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DYTISCID.E. Dr. Scliaum (Entom. Zeit. 195) has examined the syno- 

 nyms of some species of Hi/droporus. 



1. H. nil/roll iieatus, Stev., = emieagramnms, Ahr. but H. nigrolineatus, 

 Sch., parallelus, Aube, = scfioenherri (consobrinus, Zett 5 o ) andH. nigro- 

 lineatus , Kuuze, = par allelogr animus. 



2. H. affinis, St., =.f rater, Kunze, = assimilis, Payk. 



3. H. borealis, Gyll. Aube, == alpimts, Duft., = septentrionalis, Heer., = 

 Daviesii, Curtis ; and H. septentrionalis, Gyll., = alpimts, Kunze. 



4. H. castaneus, Heer, = oeatus, St. 



5. B. melanoceplialus, St., =pubescens, Aube. 



6. H.foveolatus, Heer, = niealis, Heer (with accidental impressions). 



7. H. suturalis, Miill. (Germ. Mag. iv, 225) = granularis. 



8. H. delicatulus is a new species from Austria, where it was confounded 

 with H. minutissimus. 



The following new species are to be noticed : Trochalus mgulosus and 

 Colymbetes lincatus, Kollar and Redt. (Hiig. Kaschm. 502, pi. 23, fig. 5 the 

 Colymbetes), from Cashmere ; Laccophilus yvietae, Le Guillou (Rev. Zool. 

 220), from Chili; lastly, Haliplus lineolatus and pictus, Maunerh. (Bull. 

 Mosc. 190, 2, 3), from Finland. 



Horuung (Gruudl. Verz. Harz.) enumerates ]00 species of Dytiscida and 

 Gyrinidee, so that the Harz district is about on a par with Sweden and 

 Switzerland in the number of species in this family. A species new to the 

 German Fauna is Agabus conspersus (Dyt. id., Marsh., Colymb. id., Steph., = 

 Col. subnebiilosus, Steph., Agabus id., Aube, Ag. nebulosus, Schiodte), found 

 in brackish water near Strassfurth. 



BUPRESTIDES. Lucas (Rev. Zool. 49, 87) has described new species 

 from Algiers : Julodis setifensis, Buprestis levaillantii, mauritanica, Sphenop- 

 tera mttaticollis, Acmeeodera mauritatdca, tristis, muUipunctata, melanosoma, 

 flavopundata, rubromaculata, flavmittata, Antliaxia mttaticollis. From some 

 remarks by Chevrolat (ib. p. 134), followed by a reply from Lucas, and a 

 rejoinder by the other, it should appear that the last-named species is iden- 

 tical with Anth. fendae, Gene., from Sardinia. Chevrolat is of opinion also 

 (seemingly not without reason) that Sphenoptera vittaticollis, Luc., is not 

 distinct from Euprestis rauca, F. According to my recollection of Bupr. 

 sanyuinea, F., which I saw eleven years ago in the collection at Copenhagen, 

 Bupr. (Ancylochira} levaillantii, Lucas, very much resembles that species, if 

 it be not a mere variety of it, which the description by Fabricius is not suffi- 

 cient to determine. 



Other new species are, Sternocera dasypleiiros and Agrilus caschmirensis, 

 Kollar and Redt. (Hiig. K. 504), the former from the Himalaya, the latter 

 from Cashmere ; also Agrilus blandulus, Guer. (Rev. Zool. 256), from Mexico. 



Lucas (Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. ii, 315) has illustrated the natural history of 



