Kovács I. Endre szerk.: Rovartani Közlemények (Folia Entomologica Hungarica 10/1-12. Budapest, 1957)

ROVARTANI KÖZLEMÉNYEK FOLIA ENTOMOLOGICA HUNGARICA (SRRIES NOVA) TOM. X. 1 9 5 7. Nr. 2. Contribution to the knowledge of Dermestes in China Dermestes tessellatocollis Mötsch. (Col. Dermestidae) (2"

d communication on Dermestes L.

x

) by Jan Havelka, Prague (Czechoslovakia) Supplementary to the „Catalogue Insectorum Sinensium, Vol.III. 1937." /I.e./ by Prof. Dr. Çhenfu_F.Wu, there must be added two further species: Dermestes tessellatocollis Mötsch. 1860 /Pigs. 1-3/, distributed in Oriental Siberia, Tibet, China and Japan and D. dimidiatus orientalis

r Kusn. 1928, ranging to 'Southern Siberia, Mongolia and Southern China.** The Chinese Dermestes Fauna is widened consequently to four species. Aside of the above mentioned species there may also be found cosmopolitan ones in China: Dermestes maculatu3 Deg, 1774 =syn. vulpinus F. 1781 and D. frisch

i Kug. 1792 and the palaearctical species: Dermestes murinue 1. 1758 and D. mus té linus Er. 1846. In China, there could be possibly anticipated the occurence of the species: Dermestes sibiricus Er. 1846 /Southern Russia, Turkestan/, D. elegáns Sols. 1876 /Turkestan/, D.coarctatus Harold 1877 /Oriental Siberia, Japan/, D. fasciiventris Reitt. 1880/81 /Oriental Siberia/ and D. undulatus Brahm. 1790 /Central Europe, the Mediterraneum, Siberia and North America/. * 1

st and 3

rd communications: Entomologické Listy /Folia entomologica/, Brno, XIV, 1951, pg. 135-144. Forma typica: Southern Russia, Caucase.