C0LYDIIDJ5^ CUCUJID;E. 
Ins. 37 
Cerylon evanescem^ id. Verb. Ver. Briinn, xv. p. 20, Transsylvanian 
Alps ; C. spissicorne^ L. Fairmaire, Bull. Soc. Ent. Fr. (5) vii. p. Ixvi., 
Constantinople. 
Discoloma erichsoni {parmula, Er., M.S.), Reitter, Deutsche E. Z. 1877, 
p. 176, Cuba. 
CUCUJIDJE. 
A. Giouvello, Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. (5) vii. pp. 201-214, pi. v., contituies 
his descriptions of now or little known spocios. Plaiamm fJeyrollii^ Gr., 
lij^. 1, sdanmiy Gr., fig. 2, Tdephanm amenmmts, 01., fig. ,8, JjtvmophJmis 
curtus, Gr., fig. 7, reitteri, Gr., fig. 8, impressus, Gr., fig. 10, turcicus, Gr., 
fig. 11, are fully described and figured. 
Brontes planatus, p. .316, Lannophlceus testaceus, p. 317 (and pupa), 
figs. 43-45, Dendrophagus crenatus^ p. 318, Lathropus sepicola^ p. 320 (and 
pupa), figs. 46-53, Silvamis nnidentatus and Cathartus advena, p. 323, 
larvae described ; E. Perris, Ann. Soc. L. Lyon (n.s.), xxii. 
Platamus and Telephanus. E. Reitter, MT. Miinch. ent. Ver. i. p. 7, 
criticizes Schaufuss’s species [Zool. Rec. xiii. Ins. p. 49]. All the Platami 
of Schaufuss belong to Telephanus ; T. lateralis^ Sch., P = pilicornis, 
Reitt. T. pallidus, Rt., = P. ? pallidulus, Chevr. ; id. Deutsche E. Z. 
1877, p. 191. 
Schedarosus, Reitt., = Sitophagus, Muls. [a TenebrionidJ ; id. MT. 
Munch, ent. Ver. i. p. 8. 
New genej'a and species : — 
BessaphiluSy 0. O. Waterhouse, Ent. M. M. xiv. p. 26. Prostomis^ with 
the head of Cungns. B. cephalotes, p. 27, Tasmania. 
Plata, mops^ Roittor, Vorh. z.-b. Wien, xxvii. [for 1877, but published 
in 1878], p. 177. Allied to Parahrontes and Vlatamns^ but with short 
basal joint to antennae and simple 5-jointed tarsi. P. decora, tus., p. 177, 
and vittatus, p. 178, Colombia. 
Amydropa, id. 1. c. p. 179. Allied to ^cBraphilus and Ilypocoprus^ both 
of which are referred to the Cucujidee (the Cryptophagidee being special- 
ized by a distinctly long basal abdominal segment). No eyes, pygidium 
covered. A. anophthalma, p. 180, Chili. 
Passandra marginata, A. Grouvelle, Bull. Soc. Ent. Fr. (5) vii. p. clix , 
Australia. 
Hectarthrum raffrayi, id. R. Z. (.3) v. p. 296, pi. i. fig. 10, Abyssinia. 
Catogenus planus^ Reitter, Verb. z.-b. Wien, xxvii. p. 176, Mexico. 
Ancistria fahriciiy id. MT. Mimch. ent. Ver. i. p. 134, E. India. 
Prostomis atJcinsoni, Tasmania, cornutus, S. Australia, C. O. Water- 
house, 1. c. p. 26. 
Cucujus grouvellii, Reitter, MT. Miinch. ent. Ver. i. p. 24, Himalaya. 
Brontes atratus, id. ibid.j Malacca; B. (P g. n.) pleiwalis, D. Sharp, Ent. 
M. M. xiii. p. 270, Tairua, New Zealand. 
Platamus hurneralis^ Reitter, Verb. z.-b. Wien, xxvii. p. 176, Colombia; 
P. huqueti, Grouvelle, Bull. Soc. Ent. Fr. (5) vii. p. 1., Cayenne. 
Telephanus acuminatus, Chili, agilis., Mexico, puhescens, Nicaragua, id. 
