INSECTA. 153 



PAUSSILI. Westwood (Arcana Eutom. pi. 49, 50, 58) has begun a new 

 monograph on tliis family, of which the present Parts, include the genus 

 Cerapteriis (with the sub-genera Cerapterus, Orthopterus, Artkropterus, 

 Phi/matopterus, Homopterus, Pleuropterus), Ceratoderus, Lebioderus, Hylotorus. 

 One species set up as new, Cerapt. Arthropterus Hopei, from Port Philip, 

 I do not regard as differing essentially from C. Mac Leayi, Don. The 

 numerous figures illustrating the different species, as well as the generic and 

 sub-generic characters, are valuable. The author has paid particular atten- 

 tion to the oral organs, in order to obviate mistakes in the description of 

 them, by means of precise representations. 



CUCUIIPES. Mauuerheim (Bull. Mosc. p. 303) has brought forward as 

 new species from Sitka : Cucuius puniceus, Esch., and Leemophlcetis longicornis. 



LONGICORNES. Westwood has given a review of the hitherto known 

 Stag-beetles from New Zealand. (Arcan. Eiit. ii, p. 25.) 



Prionii. A new New Zealand genus is Prinoplus, White. (Dieffenb. 

 New Zealand, ii, p. 256 ; also Westw. Arcaii. Eiit. t. 56, fig. 1.) The eyes 

 above and below much approximated, the mandibles short, the antenna} 

 more than two thirds the length of the body, the third to the eighth joint, 

 with a spine at the apex. The prothorax with woolly hairs and a spine on 

 each side ; the femora with two little teeth at the point. One species, Pr. 

 reticulatus, Wh. 



Chevrolat (Guer. Mag. de Zool. pi. 113) has illustrated his genus, Tri- 

 choderes, which was instituted in Dejeau's Catalogue. It has a close resem- 

 blance with JEgosoma ; the prothorax with two lateral spines ; is cliiefly cha- 

 racterized by the terminal joint of the maxillary palpi, which is simple in the 

 female, and much dilated and transversely set in the male, but which is 

 neither remarked upon in the description nor correctly represented in the 

 figure. Tr. pini, Ch., is found in the elevated parts of Mexico, under the 

 bark of firs. The larvae are eaten by the natives. 



The genus Torneutes, Reich., has been enriched with two species. Buquet 

 (Rev. Zool. p. 299) has described, together with the female of T. pattidi- 

 pennis, Reich., a new species, T. Bouchantii, also probably from Buenos 

 Ayres, and Guerin (ib. p. 300, 352) has added a third, T. obscurus, from 

 Patagonia, which differs from the former in its less size, and distinctly 

 punctated elytra. 



Upon Ctenoscelis, Buquet (Ann. de la Soc. Ent. de Fr. 2 ser. i, p. 231) 

 has given a ' Notice monograpliique.' He describes four species, Ct. ater 

 (Pr. ater, 01.), from Cayenne, Ct. Dyrrliacus, new species, from the same 

 part, Ct. Nausithous, Buq., from Bolivia, and Ct. acanthopiis, (Pr. acanth., 

 Serv.), from Brazil. In the first three species the antennae in the male are 

 as long as the body, in the last, shorter. The author refers the Ct. tuber- 

 culatus, Serv. (Pr. tub., (31.), from Cayenne, ! to the genus Mecosurthraji - 



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