HISTERID.E, NIT1DUL1D;E. 
Ins. 43 
HiSTERIDiE. 
Marseul, S. a. I)E. Addition a I’enumeration des Hist^rides rapport^s 
de I’Archipel Malais, de la Nouvelle Guin^e, et de I’Australie boreale 
par O. Beccari et L. M. D’Albertis. Ann. Mus. Genov, xvi. pp. 
149-160. 
Includes several new species. 
Idister, g. n., id. 1. c. p. 154. Allied to Platysoma and Ilister ; type, I. 
morphon, sp. n., id. ibid., Sumatra. 
New species : — 
HoloUpta ferox, id. 1. c. p. 149, Sumatra. 
Platysoma pluviale and sumatrense, id. 1. c. pp. 151 & 152, Sumatra. 
Phelister discordans, id. 1. c. p. 155, Sumatra. 
Bister stercoriger and singalanus, Sumatra, pp. 156 & 157, helluonlolideSy 
Abyssinia, and zulu, Caffraria, pp. 617 & 618, id. 1. c. H. miniatus, 
Karsch, B. E. Z. xxv. p. 45, pi. ii. fig. 6, and in Rohlfs’s Kufra, p. 372, 
Oasis of Kufra. 
Epicrus biscissus, Marseul, 1. c. p. 158, New Guinea. 
Eretmotes palumboi, Ragusa, Nat. Sicil. i. p. 7, Sicily. 
Tribalus fastigiatus, Marseul, 1. c. p. 618, Abyssinia. 
Saprinus lepidulus and latipes, Broun, Man. N. Z. Ool. pp. 665 & 666, 
New Zealand. 
Bacanias lotus, Marseul, 1. c. p. 159, Java. 
A brcBUS brunneus, Broun, 1. c. p. 666, New Zealand, 
NiTIDULIDiB. 
Everts, E. Bijdrage tot de kennis der Nitidularien. Tijdschr. Ent. 
xxiv. pp. 9-60, pis. ii.-iv. 
Tables of subfamilies, genera, and species are given, with synonymy, 
and notes on the characters, larvae, &c., of most of the species. Five 
subfamilies are admitted, viz., Drachypterini, Carpophilini, Nitidulini, 
Strongylini, and Ipini. The plates represent structural details. 
Cercus pedicularius, Linn. Dimorphism, Everts, 1. c. p. 18. 
Meligethes morosus, Eversm., recorded as new to Britain ; Fowler, Ent. 
M. M. xviii. p. 112. 
Rhizopliagus. Characters of the genus discussed ; it may be divided 
into three sections, of which R. perforatus, Fabr., and parallelicollis, 
Gyll, R. bipustulatus, Fabr., and R. politus, Hellw., may be regarded as 
typical. Everts, 1. c. pp. xvii. & xviii. 
New genera and species : — 
Cyclomorpha, Broun, Man. N. Z. Col. p. 667. Affinities doubtful ; 
f-yP®? C'* politula, sp. n., 1. c. p. 668, New Zealand. 
Priateles, id. 1. c. p. 668. Placed next to last ; affinities not stated ; 
type, P. optandus, sp. n., 1. c. p. 669, New Zealand. 
Brachypeplus inauratus, p. 508, affinis, p. 509, bidens, p. 510, vestitus 
