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Meligethes ceneus. Von Frauenfeld (Verh. z.-b. Ges. Wien, xx. pp. 235-
236) records destruction caused to cruciferous plants by this species.
VON KIESENWETTER (B. E. Z. xiv. Beih. p. 104, note) objects to his Xenostrongytus
areuatus, from Middle Italy, being sunk as a synonym of the Madeiran
X. histrio, WoU.
E. A. Waterhouse records capture in oak-fungus in Yorkshire of Bhizophagus
cribratus in plenty (Ent. M. M. vi. p. 259).
Rhizophagus vagce, Wancowicz, =puncticollis, Sahib.: Ktz, B. E. Z. xiv.
p. 231.
Brachyleptus, g. n, Motschoulsky, Bull. Mose xiii. p. 352. Allied to
Brachypterus, but with simple hooks to the tarsi. Sp. B. tinctus (Mann,
Stronyylus).
New species -.—
Meliyethes ventralis, Baudi, I. c. p. 50, note, Piedmont.
Xenostrongylus truncatus, v. Kiesnw. I. e, Andalusia.
Cybocephalus metallicus, Baudi, I. c. p. 51 (and var. seminulum, p. 52), Asia
Minor.
Cryptarcha bifaseiata, Baudi, I. c. p. 52, Cyprus.
Bhizophagus punctiventris, Baudi, I. c. p. 53, note, Sardinia.
COLYDIADJE.
V. HEYDEN (B. E. Z. xiv. Beih. p. 106) refers to the geographical distribution
of Tarphius.
Schaufuss (Nunq. Otios. p. 46) redescribes his Anommatus pusiUus.
Hiketes thoracicus, King, = Nepharis alata, Casteln. : Pascoe, Pr. E. Soc.
1870, p. v.
The larvae of a Colydium are recorded by Gillman (Amer. Ent. & Bot. ii.
p. 240) as boring in beech-wood. Riley notes that the borings very closely
resemble those of Tomicus materiarius (Fitch) [on which it is to be presumed
the Colydium is parasitic],
Cyprogenia, g. n, Baudi, B. E. Z. xiv. p. 54. Facies of Holoparamecus, but
head small, produced in front, thorax narrower in front, and altogether duller.
Sp. C. denticulata, sp. n, Baudi, ibid., Cyprus.
Tarphius kiesenwetteri, sp. n, v. Heyd. I. c. p. 105, Serra de Gerez.
Bothrideres interstitialis, sp, n, v. Heyd. 1. c. p. 107, Escorial and Serra de
Gerez.
Monotonia sericella, sp. n, v. Rottenberg, B. E. Z. xiv. p. 237, Sicily ;
M. 4c-dentata, sp. n, Thomson, Opusc. Ent. fasc. iii. p. 333, and M. parallela,
sp. n. Thorns, ibid. p. 334, Sweden.
CUCUJID^E.
Mraphilus nasutus, Chevr.,=fibulatus, Ktz. P : v. Rottenberg, B. E. Z. xiv.
p. 236.
JEraphUus carpetanus, sp. n, v. Heyd, B. E. Z. xiv. Beih. p. 108, Sierra
Guadarrama.
CRYPTOPHAGIDiE.
PERRIS (NOUV. et faits div. p. ix) records the capture of Bonibus montanus