9336 : Entomological Society. 
ATRACTOCERUS KREUSLERE. 
A. brunneo-ferrugineus; capite brevi; oculis rotundatis, prominulis, antice fere 
contiguis; prothorace quadrato, subnitido, capite latiori; elytris oblongis, intus 
sinuatis; alis obscure griseis; abdomine castaneo, nitideo; pedibus attenuatis, 
griseo-brunneis; pectore rufo-castaneo. Long. 12 lin. Hab. Gawler (Austral. 
merid.), 
To Mr. Odewahn, also of Gawler, I owe, among many rare and interesting insects, 
a curious little Brentid belonging to the genus Cyphagogus of Major Parry, almost 
identical with a species from Natal described by me two or three years ago under the | 
name of C. advena (Journ. of Entom. ii. 48). The type species is Indian, and has also 
been found by Mr. Wallace in Aru, but belongs to another category of the genus. 
T have dedicated the Australian species to Mr. Odewahn, and it may be thus charac- 
terized, merely premising that C. advena has a much larger head with a bilobed or 
emarginate muzzle, and this is almost all that distinguishes it :— 
CypHacoaus OprwaRnlil. 
C. rufo-testaceus, nitidus; capite prothorace multo angustiore, rostro integro; elytris 
prothorace angustioribus, striuto-punctatis; pedibus ut in C.advena, Hab. - 
Gawler (Austral. merid.).” 
Mr. A. R. Wallace remarked that he thought the Atractoceri were wood-borers ; 
he had always captured.them at night, at a lamp or light, and had found them to be 
rather quick flyers. 
Paper read. 
Mr. Baly read a paper intituled “ Further Descriptions of New Genera and 
Species of Phytophaga.” ‘Two new genera, Charistena and Metaxycera are esta- 
blished, both belonging to the Hispide and nearly allied to Odontota. Of Charistena, 
C. ruficollis, Fabr., is the type, and seven new species are described under the names 
of C. Lecontii (from North America), C. basalis (from the Amazons), C. Deyrollei 
(Upper Amazons, Columbia), C. bellula (Bogota), C. elegantula (New Granada), 
C. Pilatei (Teapa), C. trilineata (Yucatan). Of the genus Metaxycera, M. purpurata, 
Guér., is the type, and three new species from the Amazons are described under the ~ 
names of M. rubroguttata, M. Amazona and M. sex-pustulata. 
New Part of ‘ Transactions. 
A new part of the ‘ Transactions’ (Third Series, Vol. iii. Part 1), containing the 
first portion of Mr. Pascoe’s Longicornia Malayana, was on the table-—J. W. D. 
Dasycampa rubiginea at Oatlands Park—Mr.8. Stevens gives an interesting 
account, in the number of the ‘ Entomologist’ for November, of the occurrence of 
this rarity in a new locality: it was eaptured at sugar the first week in October. 
Sugar has been marvellously productive: during the last week or ten days.—Edward 
Newman. 
