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COLEOPrJllKA. 
the known European species to twelve, on account of their variability in 
size, colour, and structure of thorax. 
SmicripSf g. n., J. L. Le Conte, P. Am. Phil. Soc. xvii. p. 399. A 
miniature Ips, with quadrangular epistoma, deep frontal suture, and 
maxillae unusually large and flat at the base. S. palmicola^ sp. n., id. 
ibid., Florida and Georgia (ou Chumcerops palmetto). 
Monotoma diecki, sp. n., Reitter, 1. c. p. 6, Corsica. 
I Latheidiid.^. 
Merophysia has a tooth followed by an emargination on the postero- 
internal face of the front tibiae in the ^ ; and many species have also a 
little tubercle near the base of the metasternum and a depression on the 
fifth abdominal segment. No Cholovocera exhibits sexual characters. 
Belon, Bull. Soc. Ent. Fr. (5) viii. p. cxv. 
Stephoatethus, g. n., Le Conte, P. Am. Phil. Soc. xvii. p. 601. Pro- 
sternum extending only a short distance behind the coxae, and enclosed 
by the epimera, which coalesce on the median line as in the Rhyncho- 
pliora ; first coxae conical, prominent, and contiguous. For Lathridius 
liratus, Lee. 
Lobogestoria, g. n., Reitter, Deutsche E. Z. 1878, p. 31. Near Lange- 
landia Anommatus ; apparently also allied to Pycnomerus {Colydiidoi). 
L. gibbicollis, sp. n., p. 32, Cuba. 
Lathridius opaculus, maculatus^ and duplicatus, p. 600, Detroit, Illinois, 
&c., tenuicornis, California, and laticollis, Detroit, p. 601, spp. nn., Le 
Conte, 1. c. 
Corticaria Corsica, sp. n., H. Brisout, Bull. Soc. Ent. Fr. (5) viii. p. xevi., 
Corsica. 
MyCETOPHAGIDJ]. 
G. H. Horn, P. Am. Phil. Soc. xvii. p. 603 et seg., gives a synopsis of 
the N. American species. Mycetophagus obscurus, Lee., = melsheimeri, 
Lee., var. ; M.pini, Ziegl., ? = plwripunctatus, Lee., var. ; Marginus = 
Diplocoelus. 
Triphyllina, g. n., Reitter, Verh. Ver. Briinn, xvi. p. 167. Between 
Triphyllus and Litargus. For T. lederi, sp. n., ibid. pi. iv. fig. 32, Suram. 
Mycetophagus californicus, California, and tenuifasciatus, Northern 
States, p. 604, confusus, p. 605, Colorado, spp. nn., Horn, 1. c. 
Diploc(elus angusticollis, sp. n., id. 1. c. p. 605, Michigan. 
Dermestidje. 
Dermestes destroyed by tallow, of which it seems unable to withstand 
the smell ; tallow also keeps off moth and cabinet pests ; C. E. Heustis, 
Canad. Ent. x. p. 141. 
Dermestes bicolor and its larvae causing the death of young pigeons ; 
Taschenberg, Z. ges. Naturw. (3) iii. p. 393. 
Anthrenus acrophularice. Description and figures of this beetle, which 
