ENTOMOLOGY. 



The new species described by Blanchard (d'Orb. Voy.) are Epicli/ies basalis, 

 from Chili (Valparaiso) ; Lasytes Jiavofasdatus (== Das. antis, Perty, Lap.), 

 D. rubrofasciatus (=cyanerythms, Pei*ty,b/fasciatus, Lap.), from Rio Janeiro; 

 D. atromaculatus, from the same ; D. cittaticollis, from the district of Cliti- 

 quiseca ; D. patagonicus, from Patagonia ; D. c'uicticollis, collected by St. 

 Hilaire at the mouth of the Uruguay ; D. luteits, mastus, from Chili (Valpa- 

 raiso) ; D.flavomaculatus, from Chuquiseca; D. xanthurus, from Maldonato, 

 at the mouth of the Rio la Plata. 



CLEKII. Blanchard (ibid. 92) has proposed a new genus Eurymetopum, 

 which comes under Clerus in the wider sense, inasmuch as the last joint of 

 the lip-palps is hatchet-shaped and the first joint of the feet greatly abbre- 

 viated, but is distinguished as a subgeuus by simple claws, a three-jointed 

 club to the feelers, the upper lip rounded in front, the forehead broad and 

 flat, the eyes prominent and the corslet long and cylindrical. It seems a 

 form peculiar to Chili. The author has given three species, E. maculatum, 

 pa liens, fulvipes, all from Valparaiso. 



Other new species of this family are, Clerus nigriventris and mimttus, from 

 Corrieutes ; C. triplagiatus (trifasciatm in the plate) and cinereopilosus, from 

 Rio Janeiro , Till us aldominalis, from Bolivia, (a Priocera, perhaps variety 

 of Pr. spinosa, F.); Enoplium terminutum and E. (Platynoptera) vitticeps, from 

 Rio, and E. olsoletum, from Bolivia ; lastly, Trichodes bizonatus, from Chili, 

 which to me, however, seems identical with Calendyma viridifasciata, Dej., 

 and, if so, belongs neither to that genus nor even to the family. 



Fischer v. W. (Bull. Mosc. 39) describes as a new species Trichodes axil- 

 litris, from Sougary. 



De Brerue (Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr, ii, 294) has enriched the genus Eurymun- 

 thus with a second species, variolatus, from Senegal. 



Suffriau (Eutom. Zeit. 27) has pointed out the difference in the parts of 

 the mouth between our two blue species of Corynetes, cyanellus, And., and 

 violaceus, L., and comes to the conclusion that the first should constitute a 

 distinct genus, intervening between Corynetes and Trichodes. This idea 

 has been previously brought forward by Stephens, who has applied to the 

 first of these forms the name Corynetes, to the other Necrobia. The rather 

 perplexed synonyms of the species referred to have been discussed by Klug 

 in his essay on this family. The name cyanellus, And., has no claim to be 

 received, as the insect is Degeer's Clerus earuleus. Suffriau is in error in 

 making it the same as Sturm's C. ciolaceus, which is not different from 

 Dermestes violaceus of Linnaeus, and is identical also with C. duili/beits, 

 Sturm ; but he seems quite correct in uniting C. nificornis, St., as a variety 

 to C. cceruleus (cyanellus, And.) 



STAPHYLINII. The German Fauna has received very valuable illustra- 

 tions in this department from Kiesenwetter's enumeration of the species 



