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Suffrian (Ib. s. 122) has given some remarks upon certain species of 

 Lema. New species from Sitka are, Donacia German, flavipennis ; Syneta 

 citrinata, Esch., Mannerli. (Bull. Mosc. s. 306.) 



Cassidariac. A new genus, Platyauchenia, has been described by Sturm 

 (Catal. p. 358, tab. vi, fig. 8), and illustrated with an extraordinarily beau- 

 tiful figure. It is allied to Alurmis, but has wider margins to the prothorax 

 and elytra, and is characterized chiefly by the globular ly expanded terminal 

 joint of the maxillary palpi. From this circumstance the genus has been 

 named Spliaropalpus, by Dejeau. PL limbata, from Brazil, is identical with 

 Sph. cilictus, Dej., and has also been already figured in Guerin's ' Iconogr. 

 Regn. An.' 



Prom California are the following new species : Odontota rubrolineata, 

 Coptocycla aurisplendens, Esch. ; Cassida Q-maculata, Manuerh. (Bull. Mosc. 

 p. 307.) 



Chrysomelariae. Two new species from Zongaria are, Chrysomela son- 

 garica and Gastropliysa virescens, Gebler. (Bull, de 1'Acad. de Petersburg, i, 

 p. 39.) 



Remarks upon the Silesian Ohrysomela have been communicated by 

 SchunimeL (Arb. u. Veraud. der. Scliles. Gesells. i. I. 1843, p. 195). Clir. 

 sowcionis, Kohler, has been retained as a distinct species ; and besides it two 

 new species have been proposed, Chr. fusco-<enea, and alpestris, the former of 

 which might, perhaps, be a variety of Chr. speciosa. 



The earlier states of CJirysomda (Lino) populi, and tremula, F., have been 

 observed by Kliugelhofer. (Ent. Zeit. p. 85.) 



Cryptocephalicla?. In Russegger's Reis. (i, 989), Clyilirn aleppensis 

 and Labidostomis lineola have been described by Redtenbacher as new spe- 

 cies, both from Syria ; the former, however, is identical with Cl. Q-p/mc- 

 tata, Ol. 



New species from Angola are, Clythra stride/, angustata, discors, hyacin- 

 thina, and Cryptocephalus angolensis, Erichson. (1. c. p. 263.) 



Manuerheim (Bull. Mosc. p. 311) has instituted as new species : CJilamys 

 conspersa, PacJii/brachis signatifrons, and Cryptocephalus cJialconatus, all from 

 California. 



Fairmaire (Ann. de la Soc. Ent. 2 ser. i, p. 13, tab. i) has instituted a 

 new genus, Bntcfiycaulus. It has the aspect of Clilamys, but all the cha- 

 racters of Cryptocephalus, except that the antennae are shorter, and slightly 

 serrated beyond the fifth joint. (The figure incorrectly represents them as 

 10-joiuted.) Br.ferruc/inem, from New Holland. 



Galerucitee. The sexual differences of the native Galeruca have been 

 investigated by Suffrian. (Ent. Zeit. p. 91.) 



New species are, Gal. thoracica, Redtenbacher (Russegg. Reis. i, 989), 

 from Syria ; G. delata, and G. (Monolepta) pauperata (Dej.), Erichson (1. c.), 



