new S/>ee?Vs 0/ Histerida?, 381 



large collections in Europe coutaiiruii^^ material wliicli is not 

 yet worked out, and these must contain a very considerable 

 number ot" new species, while beyond this nearly every 

 collector who visits places outside the European- limit dis- 

 covers species to be added to our lists. Even those wliose 

 rambles merely extend to the Algerian border of the Medi- 

 terranean bring home novelties. 



The family will ])robably ultimately rank with the Nitidu- 

 lidai and Colydiidffi, families in which the more curious species 

 require of a collector a careful study of various insect-habits, 

 as most of them are entomophagous or commensal ; and these 

 habits lead to many-sided instincts which go hand in hand 

 with an intricacy of structure and a refinement of colour whicii 

 makes the acquisition of a new species, possessed of such 

 characteristics, a most attractive element in the popular side 

 of entomology. 



List of Sjjecies arranged generically. 



Apobletes Duvivieri. Ereluiotus carinatus. 



Semperi. Triballus corylnphioides. 



platj'somoides. Saprimis flavipennis, Perin'juei/. 



corticalis. Saprinodes, n. gen. 



seminifii>!. falciter. 



Platysoma solitarium. Teretriosoma viridicatum. 



constrictiiiu. ciugulum. 



Liopygus, n. gen. iiigresceus. 



Pa^hycraerus violaceipennis. Groiivellei. 



Ulster reciirvus, Mars. plumicornis. 



Sikorfe. — ■ — pilicorois. 



Epieriis dux. Trypanteus ro.stratus. 



imifans. plagiatiis. 



Baconia festiva. t'asciatus. 



Carcinops didci?'. Trypeticiis Groiivellei, Mara. 



Paratropus manicatus. — — obeliscus. 



castaneiis. rainiituliis. 



etfertus. Onthophilus piiuctisternuiu. 



da;dalii3. bipartitiis, Lew. 



anthraciuus. Colouides parviihis. 



Apuhletes Duvivieri^ sp. n. 



Oblongo-ovatus, complanatus, nigro-piceus, nitidiis ; froute leviter 

 impressa, stria recta utrinque interrupta ; pronoto stria interna 

 atitice interrupta, interstitiis angustatis ; elytris stria 1" Integra, 

 2* basi abbreviata, 3* brevissima. 



L. 5| mill. 



Oblong-oval, parallel at the sides, flat ; head smooth, lightly 

 impressed anteriorly, frontal stria straight, not finely impressed, 

 interrupted at each side, bent over the eyes ; thorax irapuuc- 



