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XIX. Notes on Endomycldd Coleoptera and descriptions of 

 new species in the British Bluseum. By Gilbert J. 

 Arrow, F.E.S., F.Z.S. 



[Read October 18th, 1922.] 



Having had tlie opportunity of examining the collection 

 of Endomychidae, formed by H. S. Gorham between the 

 years 1888 and 1901, and recently acquired by M. Rene 

 Oberthiir, I have made a few synonymical notes, which are 

 here published. The first collection, containing the species 

 described by Gorham previous to 1888, and including types 

 of Guerin and many described by Gerstaecker from the 

 Deyrolle collection, has long been incorporated in the 

 British Museum. 



In the deplorable " scraps " so fittingly called b)^ him 

 Melanges Exotico-Entomologiques, M. Pic has lately 

 bestowed names in his characteristic manner upon some 

 of the most familiar representatives of this family. I have 

 therefore indicated here the species to which these names 

 are to be relegated. It seems to me very desirable that 

 some representative body should give formal expression 

 to the censure universally felt to be merited by this 

 Avriter, who hinders the advancement and degrades the 

 standards of Entomology by the wholesale introduction 

 of names accompanied only by remarks indicating the 

 most impudently superficial study. 



Finally descriptions of various new s})ecics supplement- 

 ing those described by me in Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 

 1920 (p. 1) are included here. When engaged upon that 

 paper I deferred dealing with the genus Saula, the minute 

 species composing it bearing so close a general resemblance 

 that satisfactory conclusions could not be arrived at with- 

 out a study of considerable series. I have since succeeded 

 in bringing together more than one hundred and fifty 

 specimens of the genus, a large part of them collected 

 by Prof. C. F. Baker, and this fine series has enabled the 

 distribution and characteristics of a previously little-known 

 genus to be elucidated and the number of its species is 

 now more than trebled. 



Amphisterniis papulatiis Gorh. is A. bellicosus Gerst. 



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