the Coleopterous Family ErotylidcB. (21) 897 

 Dacne californica* 



Engis californica, Horn, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc. 1870, 97. 



Dacne , Crotch, Tram. A7ner. Ent. Soc. 1872, 352. 



Califoi-nia. 



Dacne japonica.* 



Dacne japonica, Crotch, Ent. Mo. Mag. ix. 188. 

 Japan. 



Dacne picta. 



Dacne picta, Crotch, Ent. Mo. Mag. ix. 188. 

 Japan. 



Dacne sequinoctialis.* 



Engis cequinoctialis. Thorns. Arch. Ent. ii. 235. 



Gaboon. 



I have great hesitation in referring this insect to the present 

 genus; I have a species from the Cape {Engis capensis, Dj-), 

 which is certainly not a true Dacne. 



Dacne rufifrons. 



Tritoma rufifrons. Fab. Syst. Ent. 68 (1775). 

 Engis rufifrons, Bedel, Aheille, v. 10. 

 England, Sweden, France, Germany, Austria. 



Dacne bipustulata. 



Dermestes hipustulatus, Thunh. Nov. Ins. Spec. i. 6. f, 4(1781). 



scanicus, Fah. Syst. Ent. 58 (1775). 



Ips humeralis, Fah. Mant. 45 (1787). 

 Engis humeralis, Bedel, Abeille, v. 10. 



Sweden, England, Erance, Germany, Austria, Italy, Batoum, 

 Caucasus. 



Dacne capensis, sp. n. 



Subovata, postice acuminata, nigra, nitida, antennis (clava 

 picea) pedibusque obscure rufis ; capite parce punctate, clypeo 

 obscure rufo ; thorace fortius punctato, subtransverso, lateribus 

 marginatis, rectis, basi immarginato, utrinque oblique truncatn ; 

 elytris punctato-striatis, interstitiis parcissime punctulatis ; abdo- 

 raine subtus tenue pubescente, fortiter punctato, pmesertim lateri- 

 bus, linea coxali distincta fere marginem attingente ; metasterno 

 obsoletissime, lateribus episternisque profunde grosse puuctatis, 

 linea coxali distincta ; mesosterno transverso, prosterno triangu- 

 lariter elevato, lateribus marginatis, postice infra coxas truncate, 



