CONTENTS 



Page. 



Introduction Ill 



History 112 



The principal characters of the family Lyctidse 114 



Synopsis of genera 115 



Revisional notes 115 



Synopsis of species of the genus Lyctus 116 



Systematic notes 121 



Genus Lyctus Fabricius 121 



Lyctus impressus Comolli 121 



Lyctus punctatus (Le Conte) 121 



Lyctus californicus Casey 121 



Lyctus parallelopipedus (Melsheimer) 121 



Lyctus curtulus Casey 122 



Lyctus polity^ n. sp 122 



Lyctus brunneus (Stephens) 123 



Lyctus pubescens Panzer 123 



Lyctus opaculus Le Conte 123 



Lyctus suturalis Faldermann 124 



Lyctus cavicoUis Le Conte 124 



Lyctus planicollis Le Conte 124 



Lyctus parvulus Casey 125 



Lyctus linearis (Goeze) 125 



Genus Lyctoxylon Reitter 126 



Lyctoxylon japonum Reitter 126 



Genus Minthea Pascoe 126 



Minthea rugicollis (Walker) 127 



Minthea stichothrix (Reitter) 127 



Bibliography 128 



Appendix. Notes on habits and distribution, with list of described species. . . 130 



Habits 130 



Distribution 132 



The Lyctidse represented in the collections examined by Kraus and Hop- 

 kins (classification according to Kraus) 136 



List of described species, with synonymy according to the literature and 



recent studies by the authoi-s 137 



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