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INSECTA, COLEOPTERA.
J. F. SCOTT (Ent. M. M. vii. p. 156) notes the occurrence of Opilus mollis
and Callidium variabile at sugar placed as a bait for moths.
• PERRIS (NOUV. et faits div. p. x) records two Xecrophorus vestigator, two
Catops u-atsoni, and ten specimens of a Homalota found in a dead Ceramhyx.
OBERTHUR (Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 4 e ser. x. Bull. p. xlix) records large
quantities of Coleoptera flying near or running on the surface of the ground
close to the crater of Vesuvius, and suffocated in small holes exhaling hot
sulphurous vapour. Emery (Pet. Nouv. 26, p. 104) recapitulates the prior
accounts of Costa and Carusi on the same subject.
BUTLER (Ent. M. M. vii. p. 59) records Spaight's evidence of certain large
Lucanidce and Longicornia at Moultan, N. India, habitually sawing off small
branches of trees in order to get at the exuding sap.
PERRIS (NOUV. et faits div. p. xi) adds Eucinetus meridionalis, Elater nigerrimus,
Dorcatoma setosella, Pogonocherus decoratus, and Asemum striatum to
his list of insects infesting Pinus maritima.
For notes by Gilnicki on the beetles of the cave of Punto, cf Bull. Ent.
Ital. ii. p. 295. The same author (Pet. Nouv. 25, p. 100) makes some observations
on Cavern collecting:
BONVOULOIR (ibid. 28, p. Ill) adds his experiences on the same subject.
JOSEPH (JB. schles. Ges. xlvii. pp. 169-172) discusses the distribution of
species in different caves of Carinthia, and their general geographical extension
; he also notes certain facts concerning cave-insects which appear to
contradict the theory of descent, being of opinion that Darwin's acceptance
of the descent of eyeless subterraneous spp. from eyed upper-world insects is
as yet supported by no single fact.
PETTITT (Canad. Ent. ii. pp. 53, 65, 84, 102, 117, 131, 151) continues his
list of Coleoptera from Ontario, from the Hgdradephaga to the Bhynchophora
inclusive, containing several spp. not previously recorded in the Canadian
lists ; and (/. c. p. 156) records the result of sifting for beetles at Ontario.
PACKARD (Canad. Ent. ii. p. 119) gives a list of Coleoptera collected at
Caribou Island, Labrador, Straits of Belle Isle, in which are indications of
some new spp.
In protocol of 47th meeting of Soc. Imp. des amat. des sc. nat. &c. at
Moscow, January 1870, pp. 233-237, is an enumeration by Ballion of Coleoptera
from Irkoutsk. Indications of new species occur in it.
.SCHIODTE (Nat. Tids. ser. 3, vol. v. pp. 543, 514) makes sonio additions to
the Danish list of Cerambycidce, Bupvestidec, and Elateridce.
SCHWARZ (JB. schles. Ges. xlvii. p. 188) records Coleoptera found on the
Galatz Alps.
Fuss (Verh. siebenb. Ver. viii. lift. 3, p. 335 et seq.) gives a catalogue of
2810 spp. of Coleoptera occurring in the Siebenbiirg district.
^ KITTKL (20th Ber. Ver. Augs.) gives additions to and corrections of the list
of Coleoptera of Augsburg published in the 12th and 19th publications of the
same society.
LKTZNER (JB. schles. Ges. xlvii. p. 180) records spp. new to Silesia.
PIOCHAHD DE LA BRULERIK gives an account of his Syrian expedition, as
regards Coleoptera, Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr, 4* 8