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feelers, the joints of which are all consolidated except the first two, a cir- 

 cumstance which is of frequent occurrence among the American Hispa?, 

 in particular of this group, though not often to so great an extent. 



The genus Prioptera, Hope (Basiprionota, Chevr.), has received the 

 addition of a new species, Pr. icestermanni, Manuerlieim (Bull. Mosc. 

 864), from Java. 



Of Alurnus there are two new species from Columbia, A. mulatus and 

 cyaneus, Reiche. (Ann. Soc. Ent. Pr. 2, 311, pi. 11, f. 5, 6.) The enlarged 

 rim of the shards gives a peculiar aspect to the latter species. 



Kiister (Kaf. Eur.) has described a number of Chri/somela, including seve- 

 ral new species : Ckr. mridana, Dahl., from Sardinia ; mixta, Ziegl, from 

 the south of France; distincta, Dej., probably of the same country. Chr. 

 megerlei is a mere local variety of Chr. cereulis, and so probably is the Chr. 

 hcemoptem of the author. Chr. bicolor, K., from Greece and Dabnatia, is not 

 the Fabriciau species of that name (viridiceerulea, Porsk.), which is a variety 

 of Chr. regalis, Oliv., but is the same as Chr. vernalis, Brulle. The following 

 references may be added to Chr. sitlcia (Dej.), Kiist. ' Germ. Sp. Ins. 586, 

 817,' to Chr. diluta, Hffg., ' Germ. ib. 591, 827.' 



Letzner (Arbeit, u. Veraud. Schles. Gesellsch. 69) has reviewed the varie- 

 ties of Chr. sttlieis and collam, P., which occur in Silesia. Chr. perforata, 

 caschmireiisis and specul'ifera, Plicedon niyromaculatiim (differing from the rest 

 in wanting the scutel), are species from Cashmere, described byKollar and 

 Redt., (Hug. Kaschm. 557, 562). Chrys. l^-punctata, P., which belongs 

 to the genus Podontia of Dalm. (Eph. Eutom.), is enumerated by them 

 among the species of Gonioctena, with the remark that there is no material 

 difference between these genera. I have, however, observed in Gonioctena 

 (= Phytodecta, Kby.) a character peculiar to itself, a deep round cavity 

 at the outside of the upper jaws, which receives the end-joint of the jaw- 

 palps. 



The natural history of the Colaspis (Colaplms) atra (Chrysom. id. Ol. = 

 Col. barbara, P.), has been fully given by Joly (Ann. Sc. Nat. ii, 5.) This 

 species is becoming more and more diffused through the soutli of Prance : 

 both the Beetle and the Grub do considerable mischief to the fields of 

 Lucern. 



Rouget (Ann. Soc. Ent. Pr. ii, 207) has described both sexes of Crypto- 

 cephalus (H-omalopus) loreyi. The male is smaller, and has the fore feet and 

 hind shanks enlarged. The Beetle lives on the oak. 



Maunerheim (Bull. Mosc. 201) has found on willows, in Finland, a new 

 species,. Cryptocephalus furcifrons, allied to Cr. pallifrons, of a lighter blue, the 

 thorax unspotted and without impressions. 



Prom Cashmere are the new species, Clythra dispar, ornata, CoptocepAala 

 signaticollis, Cryptocephalus sannio, and tricinctits, Kollar and lledt. (Hug. 

 Kaschm. 560.) 



