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described), often noticed of late in England as Chcvrolati, 

 has been identified with Gyllenhal's Rynchcenus troglodytes^ 

 var. d. (Ent. Mo. Mag., x, p. 18). 



Our Phlceophagus CBneopiceuSy according to Mr. Wollas- 

 ton, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1873, p. 540, note, is a less typical 

 member of its genus than the various other species which 

 that careful investigator has examined; for not only does it 

 recede in outline from the latter, but it has also manifest 

 indications of a scutellum. Mr. Wollaston hints its possible 

 connexion with his new genus Pseudophlceophagus (type, 

 P, tenax, from the Azores). 



Referring to the suit of "Pinning versus Carding," re- 

 ported in Ent. Ann. 1873, p. 17, Mr. Justice Bold has 

 summed up strongly in favour of the defendant (Ent. Mo. 

 Mag., ix, p. 219). See also Wollaston, Trans. Ent. Soc. 

 1873, p. 514, note. A new method of manipulating speci- 

 mens is indicated by Dr. R. C. R. Joi dan, in Ent. Mo. Mag., 

 ix, p. 273, as follows: — "The lesser Staphylinidce might be 

 advantageously mounted" in microscope slides, with gum or 

 cement and the usual talc or glass cell-lid. In connexion 

 with specimen preparation, &c., it may interest English 

 Coleopterists to know that the entomological uses of laurel 

 leaves and phenic acid have just been discovered by our 

 enterprising GaUic neighbours. (Leprieur, Bull. Soc. Ent. 

 France, 1872, pp. xxxi andxciv; Ragonot, ibid., p. 212, &c.) 



Of works on Coleoptera recently published, the " Fauna 

 Baltica" of Dr. Seidlitz, of which a considerable portion has 

 now appeared, may interest EngUsh Entomologists, as treat- 

 ing of species either occurring or likely to occur in this 

 country. And it will also give some employment to those 

 who feel inclined to re-arrange their collections, judging 

 from the following list of families, &c. : — Carabicid^e \_sic'], 

 Dytiscidae, Gyrinid^e, Palpicornia, Heterocerida3, Paruid^e, 

 Georyssidce, Lucanidaj, Scaraba3id£e, Buprestida3,Eucnemid£e, 



