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For EhizoMtis, Stepli., the author adopts the name Nitndina, because the 

 former had been previously (1835) applied to a genus of the Aphidse ; 

 the genus however was already constituted by Stephens in 1829, and 

 confirmed in 1831, in the ' Illust. Brit. Ent.' Finally, Cynegetis, Dej., is 

 limited to C. impimctata, since C. globosa is admitted as Epilachna. 



A conspicuous new species for the German Fauna, is Hyperaapis ^-macidata, 

 Redt., which has been already long known as occurring in Hungary, and 

 Hither Asia ; the author is less fortunate with a series of species of Scymnm 

 setup as new, since his Sc. affinis = frontalis $ , Sc. flavicollis is probably 

 a variety of Sc. marginaUs $ , Sc. quadriUum = Sc. frontalis, var. $ , Sc. 

 bisljisignatus = Sc. frontalis, var. $ , lastly, Sc. basalts = marginalis, var. 

 Coccinella has been increased with three new species, C. magnified, Ziegl., 

 distincta, Meg., and alpina, Redt. ; of which, however, as regards the first two, 

 the difference between them and C. 1-punctata is not very apparent from the 

 meagre description. Corylophus (Clypeaster) is excluded by the author from 

 the family of the Coccinellte, on account of the peculiar conformation of the 

 mandibles; through extra European species, however, there is exhibited in that 

 respect not only an almost imperceptible transition from Scymmis, but, 

 according even to the author's own statement, the lance correspond with 

 those of the Coccinellae. 



Suffrian (Ent Zeit. p. 93) has made known an hitherto undescribed German 

 species of Hyperaspis, with iinspottecl elytra, under the name of Cocc. con- 

 color. Farther (ib. p. 330), he has discussed the numerous varieties of 

 Scymmis frontalis. 



Newly constituted European species are, Hippodamia scalaris, from the 

 Alatau mountains, and Micraspis lineola, from the Alakul and Saisau Lakes, 

 by Gebler. (Bull. Acad. Petersb. i, p. 39.) Cocc. effusa, nassata ; Chilocorus 

 nigripennis, from Angola, by the Reporter. (Archiv. i, p. 266.) Hippodamia, 

 mttigera, Coccinella californica, Scymnus marginicollis, from California, by 

 Manuerheim. (Bull. Mosc. p. 312.) 



ENDOMYCHID^E. This family has been treated of by Redtenbacher (1. c.), 

 but no new genera or species have been formed. 



An elegant monograph on the genus Calyptoliim, Vill., has been furnished 

 by Aube. (Ann. de la Soc. Ent. de Fr. 2 ser. i, p 241.) The genus there 

 includes four species, C. Villae, Roiid., from Milan; C. caul-arum, in France, 

 collected in numbers in dung heaps ; C. Kunzei, found by Kunze in Brazilian 

 fungi; C. nigrum, discovered by Melly in Sicily. (The last, of a lighter 

 colour, has been sent to us from Sardinia, by Gene ; besides this, our collec- 

 tion possesses several more species.) With respect to the place of the genus 

 the author is not clear, he is inclined to associate it with Cholovocera, 

 Mot sch. ; it appears to me to be placed most naturally in this family. 

 Gueriu (Rev. Zool. 1844, p. 33) has correctly remarked that the genus was 



