1 68 MODERN SYSTEM. 
Stirps 2. — Palpi very distinct: mandibles notched at their extremities. 
Genus 90. SCAPHIDIUM. Oliv., Payk., Fair., Lair . , Marsh. 
Antenna:, with an abnipt club composed of live somewhat hemispheric 
joints: body acuminated at each extremity: elytra truncated: palpi 
filiform : scutcllum distinct. 
Sp. 1. Sea. quadrimaculatum. Body black, shining: thorax somewhat 
coarctate on each side behind : elytra widely punctured, with two 
blood-red spots on each : tibia? striated. 
Inhabits Germany, France, and England, in fungi and rotten wood. 
Genus 91. SCAPHISOMA. Leach. Scapuidium. fair., Latr. 
Oliv. 
Antenna, with a club composed of five somewhat oval joints : body 
acuminated at each extremity: elytra truncated : palpi filiform : scu- 
tellum none. 
Obs. — T he hinder margin of the thorax at the middle is produced into 
an angle. 
Sp. 1. Sea. agaricinum. Body black, shining, very smooth; antenna 1 , 
apex of the elytra, and feet, pale brown. 
Inhabits the Boletus versicolor and otherykngl. 
Genus 92. CIIOLEVA. Latr., Spence, Leach. Catops. Fabr., 
Payk., Cyll. Ptomophagus. Illiger. Mordeela. Forster, 
Marsh. Helops. Pane. Cistela. Oliv., Fabr. Lupeiius. 
Frolich. Dermestes. Rossi. 
Antenna: straight, with a five-jointed club: maxillary palpi with the last 
joint subulate, conic : labial palpi with the last joint obtuse : thorax 
with the hinder angles obtuse. 
The species of this genus are numerous, and have afforded the 
subject of a learned and interesting monograph, by that excellent 
entomologist, W. Spence, esq. published by the Linncan Society in 
the eleventh volume of their Transactions. 
Sp. 1. Cho. oblonga. Narrow, oblong : thorax narrower behind, the 
hinder angles obtuse, the middle slightly foveolated : antenna some- 
what filiform. 
Cistela angustata. Fabr. Choleva oblonga. Latr., Spence. Catops 
elongatus. Payhdl, Gyll. Ptomophagus rufescens. I Mg. Mordella 
picea. Marsh. Lupems cisteloides. Frolich. 
Inhabits moss and under stones. 
Genus 98. CATOPS. Fair., Payk., Gyll., Panz., Leach. 
Antenna straight clavate, the club five-jointed : maxillary palpi with the 
last joint subulate, conic; labial with the last joint obtuse: thorax 
with the hinder angles acute : elytra more or less striated. 
Sp. 1. Cat. sericeus. Ovate, gibbous-convex, brown-pitch ; antennx 
and legs pitchy-rust-coloured. 
Inhabits moss. 
