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venustus, nigromaculatm, Silbermanni, k-notatus, zebra, albofasciatm, nitidus. 

 Phonius and Derostenus are given as new genera ; the former, however, is 

 properly identical with Cleronomus, Kl. ; the latter, which the author is in- 

 clined to place with Eiirypus (which is not one of the Clerii at all,) accord- 

 ing to the characters given by him, belongs to the form of Till us with 

 simply toothed claws, and can scarcely be said to differ from Cleronomus. 



Mannerheim (Bull. Mosc. p. 248) describes a new species, Clerus eximius, 

 which was caught in a ship that had sailed from California, and probably 

 belonged to that country. 



Lucas reared in Paris, out of brushwood from Algiers, Opilus dorsalis 

 (Notox. id. Dej., hitherto known ouly as from Senegal,) and Cylidrus agilis, 

 Luc. (Ann. d. 1. Soc. Eut. d. Pr. 2 ser. i, 24.) The former may probably 

 be Notox. diniiiliitfiis, Lap., the latter appears to be nothing else than Cy- 

 lidrus albofasciatm ; and, in fact, the variety with black face, figured by 

 Cha.rpen.tier. 



Suffrian has made known (Eut. Zeit. s. 123) that Cylidrus albofasciatm 

 (Tillus id., Charp., St.) has been, lately, again found in Germany, by the 

 Rev. Pastor Schmitt, in a pine wood, near Mayence. 



PTINIORES. Schilling (Arb. u. Veriind. d. Schles. Gesellsch. Yr. I. 1843, 

 p. 175) has obtained from the rock-salt mines of Wieliczka, in Galicia, frag- 

 ments of salt with Coleoptera, which proved to be Ptini. The author regards 

 them as a new species, which he names Ptinus salinus. We have long since 

 received rock salt from the same locality with Coleoptera, which were nothing 

 but Pt. crenatus, P., and which probably inhabited, with their larva, not the 

 woodwork of the mines, but the human excrements. 



Mannerheim (Bull. Mosc. p. 93) found in Piuland two new species of 

 Anobium; the one, A. excisum, allied to A. denticolle, Pz,, the other, A. ex- 

 planatum, approaching A. molle. 



The history of the metamorphosis of Xyletinus hed-era, Duf. (kevis, Latr., 

 Cardui, Dej.) has been detailed by Leon Dufour (Aun. d. 1. Soc. Eut. d. Pr., 

 2 ser. i, p. 321). The larva inhabits dry ivy branches. 



Klingelhofer (Ent. Zeit. s. 86) has communicated his observations with 

 respect to the occurrence of Apate varia. Lucas (Anu. d. 1. Soc. Eut. d. 

 Pr. 2 ser. i, p. 25) has reared out of brushwood three Algerian species, which 

 he describes as new : A. rufiventris, nigriventris, humeralis. The last occurs 

 also in the South of Europe, and is enumerated under the same name in 

 Dejeaii's catalogue ; the second is figured in Olivier's Eutom. as Bostrichus 

 capudnus, and is also confounded with it in the text, but it is neither a 

 variety of A. capucina, nor an independent species, but a variety of A. 

 luctuosa. 



SILPHAXES. Klingelhofer (Ent. Zeit. s. SS) communicates the interesting 

 observation that Necrophorus germanicits attacks and drags away the living 

 Geotrupes stercorarius, and Dr. Schmidt has confirmed the fact. I also have 



