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Of Tenelrionides, Westwood (Arct. Ent. pi. 87) lias figured the several 

 species of the remarkable genus Chiroscelis, including a very handsome new 

 one, australis, from Southern Africa; but Ch. passaloides, Westw., can 

 scarcely remain associated with this genus, the many-toothed fore shanks, 

 broad hind shanks toothed at the tip outside, and the absence of the charac- 

 teristic spots on the second segment of the abdomen, presenting differences 

 of moment. 



Fischer v. W. (Bull. Mosc. 123) has added to the genus Calcar two 

 new species, crassipes and sulcatus, from Southern Russia. 



Of the Diaperiales we have new species, Uloma fahraei and westringii, 

 Mauuerh. (Bull. Mosc. 850, 857), from Java, and Boletophagus trlcostatus 

 and granulatas, Fisch. (ibid. 128), the former from Turkestan, the latter 

 from Songary. 



New species of the Helopii are Helops anthracinus (Dej.), Kiister (Kaf. 

 Eur.i,47), from Sicily; H. sulcatus, Fisch. (Bull. Mosc. 124), from Anatolia ; 

 xn&Strongylium rujipenne, Kollar and Redt. (Hiig. Kaschm. 533, pi. 25, f. 3), 

 from Cashmere. 



CISTELIDES. Mannerheim (Bull. Mosc. 197), has found in Finland a 

 new species, Mycetochares bimaculata, in decayed birch timber. 



MELANDRYAD^E. Braselmann (Verhandl. Naturf.Vereius preuss. Rhein- 

 lancl. Yr. ], p. 17) has given some account of the transformation of 

 Orchesia micans. The larva, of which no farther description is given, lives 

 in the common tinder boletus (Poli/porus iyniarius), winters there, and 

 changes in spring, so that the perfect insect comes out in May. The author 

 has attended more particularly to the mode in which this species leaps, 

 which is effected by means of the hiud legs, when the insect is laid on its 

 back, in the same manner as in the Water-beetles, as Cy bister and 

 Laccopldlus. 



MORDELLON^E. Suffriau (Eut. Zeit. 25) has pointed out the characters 

 which distinguish the sexes in the species of Anaspis. In the male of A. 

 frontalis the segment last but two of the abdomen has a pair of narrow leaf- 

 shaped appendages. This peculiar character is found in like manner in 

 several other species which resemble the one named, including flara and 

 obscura, Gyll. In A. biyuttata, Marsh., the male is to be distinguished only 

 by a sharp ridge down the middle of the last segment. In A. ntjicollis and 

 thoracica, and in the broader species in general, the author has discovered 

 no external differences between the sexes. 



Anew species of Mordella is M. troglodytes, Maunerh. (Bull. Mosc. 198), 

 from Finland. It is allied to M. pusilla, Dej. 



LAGBIARI^E. To the genus Lagria have been added the new species tenea, 

 ncmabilis and //icolor, Kollar and Itedt. (Hiig. Kashm. 533), from 

 Cashmere; and./,. aureopilosa,iiQ Guillou(llcv. Zool. 225), from New Guinea. 



