NEW BEETLE RECORDS FROM THE GALAPAGOS-ISLANDS, ECUADOR (COLEOPTERA)

Records are given for beetles new to the fauna of the Galapagos Island s. Reported for the first time are the families Haliplidae (Haliplus s p.), Eucnemidae (Fornax sp.), Jacobsoniidae (Derolathrus sp.), Biphyll idae (Anobocoelus sp.), Bothrideridae (Sosylus sp.), Melandryidae (= S craptiidae) (Naucles spp.) and Anthicidae (Anthicus pallidus, Omonadus floralis, Sapintus sp.). First records are given for genera in Hydrop hilidae (Dactylosternum abdominale and D. sp., Omicrus sp., Aculomicru s sp., Cycrillum strigicolle), Lyctidae (Minthea rugicollis, Trogloxyl on parallelopipedum), Bostrichidae (Dinoderus minutus), Cleridae (Tars ostenus univittatus), Nitidulidae (Carpophilus dimidiatus, Urophorus h umeralis, Brachypeplus sp.), Cucujidae (Silvanus sp., Monanus coccinul us), Languriidae (Cryptophilus sp.), Corylophidae (Molamba sp., ? Cory lophodes sp.), Coccinellidae (Pentilia sp.), Endomychidae (Coluocera m aderae), Colydiidae (Synchita sp.), Mycetophagidae (Typhaea stercorea) and Chrysomelidae (Myochrous sp.). New records in previously known ge nera are Piestus pygmaeus (Staphylinidae), Trogoderma sp. 2 (Dermestid ae), Lyctus sp. (Lyctidae), Cryptolestes sp. (Cucujidae), and Hapalips sp. 2 (Languriidae). The Galapagos beetle fauna is now known to conta in 59 families, 238 genera, and 411 species.