ENGIDiE. CHOLEVILVE. 107 



Family ENGIDiE. Engidans. 



LIV. Genus IPS. Fab. 



(153) 1. * Ips De Jeanii. De Jeans Ips. 



I. (De Jeanii J nigro-picea, nitida, punctulatissima ; elytris subdilutioribus lineolis quatuor pallidis. 



De Jean's Ips, dark-piceous, glossy, thickly and minutely punctured : elytra rather more dilute, with four white linear spots. 



PLATE II, FIG. 4. 



Length of the body 1\ lines. 



Three specimens taken in Lat. 65°. 



DESCRIPTION. 



Body linear, depressed, thickly and minutely punctured, glossy, black or dark piceous. Head 

 with a punctiform impression in the vertex, and a larger impression on each side between the eyes : 

 prothorax quadrangular, rather narrowest behind : elytra piceous or rufo-piceous, with two oblong 

 white spots at the base, forming an interrupted line, and two oblique nearly parallel ones below the 

 middle : legs piceous. In the other sex the elytra are subacuminate. 



Variety B. With five white spots: viz. 1, 2, 2. 



Though the transition from the Brachelytra by Necrophorus to the Necrophaga, 

 especially the Silphklce, is so evident, 2 yet the road to be taken when we depart 

 from the latter tribe is not equally clear: the Nitidulidce indeed manifest a close 

 affinity to the Silphklce, but the Engidoe seem separated from both by a rather 

 wide interval, and from them various routes present themselves, some would go 

 next to the Catheretidce, others to the Cryptophagidce, and others to Choleva and 

 the Scaphidiadce. The former of these tribes seems to me nearer to the Nitidulidce 

 than the Engidcs, and may be regarded as opening a road from them towards the 

 Brachelytra; the Cryptophagidce appear much further removed, and are leading 

 towards the Dermestidce ; I shall therefore next proceed by the last tribes, whose 

 affinity to the preceding Necrophaga is generally admitted. 3 



2 See above, p. 95. 3 M ac L eay Annulos. Javan. i, 39. 



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