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GYKINI. Suffrian has furnished supplementary remarks to his former 

 memoir on the German Gyrini. (Eut. Zeit. ss. 25, 369.) 



STAPHYLINI. The examination of Ants' nests continues to afford ac- 

 cessions of new species, especially of this family. Several new Myrrne- 

 cophila found in the Oberlausitz, have been described by v. Kiesen- 

 wetter (Ent. Zeit. s. 306), Oxypoda familiaris, Dinarda Mdrkelii (the larger 

 of the two forms hitherto included under D. dentutu, which the author con- 

 siders should be specifically separated from the smaller, to \vhich latter the 

 Lorn, dentata of Gravenhorst is to be referred), Othius myrmecophilus, 

 Scopaus pusillus. In Finland, Count Manncrheim has paid particular atten- 

 tion to the Myrmecophila, and has observed, among a number of known 

 species, also several new ones : ILomalota fossigera, O.ri/poda, myrmecobia, 

 latiuscula, Oligota tantilla, TacJn/porus pulchellits, Steints formicetorum. 

 (Bull. Mosc. p. 77.) Chevrolat (Rev. Zool. p. 42) has described a new 

 species, Mi/rmedoiiia nignveiitris, from Calais, where it lives on the sea shore. 

 Aube (Ann. d. 1. Soc. Ent. d. Fr. 2 ser. i, p. 90) in correction, refers it to 

 the genus Homalota. 



Aube (ib.) describes two interesting new species from the South of 

 Europe : Oedichirus unicolor, from Badajoz in Andalusia, and Bledius tristis, 

 from Sicily. 



Kelluer (Eut. Zeit. s. 31) describes Qucdius riparius, a new species from 

 the Eorest of Thuringia. 



Several new species from Angola have been described by the Reporter (1. c.) : 

 Myrmedonia satelles, mturalis ; Pliilonthtis liospes ; Cryptobium tricolor; 

 Ptfderus angolensis ; ^Edichints terminatus. 



Mauuerheim (Bull. Mosc. p. 221) has characterized as new species, from 

 Sitka : Hoiiialota mantima, picipennis ; Aleochara castaneipennis, sulcicollis ; 

 Tachimis niyricornis, propinquus ; Othius californicus ; Staphylinus tursalis, 

 Siegwaldii; Quedius plagiatus, Imnnipeiinis; Oxytelus fusdpennis; Antho- 

 phagm laticollis; Arpedium testaceum, maculicolle; Omalium plagiatmn ; An- 

 thobiumpothos; and further, from California, Philonthus californicus albionicus. 

 BUPKESTIDES. A contribution to the natural history of the Buprestides, 

 has been made by Pecchioli (Guer. Mag. de Zool. 1843, pi. 120, 121), based 

 upon the natural history of B. Fubricii (upon which we also possess a 

 memoir by Bertolini, vide last Report) and B. mariana. The larva and pupa 

 of the latter are figured. A report upon the occurrence and on the larva 

 of Dicerca berolinensis has been given by Kliugelhofer. (Ent. Zeit. p. 87.) 

 The history of the metamorphosis of Agrilus biguttatus is detailed by 

 Goureau (Ann. d. 1. Soc. Ent. d. Fr. 2 ser. i, p. 23, t. ii) as something 

 new, although it has been already given by Ratzeburg, (Forztinsekteu.) 

 The larva is one of those furnished with a horny fork at the apex of the 

 abdomen. 



