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(Col. de France^ Colligeres) . They give the following table of 
the tribes into whieh they divide the group of Heteromera^ excl. 
Melasomata (/. c. p. 19) : — 
I. Base of prothorax as wide as the elytra. 
A. Head immersed in the prothorax, narrow ; maxiUaiy palpi generally 
long Barhvpalpes. 
B. Head not immersed, applied to the prothorax, without a neck, vertical 
or inclined Longiphdes. 
II. Base of prothorax generally sensibly narrower than the shoulders, or 
head rostrated. 
A. Head applied to prothorax, or separated from it by a neck. 
1. Head vertical or inclined ; antennss not pectinated or serrated. 
* Claws simple Collighres. 
t Claws divided Vesicants, 
2. Head not much deflexed j antennae pectinated or strongly serrated ; 
elytra wide Latipennes, 
B. Head immersed in prothorax. 
1. Prothorax sensibly narrower than the elytra. 
* Elytra widest behind ; prothorax nearly cylindrical. 
Cylindricolles. 
t Elytra widest about the middle j prothorax usually narrower at 
its base. 
a. Antennae slender, filiform; penultimate joint of tarsi subbi- 
lobate Angiisticolles. 
h. Antennae stout, or enlarged towards apex; penultimate joint 
of tarsi entire Simplicitarses, 
% Prothorax as wide as elytra ; head rostrated Rostrifbres. 
The ColUghres are divided by the authors into the groups Xylophilides and 
Anthicides, intermediate between which are the Pedilides (1. c. p. 46). The 
true Xylophilides are represented in France only by the genus XylophiluSy 
divided by the authors (l.c. p. 22) into 4 subgenera : — Olotelus {pn'uinosuSy 
Kies., neglectus, Du Val, and two new species) ; Anidorus {nigrinus, Germ., 
sanguinolentus, Kies., and rujicollis, Rossi) ; Euglenes, Westw. {pygmeeus, 
De G., and/enmcMS, Mann.); and Xijlophilus— Aderus^ Westw. {populneusj 
Panz.). Between the second and third of these subgenera Mulsant & Rey 
place Pliytohamus (Sahib.) including only P. amabilis (Sahib.). 
Of the Pedilides, Mulsant & Rey briefly characterize the genera Pedilus 
(Fisch.) and Steropes (Stev.), referring to the former P. fuscus (Fisch.) and 
rujipes and ruhricollis (Motsch.), to the latter S. caspius 
Mulsant & Rey figure : — Xylophilus pygmeeus <S $ , c. pi. 1. figs. 1, 2 ; cf 
$ antennae and elytra of X. nigrinus, figs. 3-6 ; base of c? antenna of X, 
sanguinolentus, fig. 7 ; and the antenna of X. populneus, fig. 8. 
Xylophilus neglectus (Du Val) is recorded as British by Crotch (Cat. Brit. 
Col.). See Rye,* Ent. Ann. 1867, p. 84. 
Leconte (New Col. N. Amcr. i. p. 144) proposes the division of the genus 
Scraptia (Lat.) into three, as follows : — 
I. Last joint of max. palpi triangular. 
A. Penultimate joint of all tarsi lobed. Scraptia. 
B. Penult, joint of hind tarsi not lobed Allopoda (Lee.). 
tl. Last joint of max. palpi elongate, cultriform Canifa (Lee.). 
