THE GENUS PISSODES. 5 



coarctate at apex, rugosely punctate, obsoletely carinate, piceous, 

 with two (lisklike spots of white scales. wScutelhim with white 

 scales. Elytra slightly broader than thorax and half again longer 

 than wide. Sides straight, obtusely roiindetl at apex, impressed at 

 either side; convex, striato-punctate, the alternate interspaces 

 broader, more elevated, piceous, lightly clothed with brown scales, 

 each with two obsolescent fulvous bands, posteriorly close to the 

 suture terminated with a white spot. Body piceous below, with gray 

 scales. Feet piceous, the femora shortened, annulated with gray 

 before the apex. 



Following are the names of the other species described anfl the 

 genera and species to which they were later referred. 



No. 457. Pissodes macellus = Hylohius pales Boh., Sch. Cure, II, 340. 



No. 458. Pissodes cJioicus = Ililipus cJi.oicus (Germar). 



No. 459. Pissodes onychinus = Hilipus onycMnus (Germar). 



No. 460. Pissodes Jlammiger = Hilipus flammiger (Germar). 



No. 461. Pissodes picturatus = Hilipus picturatus (Germar). 



No. 462. Pissodes poli/mitus = Hilipus polymitus (Germar). 



No. 463. Pissodes erythrorhynchus = Hilipus erythrorhynchus (Ger- 

 mar). 



No. 464. Pissodes prodigialis = Hilipus prodigialis (Germar). 



No. 465. Pissodes trachypterus = Hilipus trachypterus (Germar). 



Schoenherr (1826, }){). 225-226) was the first to subdivide the genus 

 and to designate Pissodes pini (L.) as the type and P. picese (111.), 

 P. harcijnise (Herbst), P. notatus (Fab.), P. piniphilus (Herbst), 

 and P. nemorensis Germ, as cotypes. Therefore, according to the 

 rules of nomenclature (Stiles, 1905, pp. 26-27), Pissodes pini (L.) 

 must stand as the type of the genus. 



It appears that up to 1909 the genus was represented by 21 authen- 

 tically recognized species, 7 from North America, 9 from Europe, 3 

 from eastern Siberia, and 2 from Japan, as follows: 



