VIAGGIO DI LEONAEDO FEA 



IN BIRMANIA E REGIONI VICINE 



XLII. 



HISTERIDAE (Part 2). 

 BY GEORGE LEWIS F. L. S. 



Since the publication of the memoir on the Histeridae of 

 Burma in the Ann. Mus. Civ. Genova. Ser. 2. Vol. VI. 1888. 

 pp. 631-645 Signor Leonardo Fea has returned to Europe and 

 has brought with him another considerable collection v^hich has 

 been placed in my hands for study that I might determine the 

 names of the species. The collection has been gathered partly 

 in Pegu, but chiefly in the Province of Karen and it has been 

 made at various altitudes and a careful record of the heights 

 has been kept for every specimen. The elevations thus registered 

 are given in the body of this paper as I feel sure that all such 

 statistics will become of increasing importance as the insects of 

 distant countries are more and more studied and the knowledge 

 derived from such pursuits systematized. It is not a rule without 

 many exceptions, but it is clearly manifest to those who look 

 into these matters, that mountain forms of Coleoptera are much 

 more local than species which inhabit the plains. In the present 

 collection Hister lutariuSj chinensis and punctulatus represent the 

 widely spread species and it is probable that Hister vestitus, 

 sinuaticollis and stenocephalus represent those which are local 

 and perhaps even endemic. The first three I have captured 

 repeatedly and they are known to be what are commonly cal- 

 led stercoraceous insects, but it seems to me certain that the 



