COLEOPTERA. 471 
E. vicimts=nea 2 )olit^nuSf yM.) E. syriacus==<jihhiis (Fab.); E. gihhus 
=qiMdrilineatus (Kraatz). 
Piestognathus (Liicas) is not sufficiently distinct' from Laptongchus to 
form a separate genus (see Kraatz, 1. c. p. 08). 
Erodms. Allard (Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 4P ser. tome iv. 
pp. 389-398) has published an analytical table of the species of 
the genus Erodms belonging to Solier’s second division, which 
includes all the species found in Europe and on the shores of 
the Mediterranean. He includes 52 species, four of which arc 
described by him as new. This is reproduced by Kraatz. Rev. 
der Tenehr. pp. 377-384. 
New species : — • 
Spyrathus, g. n., Kraatz, Re vis. Tenebr. p. 9 (see. p. 470). aSI indicus, sp. n., 
Kraatz, 1. c. p. 10, from the East Indies. 
Ulster omorphnsy g. n., Kraatz, ?. c. p. 11 (see p. 470). IT. plicatus (Buq. MS.), 
Kraatz, 1. c. p. 12, from Abyssinia. 
Arthrodes perraudicriy Wollaston, Col. Atl. App. p. 68, from the Canaries. 
Erodkis. Of this genus Allard describes four new species (Ann. Soc. Ent. 
Fr. 4® s^r. tom. iv.) : namely, E. zophoso'ides (Dej.), 1. c. p. 387, from Algeria 
and Spain ; E. rugosus, 1. c. p. 387, and E. gramdosusy 1. c. p. 388, from Al- 
geria; and E. duponchelii (Sol.), ibid., from Syria. 
Erodius opacusy Kraatz, 1. c. pp. 25 & 65, from Egypt ; E. lefrancii (Deyr.), 
Kraatz, 1. c. pp. 26 & 60, from Algeria; E. dimidiatipennisy Kraatz, 1. c. 
pp. 30 & 61, from Algeria and Morocco ; E. riigosus, Kraatz, 1. c. pp. 32 & 67, 
from Andalusia ; E. hrcvicollis, Kraatz, 1. c. pp. 60 (fe 64, from Algeria ; and 
E. elegansy Kraatz, 1. c. pp. 61 Sc 62, from Algeria. 
Akisides, 
Akis imrvicollisy Kraatz, 1. c. p. 261, from the Himalayas. 
Saurothropns, g. n., Kraatz, 1. c. p. 208. Allied to Cyphogenia ; legs slender; 
tarsi short, last joint with long hairs spread out like a fan. Typo Akis de- 
2 >ressa (Zoubkofl). 
Tentyriides, 
Kraatz discusses at great length (Rev. Tenebr. pp. 69-78) the 
classification of this subfamily. He indicates that of the six 
groups admitted by Lacordaire, the first three, namely the 
Gnathosiides , Tentyriides vraies, and HyperopideSy are formed of 
species belonging to the eastern hemisphere, with the exception of 
four genera, including ten species ; whilst the other three groups, 
the ThinobatideSy Tribolo car ides , and Evaniosomides are still 
more exclusively American, only the genus Scelosodis being an 
eastern form. These two series of groups are separated by La- 
cordaire in his table (Gen. Col. tom. v. p. 33) from characters 
presented by the intercoxal process of the base of the abdomen. 
Kraatz maintains that these characters are indefinite, and that 
Lacordaire, having perceived the existence of two great primary 
