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Cleopus verbasci (Duf.) = Gymnetron antirrhini (auct.); C. uncinatus
(Duf.) =asellus (Gr.), the larva of which lives in stems of Verbascum: Perris,
ibid.
Gymnetron heydenii, sp. n, Desbr. des Loges, B. E. Z. xiv. Beih. p. 158,
Alhamhra; G. griseohiriellus, sp. n, Desb. d. L. 1. c. p. 159, Corsica and Serra
Estrella.
Lcemosaccides.
Lcemosaccus brevipennis, sp. n, Pascoe, P. L. S. x. p. 439, and L. synopticus,
sp. n, Pasc. I. c. p. 440, Queensland; L. tantulus, sp. n, Pasc. I. c. p. 439, W.
Australia.
Alcidides.
Alcides. Pascoe, I. e, describes the following new species:—A. saundersii,
p. 459, pi. xix. f. 4, Siam; magicus, Cambogia, delta, Ceylon, Ceram, Amboyna,
trifidus, N. China, Japan, Mantchuria, p. 460; ligatus,Ja,va,, discedens,
Singapore, Sarawak, asphdltinus, Batchian, Gilolo, p. 461; semperi, p. 462,
Philippines.
Alcides heilipoides, sp. n, Pascoe, Tr. E. Soc. 1870, p. 211, Victoria.
Haplony chides.
Aolles, g. n, Pascoe, P. L. S. x. p. 450. Differs from Haplonyx solely in its
6-jointed funiculus and 3-jointed tarsi. Metatyges, Physarchus, and Siyastus,
Pasc, should probably also be referred to this subfamily. Sp. A. rubiginosus
and A. nuceus, spp. nn, Pasc. 1. c. p. 451, W. Australia.
Haplonyx. Pascoe, I. c, describes the following new spp.:—H. myrrhatus,
p. 488, ericeus, p. 490, venosus, centralis, and cionoides, p. 491, turtur, p. 492,
S. Australia; ustipennis, p. 488, Sydney; dotatus, ibid, lucius, p. 489, W.
Australia; vestigialis and fallaciosus, p. 489, majalis and scolopax, p. 490,
Queensland.
Metatyges cupreus, sp. n, Pascoe, I. c. p. 443, Gold Coast.
Cholides.
Polyderces dilutatus, sp. n, Taschenb, Z. ges. Naturw. 1870, Bd. i. p. 189,
Columbia.
Cryptorhynchides.
Conotrachelus nenuphar, "the plum Curculio.'' For an account of experiments
as to the ovipositing of this N. American pest, see Saunders, Canad.
Ent. ii. pp. 137-139 (Extr. of Rep. read at meeting of Fruit Growers' Assoc.
Ont.). Remedies are discussed by Riley in Amer. Ent. ii. p. 130. Figures
are given of its principal stages, f. 92.
Crypharis [=Torneuma, Wollast.] raymondii, sp.n, Perris, L'Ab. vii.
p, 28, Sardinia.
Arthrostenus alternans, sp. n., Kirsch, B. E. Z. xiv. p. 393, Egypt.
PASCOE, P. L. S. x, characterizes the following new genera and species:—
Diaphna, p. 445. Belongs to Lacordaire's subtribe Ithyporides (no differential
comparison given). Sp. D. signata, pi. xvii. f. 4, and D. auritipennis,
p. 446, Natal.
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