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SPHINDID^;.
Sphindus dubius (Gj)l.)=hispidus (Payk.) : Thorns, Sk. Col. x. p. 43.
ClOIDjE.
Cis vUlosus (Marsh.) ?=plagiatus, Thorns.: Thorns. 1. e. p. 45.
CROTCH (C. H. vi. p. 112) comments upon G. R. Waterhouse's paper on
Cis (Tr. E. Soc. v. 1859) with regard to the Marshamian spp, of which he
considers that C. pyrrhocephalus must stand for setiger, Mell, and ruficornis
for oblongus, Mell.
Cis mierogonus, sp. n. Thorns. I. e. p. 46, and C. punctieollis, sp. n. Thorns,
Opusc. Ent. fasc. ii. p. 136, Sweden.
MELASOMATA.
Zophosides.
Zophosis nitidula (Mots, nee Sol.) is changed to steppensis: Gemminger,
C. H. vi. p. 121.
Erodiides.
Zophorus bremei (Guer, Breme), insignis (Blanch.), and moreleti (Lue) =
chilensis (Gray); Z. mexieanus (Sol. nee Hope) =jourdani (SalhS); Z. variolosus
(Stm.) =*nodulosus (Sol); Z. variolosus (Haldem.), nodulosus (Lee &
Home)=haldemanni (Sall6) ; Z. peetoralis (Lee) — nervosus (Sol): Salle,
C. H. vi. p. 113.
Adesmides.
Adesmia reticulata (Gerst. nee Klug) is changed to reticularis, and Stenocara
longipes (01. wee F.) to herbsti: Gemminger, ibid.
Tentyrides.
MOTSCHOULSKY (Bull. Mose xliii.) describes, amongst others, the following
species, which, from the want of references, given in all other instances,
would appear to be new; some of them, however, were certainly described
by the author in Bull. Mose xviii. 1845.
Rhostax convexieollis, p. 379, Steppes of Kirguises (an erroneous reference
is given to figures of this species, which creates a further doubt whether the
sp. be here described for the first time); Microdera excavata, p. 382, pi. iii.
figs. 6 & 7, Steppes of Kirguises; Tentyria valida, p. 382, pi. iii. f. 6 (no
locality given) ; T. robusta, p. 383, f. 8, Novo-Alexandrovsk ( ?—gigas, Fald,