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DENDROPHILUS SHEPPARDI. 
Order Coleoptera. Fam. Histeridae Leach . Byrfhii hat. 
Type of the Genus Hister punctatus Ent. Heft. 
Dendrophilus Leach , Sam . — Hister Linn., Fab., Lat., 8$c. 8$c. 
Antennae inserted on each side the head near the base of the 
mandibles, slightly geniculated, 1 1 -jointed, basal joint long ro- 
bust clavate, 2nd shorter clavate, 4 following submoniliform, 
7th and 8th larger more robust, the remainder forming an oval 
pubescent nearly solid club of 3 joints (fig. 6). 
Labrum transverse rounded, slightly hairy at the margin (1). 
Mandibles small, bent, acute, dilated at the base, ciliated on the 
internal edge, one with a notch near the apex (2). 
Maxillae with the internal lobe small, the external one ciliated. 
Palpi longer than the maxillae, 4-jointed, basal joint minute, 2 
following robust, 4th elongate-ovate (3). 
Lip bilobed. Labial palpi composed of 2 joints of nearly equal 
length, 1st clavate, 2nd elongate-ovate (4). 
Head small , sunk in the thorax. Thorax transverse , anterior margin 
beneath produced in the centre (9'*). Body depressed but convex. 
Elytra not quite covering the abdomen. Wings twice as long as the 
elytra. Tibiae compressed, with a groove on the outer side to receive 
the tarsi, anterior dilated, slightly serrated on the external edge, 
with 2 spurs at the apex ; posterior less dilated , with a few short 
teeth on the external edge. Tarsi contractile, 5 -jointed, basal and 
terminal joints the longest (5, a fore leg). 
Sheppardi Kirby s MSS. 
Smooth, not very shining, dull castaneous. Head black, minutely 
punctured ; club of antennae ferruginous. Thorax vermiculated 
and punctured under a high power. Scutellum none. Elytra 
minutely and sparingly punctured (appearing shagreened under 
a powerful lens), each having one straight and five curved, very 
shallow striae, extending the whole length. 
In the Cabinet of Mr. Kirby. 
Dendrophilus was a genus established by Dr. Leach in the 
3rd volume of the Zoological Miscellany, where by a typo- 
graphical error which Mr. Stephens pointed out to me, 3 of 
