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and the genus is named Atenistes by Pascoe (I. c. p. 464), who refers to the
habits of certain of the species.
Atenistes longirostris, sp. n, Pasc. ibid., and A. denticollis, sp. n., Pascoe, I. c.
p. 465, pi xix. f. 6, Brazil.
Erodiscus analis, sp. n.,Pasc. /. c. p. 465, Brazil.
Magdalinides.
DESBROCHERS DES LOGES (L'Ab. vii.) monographs the European spp. of
Magdalinus, describing 23, of which 5 are treated as new. He points out
that the claws are not, as stated by Lacordaire, simple in all the spp, M.
carbonarius, aterrimus, and cerasi having a small triangular tooth at the
base; and that the tarsi are not 4-jointed, as the claws are let into a cavity
at the apex of the 4th joint. The author (p. 31) describes a var. of M. duplicatus,
Germ, under the name parallelocollis, from the Eastern Pyrenees,
and gives the following synonymy:—M. heros, Kiist,=memnonius (Gyll,
Fald.), p. 12; M. frontalis (Gyll), var. $ , and punctirostris (Gyll), var.
o", = violaceus (Lin.), p. 26 ; M. punctipennis, Kiist, and linearis (Gyll),
var. ~B, = duplicatus, Germ, p. 29; M. atrocyaneus, Boh, Sch,=carbonarius
Ch.), var, p. 37; M. asphaltinus, Germ,=aterrimus (L.), p. 39.
The following new spp. are described :—M. heydeni, p. 21, Frankfort-onthe-Maine,
England, Chamounix, Sweden; cceruleipennis, p. 24, Austria,
Turkey; striatulus, p. 32, N. Germany ; mixlus, p. 51, Bavaria; turcicus, p. 62,
Constantinople.
Anthonomides.
DESBR. DES LOGES (B. E. Z. xiv. Beih. p. 158) describes, under the name
of con fusus, a Portuguese var. of Orchestes avellance (Donov.).
Anthonomus stierlini, sp. n, Desbr. d. L, Mitth. schweiz. ent. Ges. iii.
p. 189, Athens; A. bituberculatus, sp.n. Thorns, Skand. Col. x. p.212, Sweden.
Acalyptus fuscipes, sp.n, Thomson, Opusc. Ent. fasc. iii. p. 337, Sweden.
Diapelmus ventralis, sp. n, Pascoe, Tr. E. Soc. 1870, p. 205, W. Australia;
D. erichsoni, sp. n, Pasc. ibid., S. Australia.
Tychiides.
The insect referred to, Zool. Rec. vi. p. 278, as Sibinia statiees (Moncreaft,
MS.) is Sibynes sodalis (Germ.) : Rye, Ent. M. M. vi. p. 257.
Tychius bellus, sp. n, Kirsch, B. E. Z. xiv. Beih. p. 174, Andalusia; T. deliciosus,
sp. n, Perris, L'Ab. vii. p. 26, Sardinia.
Pachytychius bceticus, sp. n, Kirsch, /. c. p. 175, Andalusia.
Sibynes bipunctatus, sp. n, Kirsch, B. E. Z. xiv. p. 393, Egypt.
Gymnetrides.
RUPERTSBERGER (Verh. z.-b. Ges. Wien, xx. p. 839) records some-observations
on the economy of Gymnetron linarice (Pz.).
PERRIS (L'Ab. vii. p. 36), with regard to Kaltenbach's statement that
Gymnetron antirrhini lives on Linaria vulgaris, states that the insect now
usually known by that name lives in the capsules of different spp. of Verbascum
(especially V. phlomoides). He considers either the Paykullian statement of
habitat wrong, or that the modern G. antirrhini is erroneously named.