The taxa of Curculio L. found in China are segregated into seven groups based on simple morphological characteristics and a key to the first groups, Curculio robustus Roelofs, Curculio flavescens (Roelofs) and the remaining five groups of Curculio from China are presented. Descriptions are included of the following taxa: Curculio beverlyae, new species, Curculio vivianae, new species, Curculio cristinae, new species, and Curculio fausti, new species. Redescriptions are provided of Curculio deceptor panthaicus (Heller), Curculio flavescens (Roelofs) and Curculio robustus (Roelofs). Curculio funebris (Roelofs) = Curculio shaowuensis Voss, is synonymized (New Synonomy). Type specimens are deposited in the Institute of Zoology, Academia Sinica, Beijing, China.

Publication funded in part by the Patricia Vaurie bequest.

Three new species of Carinisphindus McHugh are described: Carinisphindus geminus, new species, the first species of Sphindidae reported from Puerto Rico; Carinisphindus skotios, new species, the first species of Sphindidae reported from Bahamas; and Carinisphindus purpuricephalus, new species, from Florida, the first North American representative of the genus. A revised key to the species of Carinisphindus is provided.

Fifty-four species of lady beetles were collected from three Chinese hemlock species, Tsuga dumosa (D. Don) Eichler, T. forrestii Downie and T. chinensis (Franchet) Pritzel, in Yunnan, Sichuan and Shaanxi provinces of China as part of a search for natural enemies of the hemlock woolly adelgid, Adelges tsugae Annand. Twenty new species are described: Clitostethus wenbishanus Yu, Scymnus (Neopullus) ningshanensis Yu and Yao, S. (N.) lijiangensis Yu, S. (N.) lycotropus Yu, S. (N.) nigromarginalis Yu, S. (Parapullus) tsugae Yu and Yao, S. (Scymnus) unciformis Yu, S. (S.) paracrinitus Yu, S. (Pullus) nigrobasalis Yu, S. (P.) baoxingensis Yu, S. (P.) gucheng Yu, S. (P.) geminus Yu and Montgomery, S. (P.) heyuanus Yu, S. (P.) robustibasalis Yu, S. (P.) jaculatorius Yu, Pseudoscymnus heijia Yu and Montgomery, P. ocellatus Yu, Shirozuella quadrimacularis Yu, and Sh. nibagou Yu. New synonyms placed here are: Oenopia yunlongensis Jing for O. deqenensis Jing, and O. pomiensis Jing, O. gonggarensis Jing and O. picithoroxa Jing for O. billieti (Mulsant). Harmonia quadripunctata (Pontoppidan) is a new record for China. Keys are provided to separate the known species of Clitostethus Wiese, Scymnus (Neopullus) Sasaji, and Scymnus (Scymnus) Kugelann in China. Nine species are recorded as predators of the hemlock woolly adelgid: Oenopia billieti (Mulsant), Adalia conglomerata (L.), Calvia championorum Booth, P. ocellatus, S. (N.) camptodromus Yu et Liu, S. (N.) sinuanodulus Yu et Yao, S. (N.) ningshanensis, S. (P.) yunshanpingensis Yu, and S. (P.) geminus.

The Longitarsus asperifoliarum species group is reviewed. Four new species are described: L. hissaricus Lopatin, new species (Tadzhikistan), L. marguzoricus Konstantinov, new species (Tadzhikistan), L. tishechkini Konstantinov, new species (Kazakhstan), and L. violentoides Konstantinov, new species (Armenia). Longitarsus afghanicus Lopatin is elevated to species status from its former status as L. asperifoliarum afghanicus. A key to the species and diagnostic characters for the group are provided. The setation of the apical and preapical abdominal tergites of females is recognized as a novel source of characters. Host plant and distributional data are included.

This paper records the species richness and composition of the dung-feeding fauna within the Danum Valley Conservation Area in Sabah, Malaysian Borneo. Comparisons are made with other rainforest sites in the Neotropics, Africa, Asia and Australia. To date, ninety-seven rainforest dung beetle species have been identified from Danum samples, making this the most species-rich rainforest site yet recorded. Reasons for the high species richness measure are examined, including the comprehensive nature of the trapping programme, utilizing both baited pitfall and flight intercept traps, the resource diversity and abundance at Danum, and the presence of a rich vertebrate fauna. Comments are made on the effectiveness of the trapping programme, and the implications of these results for the measurement of species richness and diversity of other arthropod groups in tropical rainforest.

We document the genus Micropsephodes in North America for the first time, based on M. lundgreni, new species from Florida, Louisiana, and Tennessee. We redescribe the genus based on examination of the type species, M. serraticornis Champion, and of undescribed species from the Dominican Republic and Ecuador. We provide a revised key to the genera of Anamorphinae of the United States to facilitate discrimination of Micropsephodes from previously recorded genera.

A group of two closely related species from the southern part of the Afrotropical Region is defined within the Afro-Indian genus Pseudoathyreus. It includes P. rhodesianus Peringuey from southern Zaire and Zimbabwe, and P. freyi Gomes Alves from some localities of southern Mozambique and Natal's coast. The species of this group are easily separated from all the other representatives of the genus by the following characters: (1) elytra with distinctly impressed striae; (2) small size, not exceeding 12 mm in length and 6 mm in width; (3) upper surface of eye clearly reduced; (4) distinctive colour patterns; (5) shape of male genital apparatus; (6) shape of clypeo-frontal carina and pronotal ornamentation; and (7) the geographic distribution extending throughout the Zambezian regional centre of endemism.

A new genus and species of Buprestidae, Panapulla strongyliformis Nelson, is described and figured from a female specimen collected in Panama.

In the genus Agra, the virgata group is a circum-Amazonian-Middle American lineage, consists of 10 highly characteristic species that have a composite range extending from the tropics of México to Bolivia, east as far as the Brazilian State of Goiás. The majority of species are found on the periphery of the Amazon Basin, the rest in Middle America. Members of the virgata group and some brentid beetles (e.g., Arrhenodes gnatho (Licht.)) have similar bright and contrasting colors and elytral pattern and are sometimes found together. No connection or interaction between these two is known at present that could explain this similarity. Agra mime, new species, is described and attributed to the virgata group. The type locality is: Ecuador: Napo Province, 20 km east of Puerto Napo, Alinahui, 450 m, 01°00′S, 077°25′W.

A revised key and checklist of the virgata group species are provided. A map of all known localities for the 10 species in the group is provided. A general discussion is included of the new species, as well as biogeographical notes for 6 additional species for which new locality records were found (Agra vate, A. nola, A. virgata, A. chocha, A. phainops, A. imaginis).

The ohausi group, a southeastern Brazil lineage, consists of 4 species. Here I report a new synonymy for A. ohausi Liebke (=Agra rugipunctata Straneo, n. syn.).

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Polycesta plana Nelson, new species, is described from two females found in the mountains of Baja California Sur. It is figured and compared to other species presented in the key by Barr (1949).

The North American distribution of Cicindela trifasciata F. (Coleoptera: Cicindelidae) continues to extend northward. This species is coastal in distribution and is generally found along the Atlantic Ocean, Gulf Coast, and major rivers. We report a new state record in north-central Kansas and discuss possible modes of dispersal.