Description of new species of Articcrus, 

 By Rev. R. L. King, B.A. 



[Eead 1st October, 1868.] 



The genus Articerus was first established by Dalman* upon a 

 species, named by him A. armatus, which had been discovered in 

 gum-copal. He was not able, however, to give any very detailed 

 description ; nor was any thing more known of the genus until 

 the Rev. Mr. Hopef descx'ibed and figured a species sent to 

 England from South Australia under the name A. Fortnumi. 

 The next additions made to the geiius were those contained in 

 Westwood's Monograph of Australian and other Pselaplddce in 

 the Transactions of the Entomological Society of London (Vol. 

 III., N.S., p. 271). He added A. curvicornis, angusticollis, dila- 

 ticornis, and setipes, all from Victoria, and A. hrazilievsis from 

 South America. Pascoe has since described a species from 

 Western Australia, under the name A. Bostockii, and has dis- 

 tinguished the species found so abundantly in South Australia, 

 near Gawler, by my friend Mrs. J. Kreusler, under the name A. 

 Odewahnii. It is evident, however, that both these last species 

 are remarkably close to, if not identical with the original species 

 described by Hope, as A.. Fortnumi. A. Duboulayi has been added 

 by Waterhouse from Western Australia — a species from Syria, 

 (J.. Syriaciis) has also been desci^bed ; and another from North 

 America, (A. Fachsii) has been added, vide Proceedings of Soc. 

 Phil., 186G. 



The species Braziliensis and Fuclisii appear to have been 

 removed from the genus Aniicerus,hv Brendel, and placed under the 

 new genus Fustiger; (^fustis gero). Not having had an opportunity 

 of consulting the diagnosis of the genus, I can only imagine that 

 the peculiar elongate antennae of the former species have been 

 regarded as of sufficient importance to justify the erection of a 



* Dalman, Om., Ins. innes i Copal, p. 23. 



t Ann. Nat. Hist. XI., p. 319; and Trans. Ent. Soc, London, IV., 

 p. 106, pi. viii. 



