

T Pt A N S A (J T ] N B 



OF TJIE 



ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY 



OF 



LONDON 



Foil THE Year 1020. 



1. A CoKhibiilion lo (he Classification of the Coleopterous 

 fainilj/ Eiidonivchidae. By Gilbert J. Arrow, F.Z.S. 



[Ilcad November 5th, 1919.] 



Plate I. 



The British Museum collection of this beautiful group of 

 fungus-feeding beetles is a peculiarly rich one, and contains 

 a very large proportion of all the known species, now about 

 750 in number. The Gorham collection, bought in 1891, 

 contained, in addition to Mr. Gorham's own types, many of 

 those of Gerstaecker and Guerin, whilst many more Gorham 

 types were afterwards acquired with the important Godman- 

 Salvin and Fry collections. In amalgamating these 

 valuable collections very numerous errors contained in 

 the recent catalogue of Cziki (for a large proportion of 

 which Mr. Gorham- is responsible) have come under my 

 notice, and in putting on record the notes thus accumulated 

 I have taken the opportunity of describing some of the 

 more interesting of the hitherto unlmown genera and 

 species contained in the National Collection, a large part 

 of these due to the successful collecting of Mr. Gilbert 

 Bryant and the late W. Doherty. To the former I am 

 indebted for the accompanying plate drawn by Miss 0. F. 

 Tassart. 



It is probable, from their generally conspicuous and fre- 

 quently remarkable coloration, that the group as a whole is 



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