ANTHRIBIDAE 



By Karl Jordan, Ph.D., Zoological Museum, Tring 



(With 11 Text-figures.) 



Very few Anthribidae are known from the Pacific islands east of New Guinea. 

 Considering the abundance of species in New Zealand, New Guinea, and the 

 Malay Archipelago, we must expect the family to be well represented also on 

 the Solomons and the islands farther east. The present collection is a most 

 welcome contribution to our knowledge of the distribution of this family. 

 Though the collection includes representatives of only fourteen species, no 

 fewer than nine of these are new, two of them representing new genera. With 

 the exception of the first three in the list here published, all the species obtained 

 are small. As such Anthribids generally escape the notice of the collector who 

 does not specially search for minute insects, some of the new species may have 

 as wide a distribution as Araecerus vieillardi, which is common in Samoa and 

 New Caledonia and extends across New Guinea as far west as the Philippines. 

 One species, Scirtetinus pacijicus, has its nearest relatives in the far away 

 Seychelles, but new discoveries in the Malay Archipelago probably will link up 

 these widely separated countries. Two, Cerambyrhynchus schoenherri, and 

 Proscopus veitchi, are restricted to the Fiji-Samoan groups of islands and are 

 related to other South Pacific genera, while the affinities of all the other species 

 are with Indo-Malayan and particularly Philippinian forms. 



1. Cerambyrhynchus schoenherri Montrouz., 1855. 



The genus, which is nearest to Acanthopygus Montrouz. (1860), of New 

 Caledonia, and Rhinotropis Fairm. (1881), of Fiji, contains only one species, 

 originally described from material from Wallis Is., common in Fiji and Samoa. 

 Montrouzier named the species after Schoenherr, but erroneously spelt the name 

 of that famous Coleopterist with a double n ; we have adopted the corrected 

 spelling, as has been done by everybody. The description appeared in Ann. 



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