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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In Latreille's system of classification, the second family of his tetramerous Coleoptera, containing many forms now distributed among the Bostrichidæ, Mycetophagidæ, Cioidæ, Lathridiidæ, Cucujidæ, Colydiidæ, and Trogositidæ.
  • noun In Meigen's classification, same as Xylophagidæ.

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