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founded by him. A new species of Mallodon, found on the coast of Arabia, 

 has been described under both sexes as M. arabicum by Buquet. (Rev. 

 Zool. p. 330.) Mallodon Downesii, from Fernando Po, as well as Acantho- 

 phorus Palinii, longipennis, from Sierra Leone, have been characterized by 

 Hope. (Ann. Nat. Hist. xi. p. 366.) 



Spondylis api/ormis, Escli., from Sitka, and Asemum atrum, Esch., from 

 California, have been made known provisionally by Mannerheim by the 

 diagnoses. (Bull. Mosc. p. 304.) 



Cerambycini. A work by Hope, c Observations on the Stenochoridse of 

 New Holland, with Descriptions of New Genera and Species of that Family/ 

 (which, as relates to its essential contents, has been already noticed in the 

 Report for 1841, p. 189, from the ' Proceed. Zool. Soc.'), has appeared in 

 the ' Transact. Zool. Soc.' iii. p. 187. In the plate which accompanies it 

 figures are given of Piesarthrius marginellus, Strongylurus scutellatus, Cop- 

 toptenis cretifer, Coptocercus unifasciatus, Stenochorus mbripes, Boisd., yiyas, 

 wiiguttatus, Mitchellii, trimaculatus. Some observations by M'Leay on the 

 occurrence of various species are given in a note. Stenochorus latus, Hope, 

 is found in the heart of the stem of Casucinna, St. semipunctatus, F., under 

 the bark of Eucalyptus, Meropaehys M'Leayi, in the flower of Leptospermum, 

 Uracantha triangularis, frequent at Ulladolla, on tlie coast, in flowers. 



A figure of the new genus, Zonopterus, Hope, has appeared in the ' Trans. 

 Liu. Soc.' xix, p. 110, t. 10, fig. 7.) It has the form of a Callichroma, 

 and resembles partly PacJtyteria and Nirceus, and partly Promeces, with a 

 disciform prothorax, as in Callidium. Z.flavitarsis, H. is from Sylhet. (Ib. 

 fig. 6), there is also represented Purpuricenus rubripennis, Hope, from the 

 same locality. 



Hope (Ann. Nat. Hist, xi, p. 366) has founded a new genus, Phyllarthnus, 

 nearly allied to Paristemia and Amphidesmus, but which is distinguished by 

 the antennae beyond the fourth joint being furnished with foliaceous branches, 

 by the nearly orbicular prothorax without lateral spines, &c., upon two 

 new species, Ph. africanus, and unicolor, from Guinea. From the same locality 

 are the new species, HamaticJierussiyiiaticollis, viridipen)iis,j)ilosicollis,ylabn- 

 collis ; lonthodes amabilis, Callichroma assimile, Mum, atripenne, igneicolle ; 

 Promeces carbonarim ; Euporus amabilis, chrysocollis. 



Westwood (Arcaii. Ent. pi. 64) has illustrated with a figure his genus 

 Paristemia, already noticed (Report for 1841, p. 246), and has added to the 

 former species, P.platyptera, a second, PI. apicalis. Both from Tropical Africa. 



Sturm (Catal.) has figured two new species of this group. The one, 

 Purpuricenus dalmatinus, a beautiful species allied to P. Desfontainii, might 

 perhaps demand another name, since the insect is not indigenous in Dalmatia, 

 but in Asia Minor. The other, Ozodes mexicanus, St., from Mexico, is, 

 according to Chevrolat (Rev. Zool. 1844, p. 199). Trichophorus argcntipictus, 



