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along with various articles of commerce and merchandize. It has 
been established equally in the Madeiran, Canarian, and Cape Verde 
groups.” 
Attagenus, Eat. 
A. gloriosse, Fab. — A small, thick, mottled-brown Beetle, 
about one-sixth of an inch in length, common about the town and 
low land in its locality ; I have caught it crawling over my office 
table. Its introduction is doubtless due to the medium of commerce, 
and, Mr. Wollaston says, “ it has likewise established itself in the 
Island of Ascension, and it is reported also from India, Eastern 
Africa, and America.” 
Fam. Ilisterida. 
Tribalus, Erichs. 
T. 4-striatus, Woll. — A Beetle, one-eighth of an inch in 
length, of which Mr. Wollaston writes : “ The rather small size and 
entirely punctulated surface of this little Histerid, combined with its 
semicircular awcarinated forehead, and the fact of its elytra being 
totally free from a sutural stria (which is only traceable as a very 
short subscutellar arcuated impression), affiliate it with the small 
group of species which constitute the genus Tribalus ; but it seems 
to differ ( inter alia) from the whole of them in having four very dis- 
tinct dorsal punctured striae continued to about the middle of each 
elytron. Apart from other characters, its piceous-black hue, sub- 
rufescent limbs, and perpendicular pygidium will serve additionally 
to distinguish it.” 
Saprinus, Erichs. 
S. lautus, Woll.— A Beetle, about a quarter of an inch in 
length, of which Mr. Wollaston says '• “ The blue tinge (at any rate 
on the elytra) and by no means small size of this Saprinus are some- 
what suggestive at first sight of the widely spread S. semipunctalus ; 
but the fact of its epistome being divided from the forehead by a 
strong transverse line, in conjunction with its sutural stria being 
complete, and uniting in front with the fourth discal one, remove it 
into a totally different section of the genus — characterized by such 
■North- American species as javeti, patruelis, and dimidialipennis, 
which, however, appear to be of considerably smaller stature and less 
punctured on the surface.” 
