138 Mr. G. Lewis on 



of the second genus, also single, corresponds somewhat 

 curiously with several Australian forms. 



It may be well to give the origins of two names lately 

 used for new genera. The variolose surface-sculpture of 

 Sitalia severini, Lew., figured in 1900, suggested the name 

 for this Indian genus. The Hindu has made the disease 

 variola a member of his Pantheon, and under the name of 

 the goddess Sitalia pays it worship and honour. The name 

 of the genus Santalus was formed from Santal, a negro-like 

 aboriginal tribe of India; the species are all Oriental and the 

 area of their distribution limited, so far as is now known, to 

 India, Burma, and the Eastern Archipelago. 



There are two remarkable instances in this family of the 

 geographical distribution of peculiar species which are 

 worthy of notice. In the genus llololepta there are ten 

 species which have a conspicuous curved or arched sulcus in 

 the propygidium, and these species have a range from Japan 

 through India to South Africa. And in the genus Ana- 

 glymma there are nine species whose distribution extends 

 from the Malay Archipelago and India to Cape Colony, and 

 there is eveiy likelihood that some species will ultimately be 

 found in the far East. All the species of both genera are 

 subcortical in their habits and in Central Africa are found on 

 both coasts. 



In the Catalogue published in 1905 I did not give the 

 names of the Histerida? known and described from the tertiary 

 sedimentary strata as fossils ; but at the end of this paper I 

 give a list of them, compiled by Professor T. D. A. Cockerel], 

 of the University of Colorado. I believe the list is complete 

 to date, and I have been courteously permitted to publish it. 

 Heer's paper was published in 186-1, before the inauguration 

 of the 'Zoological Record'; but one name in the list is dated 

 18S8. Judging from the figures given of the fossilized 

 species, there appears to be in several of them a thoracic stria 

 which is continued along the base; in the existing species, 

 over 2300, this characteristic is only observed in three. 



List of Species. 



Hololepta enodipvga. 

 Teretrius africus. 



erythrseus. 



Platvsonia vagans, Lew. 



Macrolister debellatus. 

 Ilister maroccanus, Sch. 



amplicol/is, Er., 1840,= 



thoracicus, Paijk., 1811. 



Mendelius, gen. nov. vadatus, Letc. 



lineipennis. areatus. 



Omalodes obliquistrius. lineisternus. 



simplex. sulcimargo. 



chapadae. honestus. 



