of the CUiVicorn Familien. ll'l 



I lab. N. Iiulin. 



The Hritisli Museum contains several specimens of this 

 new species froni India, one of them collected previous to 

 1848 by Capt. Boys. Two others are laliellotl Penan^, 

 whicli is perhaps ineorrect. The insect is very liko iV. nigri- 

 CorniSy liar,, but iliflfers by the toothed hind tibiaj and 

 rounded apical angles of the elytra in the nuilo and the 

 more transverse prothorax, with straight hind margin, in 

 both sexoH. 



Necrojthorui late/ascialus, Lewis, described from Japan, is 

 the European N. investigator, Zetf., which occurs also in 

 Manchuria, Saghalien, Pekin, &c. 



Several species oi Necrophorus were det^cribcd by J.Gistel 

 in his ' Naturgeschichte des Thierreichs,' published in 18-48 

 for the use ot" schools (!) and not unnaturally overlooked by 

 systeniatists. 'J'he descripticn?* are fragmentary and the 

 synonymy oflers considerable difficulty. The genus Oxelytrum 

 in that work, with three supposed new species, rcters to 

 Silpha cayennennis, 8turm, and the allied S. analis, CHievr., 

 both of earlier date, but the precise attribution of the names 

 is uncertain. 



Nitidulidae. 



Lordites glabricoJa, Cand., 1861, is (Xitidula) picta, Macl. 

 Annulosa Javanica, 1825, p. 40, 



The genus Mcgnuchenia of Macleay, described in the 

 8an.e work, has been overlooked, ^J. setipenui.Sj Macl., the 

 type of which, together with the others described in the work, 

 is in the Hritish Museum, is hclurna elongata, Erichs,, Germ, 

 Zeits, 184H, p, 288. Both generic and specific names are 

 therefore superseded by Macleay's. 



Axyra setosa, Murr,, very cursorily characterised in the 

 Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 1867, xix. p. 170, has not been 

 included in the Munich Catalogue, and Nitidulapicea, Bohem.. 

 referred to the same genus by Murray, has not been catalo^uea 

 as such. .^•l. setosa J Murr., differs from A. elongata, ^lurr., 

 and A. picea, Boheu),, by the closer and finer sculpture of its 

 elytra, its lUgose prothorax, and less flattened appearance, due 

 to the absence of the wide lateral margins of thorax and 

 elytra present in all the other species. A margin is formed 

 at the posterior part of the elytra, however, by the pinching 

 in f>f their central part. The body is 7*5 mm, long in the 

 unique type. 



