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from Angola; G.favolimbata, punctipennis, DiabroticaZ-vitlata, Mannerh. 

 (Bull. Mosc. p. 308), from California. 



Aube (Ann. de la Soc. Ent. de Fr. 2 ser. i, p. 5) distinguishes three" species 

 standing near H. oleracea, the specific distinction of which is rendered 

 more certain by the differences of the situations in which they occur. The 

 true //. oleracea is found principally on the Cruciferse. H. Lythri, living on 

 the Lyth. Salicaria, is rather larger, has longer antennae, and is always blue ; 

 less shining, the transverse furrow on the prothorax shallower. H. Hippo- 

 pJwes, occurring on the Alps and in the Jura on Hipp, rhamnoides is distin- 

 guished from the preceding by an extremely minute, almost imperceptible 

 punctation, whilst the furrow of the prothorax is of unusual depth ; (this 

 latter appears to me to agree with H. comobrina, Duft.) H. erucee, OL, on 

 oak shoots, easily recognized by an elevated fold on the outer border of the 

 elytra. 



New Halticse are, H. graptodera pyritosa, Erichson (1. c.), from Angola ; 

 Grapt.plicipennis, calif ornica, Disonycha maritima, Mannerheini (Bull. Mosc. 

 p. 310), from California. 



COCCINELL^;. Ainoiiograph on the Austrian Coccinellee has been published 

 by Luclwig Redteubacher, in his Inaugural Dissertation : " Tentanien dis- 

 positiouis generum et specierum Coleopterorum Pseudotrimeroruni Archidu- 

 catus Austriae." Vind. 1813; printed also in the fifth volume of Germar's 

 Zeitschrift. f. d. Ent. 



Dejean's genera are, for the most part, received by the author. The 

 specification, however, of the characters upon which they are founded, is 

 confined to a summary table. 



Two new genera instituted by the author are very good : ExocAomm, which 

 includes C. ^-pitstulata, L., and aurita, Scr., is distinguished from Cliilocorus 

 by the simple anterior margin of the head, but it differs still more in the form 

 of the legs. Platynaspis contains Sc. bisbipustulatics, which approaches both 

 the above-named genera in having the anterior border of the head dilated 

 before the eyes ; besides this, it differs from Scymnus in the 11-joiuted an- 

 tennae. The author has not noticed that in Scymnus the antennae are only 

 10-jointed. Further, the author correctly Limits Anisosticta to C. 19-/jc- 

 tata, and characterizes it by the simple claws ; he less correctly associates 

 the other long forms with Coccinella ; the genus Hippodamia, Dej. (C. mu- 

 tabilis, 1 Z-punctata, 1-maculatci) differs from the true Coccinellce in the claws 

 being cloven behind the apex, they having the tooth at the very root of the 

 claw. The American species of Anisosticta proposed by Dejeau (IQ-macu- 

 lata, &c.), correspond indeed with Coccinella in the form of the claw, but 

 present one character in common with Hvppodamia, winch distinguishes them 

 both from Coccinella, viz. the much contracted root of the mentuni. Cocc. 

 M. nigrum, which Dejean makes an Anisosticta, is a true Coccinella. 



