1890.] E. T. Atkinson^ Catalog^ie 0/ the Family Scydmseniclfi©. 177 



Genus COKYLOPHODES. 



Matthews, Ent. Mon. Mag., xxii, 1S35, p. 60. 

 unloolor. Matthews, Ann. Mag. N. H., (5s.) xis, 1837, p. 109. 

 Hab. Java, 



Genus CATOPTYX. 



Matthews, Ann. Mag. N. H., (Ss.) xix, 1887, p. 111. 



Bowringli, Matthews, I.e., p. 112. 

 Hab. Java, 



Genus APHANOCEPHALUS. 



Wollaston, Ent. Mon. Mag,, ix, 1873, p. 278. 



dlsslmllis, Matthews, Ann. Mag. N. H., (5s.) xix, 1887, p. 115. 

 Hab. China. 



auadrimaculatus, Matthews, I.e., p. 1 14. 



Hab. Penang. 

 vitreus, Matthews, Z.c, p. 114. 



Hab. China. 



? alutaceum (Sacium), Matthews, /. c. p. 106. 

 Hab. Maldonado. 



Family SCYDM.SNID^. 



Catalogue of the Insecta of the Oriental Reqion. Order Coleopfcera, No. 10, 

 Family ScYDMiEXiDiE— 2?^ E. T. AtkinsoN; B. A. 

 The Scydmoenidce are smull, shining insscts, usually ovate, of a brow^n 

 Colour, moi-e or less clothed with erect hairs. It is only of late years 

 that many have been recorded from the Oriental Kegiou Schaufuss, 

 in 1866, gave the bibliograpliy up to that date iu his Monograph. la 

 1882, Reitter sub-divided the family into five tribe.i : — Chevrolatini, 

 Cepheniiii, Scy^maeniai, Ewmicrini^ and Mastigini, and, since then, 

 lias suggested that the name Eamicrus, Lap., should be changed into 

 ScydmaenuSy whilst for the S, Godartii series to which that n^me had 

 bien applied, the name Cyrtoscydmus Motsch., should be iised. This 

 proposal has not received such acceptance as to warrant its adoption 

 here. The insects of this family are found near water, under stones in 

 ants' nests and under bark, and occasionally flying in the dusk. Leconte 

 notices that the ScydtnceniSce difier from the Psehiphidoi, to which they are 

 closely allied, by the long elytra and the conical distant posterior coxse. 

 The Indian Museum does not possess any specimens from the Oriental 

 Region. 



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