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

Records are given for beetles new to the fauna of the Galapagos Islands. Reported for the first time are the families Haliplidae (Haliplus sp.), Eucnemidae (Fornax sp.), Jacobsoniidae (Derolathrus sp.), Biphyllidae (Anobocoelus sp.), Bothrideridae (Sosylus sp.), Melandryidae (= Scraptiidae) (Naucles spp.) and Anthicidae (Anthicus pallidus, Omonadus floralis, Sapintus sp.). First records are given for genera in Hydrophilidae (Dactylosternum abdominale and D. sp., Omicrus sp., Aculomicrus sp., Cycrillum strigicolle), Lyctidae (Minthea rugicollis, Trogloxylon parallelopipedum), Bostrichidae (Dinoderus minutus), Cleridae (Tarsostenus univittatus), Nitidulidae (Carpophilus dimidiatus, Urophorus humeralis, Brachypeplus sp.), Cucujidae (Silvanus sp., Monanus coccinulus), Languriidae (Cryptophilus sp.), Corylophidae (Molamba sp., ? Corylophodes sp.), Coccinellidae (Pentilia sp.), Endomychidae (Coluocera maderae), Colydiidae (Synchita sp.), Mycetophagidae (Typhaea stercorea) and Chrysomelidae (Myochrous sp.). New records in previously known genera are Piestus pygmaeus (Staphylinidae), Trogoderma sp. 2 (Dermestidae), Lyctus sp. (Lyctidae), Cryptolestes sp. (Cucujidae), and Hapalips sp. 2 (Languriidae). The Galapagos beetle fauna is now known to contain 59 families, 238 genera, and 411 species.