124 REPORT ON ZOOLOGY, MDCCCXLIII. 



Hope (Proc. Ent. Soc. p. 76) has continued his Report 

 on the Coleopterous Fauna of Port Essiugton (North New 

 Holland). On account of the insufficiency of the slightly 

 sketched diagnoses, and the uncertainty of the determination 

 of the genera, (Tuyenia and Asida are mentioned, which, 

 cannot possibly be found in New Holland) I defer my 

 Report until the memoir appears in a more satisfactory form 

 in the Transactions. The same observation applies to a 

 number of species instituted by the same author (ib. p. 71), 

 from the south-west of New Holland. 



CICINDELETJE. This family has been enriched with two new genera. Nyr- 

 liiecoptera, Germar (Guerin's Mag. de Zool., Ins. pi. 124), is considered by the 

 author to stand between Dromica and Apteroessa, with the former of which it 

 corresponds in the form of the labrum, and with the latter in the dilated, 

 second (not third) joint of the labial palpi. The second joint of the labial palpi, 

 however, is also enlarged in all the species of Dromica, even very much so in 

 Dr. nut, (/!/ /it, and i: if tufa. The much dilated compressed untcniiEe also, 

 which especially distinguish Myrmecoptera are present, though less deve- 

 loped, in some species of Dromica, as for instance D. clatJirata, so that 

 a thoroughly denned distinction between the new genus and Dromica, 

 is still a desideratum. The new species, M. eyreyia, is from Central Africa 

 (Fasogl.) 



Callidema, Gueriu (Rev. Zool. p. 12), unites with the aspect of Iresia and 

 Etqjfosopiis the short peduncle (called here the first joint) of the hilinl palpi of 

 Oxyyonia. The name coincides in substance with Calv/li-ma, Lap. C. Boussiy- 

 1/tinlfii was found by Goudot in New Granada, high up in the Cordilleras. The 

 larva resembles that of Cicind. campestris, and is said to be distinguished by 

 having only two, instead of three ocelli on each side. The larva of Cicindela, 

 however, has properly four ocelli, two large and two small, and probably 

 in the larva in question the two small ocelli have been overlooked. The habits 

 of the larva are similar to those of Cicindela. The Beetle does not fly. 



Guerin (ib. p. 14), has added two new species to Orycheila ; 0. aquatica, 

 black, with yellow legs and unspotted elytra; found by Goudot in New 

 Granada, at an altitude of 1400 in., (5500 feet) upon stones in the middle 

 of the river Chipalo. 0. Pmcllii, from Brazil, differs from 0. t fist is by the 

 smaller spot and broad truncated apex of the elytra. 



A second species (new) has been added to Oxyyonia, Mauncrh., bv 

 Germar, 0. dentipennis, from Brazil, (Gueriu, Mag. de Zool., Ins. pi. 124.) 



Loew (Eutoni. Zeit., s. 339) has described two species of Cidndda, from 

 Hither Asia, of \\hich one, C. quadrimaculata, from Asia Minor, is one of 



