by Thomson. It has nine joints only in the antennae, 

 and has the eyes very irregularly shaped, being almost divided. 

 Mulsant re-created it in 1864, under the name of Euneatoma. 



C. Bovistae. — Mulsant has changed this name to C. sub- 

 alpina, Bon. 1812 ; why, he does not say. C. Bovistae, E. H., 

 dates from 1803, and seems well founded. 



Anitys. — This genus was formed by Thomson in 1863, 

 about a year previous to the Amblytoma of Mulsant. It is 

 distinguished by the verj short eight-jointed antennae, and 

 several peculiarities of structure. 



Cis. — Some of the divisions of this genus appear to differ 

 only in the number of joints of the antennae, which is hardly 

 a generic distinction, especially when, as here, the relative 

 form is preserved, one joint being dropped. Octotemnus, 

 however, further differs in its tibiae and other structural 

 points. 



C. rugulosus. — This species is intermediate between C. 

 Boleti and C. setiger. 



C. hispidus. — Thomson has, as 1 conceive rightly, united 

 this to C. raicans, Hb. ; they are often difficult to separate, 



