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BAUDI (B. E. Z. xiv. p. 77) refers to a var. from Asia Minor of Pentodon
monodon (F.), provisionally named xyphias by Truqui.
LUCAS (Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 4« ser. x. Bud. p. xii) remarks generally on
Megalosoma, and records the pupae of both sexes of M. adeem (L.), from
Cayenne.
New species:—
Cyclocephala longiceps, Kirsch, B. E. Z. xiv. p. 370, and C. munda, Kirsch,
I. c. p. 371, Bogota; C. marginalis, Kirsch, I. e. p. 372, Sta. Catharina, Brazil.
Stenocrates leevicollis, Kirsch, I. c. p. 373, Bogota.
Corynoscelis Ardens, Taschenb. Z. ges. Naturw. 1870, Bd. i. p. 185, Ecuador.
Heterogomphus 6-dentatus, Taschenb. I e. p. 186, Bogota.
Pentodon dispar, Baudi, I. c. p. 76, Cyprus ( —puncticollis, Burm, sec. typ,
according to Reiche: Kraatz, ibid. note).
Cetoniades.
DESBROCHERS DES LOGES (B. E. Z. xiv. Beih. p. 119) describes, under
the name raffrayi, an Andalusian var. of Cetonia oblonga, Gory, and (L'Ab.
vii. p. 98) redescribes his own Cetonia subpilosa.
BAUDI (B. E. Z. xiv. p. 78) briefly describes vars. from Cyprus of C.fioricola,
Hbst.
Euryomia melancholica (G. & P.) is figured, and recorded as damaging
pear-blossoms in Illinois, Amer. Ent. i. p. 32, f. 23.
Cremastochilus armatus (Walk.) = angularis (Lee) : Lee, Ann. N. H. ser. 4,
vi. p. 400.
Neophcedimus [rectius Neopheedimus], g. n, Lucas, Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 4 e
ser., Bull. p. lxxx. Near Mycteristes, Cast, and Pheedimus, Westw.; differing
from the former in its much larger, more elongate, and anteriorly
bicornute frontal development, much more pronounced sternal tubercle, and
shorter and stouter anterior legs; and from the latter, apart from the above
mentioned frontal peculiarities, in its spiniform thoracic prolongation, which
is situated behind the ant. border. Sp. N. auzouxii, sp. n, Luc. ibid. p. Ixxxi,
Se-Tehuen.
Gymnetis lutulenta, sp. n, Kirsch, B. E. Z. xiv. p. 374, Bogota.
BTJPRESTIDJE.
E. SAUNDERS (Cat. of spp. cont. in Buprestis, Linn. &c.) gives
a list of the species contained in the genus Buprestis of Linnaeus
previous to its subdivision by Eschscholtz in 1829, referring each
to its present genus. Somewhat original views on the laws of
nomenclature are indicated in the preface.
The author makes the foUowing changes:—Julodis tomentosa (Hbst. nee
01.) to herbstii; Chrysaspis aurata (F. nee Pall.) to chrysipennis; C. elonyata
(01. nee Hbst.) to elongaluta [sic]; Psiloptera variolosa (F. nee Panz.) to binominata;
P. morbillosa (01. pi. iv. nee pi. viii.) to olivieri; Acmceoder a polita (Kl.
nee Say) to klugii; Sphenoptera polita (Thunb. nee Say) to thunbergi; Conognatha
trifasciata (F. nee Thunb.) to fasciolata; Melybeus ceneicollis (Villers
nee Deg.) to villersii; Agelia limbata (Wiedm. nee Don.) to wiedmunni; Stenogaster
plana (F. nee 01.) to planula; Agrilm leucostictus (Kl. nee Kby.) to