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SCHAUFUSS (Nunq. Otios. p. 48) redescribes his Thylacites pretiosm and
Strophosomus bceticus.
Thylacites ningnidus, Germ.,=rubi (Gyll.), and is not a Polydrosus, but a
Sciaphilus: Thomson, Sk. Col, x. p. 176.
Damage to peas by Sitones lineatus and S.fiavescens is noticed in Ent. 79,
p. 117. °
PASCOE (Tr. Ent. Soc. 1870, pp. 13-40) tabulates and describes 39 spp. of
the Australian genus Catasarcus, of which all but 5 are treated as new. He
refers to an exudation, in the form of small grains, as if sprinkled with sand,
and to a waxy varnish, apparently part of the true integument, occurring
in certain of these species.
Ochrometa, g. n, Pascoe, P. L. S. x. p. 449. An isolated genus, according
to the author. Sp. O. amama, sp. n, Pasc. I, c. p. 450, pi xvii. f. 6, W.
Australia.
OInassus, g. n, Pascoe, ibid. p. 470. Allied to Cneorhinus, but with the
facies of Strophosomus. Sp. (E. sellifer, sp. n, Pasc. 1. c. p. 471, pi xviii.
f. 12, Old Calabar.
Eutinophcea, g. n, Pascoe, Tr. E. Soc. 1870, p. 181. Near Foucartia, Duv.
Scrobe straight and transverse, lying between the eye and mouth, but rather
nearer the former. Sp. E. nana, sp. n, Pasc. I. c. p. 182, pi. v. figs. 6 a & 6 b,
S. Australia.
Evas, g. n, Pascoe, ibid. p. 182. Differs from Prosayleus in its cylindrical
prothorax and shorter fore legs. Sp. E. erassirostris, sp. n, S. Austr.; argenteiventris,
sp.n, Queensland; acuminata, sp. n., K. George's Sound:
Pascoe, I. c. p. 183,
New species:—
Cneorhinus cordubensis, Kirsch, B. E. Z. xiv. Beih. p. 173, Cordova.
Strophosomus. Seidlitz (I.e.) describes the following new species:—5.
globulus, p. 153, Coimbra and Leon; (Neliocarus) ebenista, ibid, Castille,
Arragon; (N.) formosus, p. 154, Serra Estrella; (N.) ovulum, ibid, Branuelas;
(N.) sagitta, p. 155, Valencia and Algesiras.
Sciaphilus maculatus, Hampe, B. E. Z. xiv. p. 334, Agram; S. ccesius,
Hampe, I. c. p. 335, Siebenbiirgen.
Brachyderes quereus, Bell, de la Chavig, Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 4