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INSECTA, COLEOPTERA.
but Lacordaire is wrong in referring the P. silphoides of the latter to the
P. depressa of the former: C. 0. Waterhouse, Ent. M. M. vi. p. 284.
Sepidium reichei, sp. n, Allard; diagnosis in Pet. Nouv, 1 Jan. 1870,
Tunis, Algeria, &e
Vieta (errore Victa) algeriana, sp. n, Allard; diagn. in Pet. Nouv, 1 Jan,
1870, Algeria.
Crypticides.
Crypticus zophosioides, sp. n, v. Heyden, B. E. Z. xiv. Beih. p. 131, Spain
and Portugal; C. sibiricus, sp. n, Solsky, Hor. Ent. Ross. vii. p. 373, E.
Siberia.
Pedinides.
Pedinus longulus, sp. n, v. Rottenberg, B. E. Z. xiv. p. 249, Sicily.
Hopatrides.
GEMMINGER (C. H. vi.) makes the following changes:—Loboderus (Muls.
& Rey nee Guer.) to Lobothorax; Hopatrum setulosum (Kiist. nee Fald.) to
trichopterum ; H. patruele (Kiist. nee Er.) to vicinum.
The larva and pupa of Hopatrum sabulosum are briefly described by Lucas
(Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 4 e ser. x. p. lxxxii).
Isostira, g. n, Pascoe, Ann. N. H. ser. 4, v. p. 97. Differs from Hopatrum
in its clypeus being entire at the apex, and its labrum heing transverse and
not sinuate. Sp. I. erenata, sp. n, Pasc. 1. c. p. 98, Queensland.
Hopatrum validum, sp. n, v. Rottenberg, B. E. Z. xiv. p. 250, t. ii. f. 2,
H. messeniacum, sp. n, p. 251, t. ii. f. 1 & la, Sicily; H. grenieri, sp. n.,
Perris, L'Ab. vii. p. 19, Corsica.
Gonocephalum ussuriense, sp. n, Solsky, Hor. ent. Ross. vii. p. 374, E.
Siberia.
Trachyscelides.
PASCOE (Ann. N. H. ser. 4, v. p. 95) tabulates the 12 known genera of this
group, noting that Duval is the only author who has given the correct
number of 10 joints to the antennas of Trachyscelis.
Scymcena amphibia, sp. n, Pasc. I. c. p. 94, K. George's Sound.
Bolitophagides.
Bolitophagus gibbifer, Wesm., has nothing to do with Byrsax ceenoaus,
Pascoe; its generic position is as yet undecided. P. de Borre, Ann. E.
Belg. xiii. c.-r. p. x.
Usechus, Mots, has nothing to do with Rhagodera, Er, Mann, as Lacordaire
states, but is to be placed near Ulodes. Motschoulsky, Bull. Mose xliii.
p. 406.
Myehestes, g. n, Pascoe, Ann. N. H. ser. 4, v. p. 96. Antennas clavate,
10-jointed, club biarticulate; ant. tibiae subfusiform; elytra ovate, metast.
very short. Sp. M. lignarius, sp. n, Pasc. /. e. p. 97, Queensland.
Byrsax saccharatus, ep. n, Pascoe, /. c. p. 95, Queensland.