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this most difficult family must depend in a great measure on our better acquaintance with ‘heir 
larvae. Perhaps it would be better for the present to consider the typical insects of the groupe as 
unascertained, and the propriety therefore of the family name Engide as at least doubtful. It is 
observable, however, that all these insects were Dermestes with Linnzeus and Fabricius ; and, as 
in another part of the work I shall have to return to this subject, in the mean time I shall merely 
remark, that from the Helopide this groupe may easily be distinguished by their clavate antenne. 
Genus DACNE Lat. Ewers Payk. 
M. Latreille, in his Précis de Genres founded the genus Dacne on the species of insect 
called by Herbst, Ips humeralis ; and soon after Paykull, in the Fauna Suecica, gave the generic 
name of Engis, with appropriate characters, to the same insect. Fabricius, in the Systema 
Eleutheratorum, adopted this genus with the name given to it by Paykull, and placed in it an 
American insect, the Erotylus hifasciatus of Olivier (Enc. Meth. Hist. Nat.), which insect is, 
however, sufficiently distinct, by its maxillary palpi having their last joint hammer-shaped, 
whereas the European insect (Jps humeralis of Herbst) has the same joint only obtusely subu- 
late. I leave, therefore, the original name of Dacne with the last-mentioned insect, and give 
the name of Engis to those exotic insects which coincide with Engis fasciata of Fabricius, in 
the above description of their palpi, ana which differ from true Erotyli, in having the 
penultimate joint of their tarsi visible, although very small. 
18. SexnoraTs. D. antice angustior, nigro-nitida, thoracis angulis anticis, elytrorumque fasciis duabus 
transversis cruentis. 
Engis secnotata, Wiedemann Zool. Mag. 2. 1. 131. 
Long corp. ? 
Caput vertice concavo antennarumque clava tomentosa murina. Thorax antice angustior, ad angulos 
subproductus lunulaque cruenta insignis, posticé vix fossulatus. Scutellum nigrum. lytra striis 
punctorum obsoletis, et maculis duabus_transversis undatis cruentis, antica dentata humerum versus. 
Corpus atronitidum. Pedes nigri tibiis ad apicem tomento brunneis. 
79. Quaprimacuta. D. nigronitida pubescens punctulata, elytris maculis transversis: humerali mediaque rufis, 
humero scutelloque nigris. 
Engis quadrimacula, Wiedemann Zool. Mag. 2. 1. 132. 
Long. corp. $ 
Antenné nigre. Thorax niger, antice subangustior. Elytra striis punctorum obsoletis, ad scutellum 
nigra, macula humerali utrinque excisa, media lunulata. Corpus atronitidum. Pedes nigri tibiis ad 
apicem tomento brunneis. 
Genus ENGIS. Nobis. 
The genus Oxyporusamong the Brachelytra has its labial palpisomewhat like those of this genus. 
80. Verrrcauis. E. atra, verticis maculis duabus, thoracis annulo irregulari, elytrorum Jasciis duabus apice- 
que rubris. 
Long. corp. 13% 
Caput nigrum, vertice ad oculos bimaculato, antennarumque clava tomentosa. Thorax niger, marginatus, 
fossulis ad marginem posteriorem tribus minutis, annulo medio rubro ad angulos protento et lineam 
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