MORDELLIDAE. 



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1 Jfordella auct. ; those species having the authorities in parentheses were first referred to this 

 genus by mo : rid* Pr. Acad. Xat. Sc. Pbila. 1S^2, p. 48. The ridges of the hind tibiae and tarsi ar-:> 

 ?lightly'variable in some species, and more extensive collections may prove a few of the species to 

 be untenable. 



2 I have, in the Classification of Coleoptera, p. 276, adopted the n&meEmmenadia, given bv Laporte, 

 when he divided the Fabrician species into two genera. DuVal has clearly shown (Gen. Coi. Eur 

 III, 412,) that the name Phipiphorus should have been retained for the present genus, instead of the 

 one to which Laporte applied it. 



