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related, which has led Dr. Leconte to adopt the oiDinion advanced 

 hy Spinola that the insect must be excluded from all other 

 families of Coleoptera, but that, as first suggested by myself, it 

 belongs to a series connecting Passandra, Catogenus and Rhysodes 

 with Calodromus and the Brenthidce, a suggestion which I subse- 

 quently modified in deference to the authority of Burmeister and 

 others. Dr. Leconte goes further than this, maintaining that it 

 is " still more isolated, and represents a fragment of a very 

 old fauna, of which, as I have already endeavoured to show, 

 Trictenotoma, Cupes, and Rhysodes * are remnants, to which, also, 

 the BrenthidcB, though numerous, and perhaps greatly modified 

 in recent geological times, might be added." — OjJ- cit., p. 216. 



A memoir on the family Pselaplddcn is given by Schaufuss, in 

 his "Nunquam Otiosus " (ii. p. 450), in which several new genera 

 and species are described. 



A monograph of the Australian species of Lycida is given in 

 the Trans. Ent. See, London, June, 1877, by Mr. C. O. Water- 

 house, containing thirty-eight species, of which twenty-four are 

 described as new. The same author has also published mono- 

 graphs of the genera Calochromus and Callirrhipis, consisting for 

 the most part of Malayan species, in the ' Cistula Entomologioa ' 

 (part xvii.) and Trans. Ent. Soc. 



Dr. Sharp has published descriptions of New Zealand Elatet'idce 

 in Ann. Nat. Hist., May and June last ; and of other New Zealand 

 beetles in the Ent. Mo. Mag. 



A memoir, also by Dr. Sharp, containing "Descriptions of some 

 New Forms of Aberrant Melolonthini from Australia, forming a 

 Distinct Sub-Tribe {Systellopides) allied to Pachypus " is pub- 

 lished in Amiali del Mus. Civic, di Sci. Nat. di Genova (vol. ix.) 

 March, 1877 ; and the same work also contains the description of 

 a new genus of DynastidcB from New Guinea, by the same writer. 



Descriptions of six new and beautiful species of exotic 

 CetoniidcB are published by Mr. Oliver Janson in the ' Cistula 

 Entomologica ' (vol. ii. part 16.) 



M.Lichtenstein has communicated to the Academie des Sciences 

 of Paris the successful result of his investigation of the various 

 larval states of the common blister beetle {Cantharis veslcatoria), 

 which agree in the main with the details which have been 



* Leconte, " Notes on the Rhysodida of the United States," Tr. Am. Ent. Soc, 

 1875, p. 163, scq. 



