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INSECTA, COLEOPTERA.
Clerus sobrius, \V&&.,=sphegeus, F.: Lee, Ann. N. H. ser. 4, vi. p. 401.
LICHTENSTELN (Pet. Nouv. 27, p. 108) notes having bred Trichodes leucopsideus
from dry bramble-stems, the beetle being parasitic on Ceratina callosa
and C. cyanea (Hymenop.).
Aphelocerus, g. n, Kirsch, B. E. Z. xiv. p. 369. Group of Tillides: tarsi
5-jointed; head short, oval; antennae 11-jointed, simple; eyes convex, finely
granulate, acutely emarginate in front. Sp. A. sturnus, sp. n, Kirsch, I, c.
p. 370, Bogota.
CUPESID^E.
Cupes clathratus, sp. n, Solsky, Hor. Ent. Ross. vii. p. 370, E. Siberia.
PTINID^E.
PERRIS (Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 4 e ser. ix. p. 467) quotes an account by Reveliere
of the damage done to collections of insects by larvae of Anobium
paniceum in Corsica [England might have been substituted with equal correctness
as the locality].
DUNNING (Pr. E. Soc. 1870, p. xxxiii) records the larva and imago of Anobium
paniceum as devouring Cayenne pepper.
The larva of Anobium paniceum is recorded as injurious to tea, particularly
scented orange Pekoe: Ent. 82, p. 162.
SHIMER (Amer. Ent. & Bot. ii. pp. 322-324), in an article on "Bookworms,"
describes and figures Anobium paniceum (F.) and Ptinus frontalis
(Mels, = brunneus, Dufts.), f. 200.
BECKER (Bull. Mose xiii. p. 183) notes the occurrence of (?) PtUinus grandicollis,
Fald, in furniture made of walnut.
GEMMINGER, ibid., makes the following alterations in nomenclature:—
Brachytrachelus (Moraw, nee Schon.) to Trachelobrachys, p. 124; PtUinus
aspericollis (Muls, nee Me'ne't.) to asperulus, p. 121.
Ptinus obesus, hos..,—pulchellus, Boield, $: v. Rottenberg, B. E. Z. xiv.
p. 245.
RYE (Ent. M. M. vi. p. 183) corrects an erroneous record of Microptinus
gonospermi (Du V.) as British.
ABEILLE DE PERRIN (Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 4