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Anthribus Miiller, 1T76 (Zool. Dan. Prodr., p. 57). Only a single 

 species, glaber, is included. It does not belong to the Rhynchophora. 



Anthribus Geoffroy, 1785 (Fourcroy's Ent. Paris, pp. 136-139), 

 contains 12 species, of which pulicarius is fourth, and the only one 

 available for type in his original genus of 1762. 



Macroce'phalus Olivier, 1789 (Intr. Hist. Nat. Ins., vol. 4, pt. 3, 

 pp. 36, 158), includes only Gurculio aTbinus Linnaeus, which becomes 

 type, but the generic name is preoccupied by Macrocephalus Swederus; 

 1787. 



Anthribus Fabricius, 1790 (Nov. Ins. Gen., vol. 1). The genus is 

 frequentljT- dated from this description, based on four species, of 

 which Latreille (1810) designated latirostris Fabricius as type. 

 Inasmuch as the name Anthribus had been correctly used otherwise 

 by Geoffroy (1762), Forster (1771), DeGeer (1775), Miiller (1776), 

 it is impossible to accept this interpretation, which is the one which 

 led to the name Anthribidae as commonly used in America and 

 Europe. 



Platystomos (Hellwig) Schneider, 1791 (Nov. Ins. Gen., pp. 21- 

 23). Schneider discusses Fabricius's name Anthribus (not Geofi'royy 

 1762) with four species and refers it to Platystomos (Hellwig). 

 Following Bedel (1885) we may consider the first species, albinus 

 Linnaeus, as type, and the genus takes the place of the preoccupied 

 Macrocefhalus Olivier (1789) and becomes the type genus for family 

 and superfamily. 



Family PLATYSTOMIDAE Pierce (1916) 



This family is founded on Platystomos (Hellwig) (1791) and is 

 equivalent to the group Pleurocera of Lacordaire. 



TABLE OF SUBFAMILIES OF PLATYSTOMIDAE 



Scutellar carina of prothorax prebasal Platyrhininae, Everts (1903). 



Scutellar carina basal Platystominae, new subfamily. 



Subfamily Platyehustinae Everts (1903) 



This subfamily is founded on the genus Platyrhinus Clairville and 

 Schellenberg (1798). 



Following out the plan of classification, the groups of Lacordair© 

 may be considered as hereby raised to tribal value, but a rearrange- 

 ment of them will probably be necessary. 



In the arrangement here proposed for the North American tribes 

 an attempt is made to 'begin with the forms nearest approaching the 

 Bruchoidea (Bruchidae) and close with the forms having the great- 

 est modification of beak, thus approaching the Curculionoidea. 



