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CHAPMAN, T. ALGERNON. On the habits of Platypus cylindrus,
Fab. Ent. M. M. vii. pp. 103-106, 132-135.
The author supplements the accounts of this species given by
Ratzeburg and Perris by fully describing its habits.
. On the parasitism of Rhipiphorus paradoxus. Ann.
N. H. (4) v. pp. 191-198.
——. Some facts towards a life-history of Rhipiphorus paradoxus.
L. c. vi. pp. 314-326, pi. xvi.
CHAUDOIR, Baron MAXIMILIEN DE. Essai monographique sur
le genre Abacetus, Dejean. Bull. Mosc. xiii. pp. 355-410.
Also describes spp. of Chlceminus (Mots.), and characterizes a
new allied genus. 40 new spp. are described in all.
. Monographie des Graphipterides. Ibid, xliii. pp. 284-
340.
CHEVROLAT, AUG. Coleopteres de File de Cuba. (Suite: 1.)
Notes, Synonymies et Descriptions d'especes nouvelles.
Huitieme memoire. Famille des . Dascyllides et Malacodermes.
Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. (4) x. pp. 67-78. [7 e mem. /. c.
1867.]
Describes 25 spp. of Cuban Dascyllidee and Lycides, of which
17 are treated as new.
CROTCH, G. R. The genera of Coleoptera studied chronologically.
Tr. E. Soc. 1870, pp. 41-52 (1735-1801), pp. 213-
241 (1802-21).
The author considers that a genus consists of but one species
necessarily, viz. its type ; and is therefore not defined by variable
characters, but by knowledge of type species ; hence, that genera
proposed in catalogues on previously described spp. are entitled
to priority. He points out many errors in dates. The present
portions conclude with the genera of Dejean and his contemporaries,
and the author hopes in a third part to carry the work
down to the commencement of the ' Berichte J in 1836.
The first part of Crotch's paper is translated into German by
v. Harold, and appears in C. H. vi. pp. 70-83.
. Notes on British Coleoptera. Ent. 73, pp. 7-11.
Notes (compiled from Bedel's monograph) on the British spp. of
Triplax, and extracts from Des Loges's monograph oiRhynchites.
CZWALINA, G. Drei neue deutsche Arten der Staphylinen-
Gattung Oxytelus. B. E. Z. xiv. pp. 419-423.
DESBROCHERS DES LOGES, J. Description d'Apionides et de
quelques autres especes de Curculionides nouveaux. Mitth.
schw. ent. Ges. iii. pp. 179-205.
Contains descriptions of 33 new spp. of the genera Apion,