682 INSECTA. 



bc-lonps to Latrcillo's Xjbiphili. See mj pnpers on th^sc two t,anera in the fourth volume ot the Transactions of 

 the Entomul. Sue. of London. 



The X.ylophili (p. 524), have been entirely revised by Dr. Eurmeister in his Handbuch der Entomologie, and a 

 great number of new genera and species described. His distribution of the Xylophili is as follows :— 

 Section 1. Head in both sexes unarmed or with a minute tubercle. 



Fainihes 1. Cycloc -phalidce (corresponding with the genera Ilexodon and Cyeloeephala. placed by 

 Latreille at the head of the Rutelidas. with numerous additiniiiil allied genera); I'. Strategidnj 

 {composed of eleven genera, chiefly described by Kirby and lluiie.) 

 Section 2. Head of the males, horned or tubercled. 



Families 3. rhileuridLe, 4. OryctidLe, 5. Dynastidui, 6. Agaocephalidfe, each being typified by the 



genus of the same name, but now divided into numerous genera and with great additions . 7. 



Amphibola, consisting of the three new anomalous genera, Pantodinus, B. Ciyptodontcs Di.j 



(Leptognathus Westw.). and Xenodorus De Breme. 



The Dynastidffi have been further illustrated mth figures m Dr. Burmeister's Genera Insectorum, whilst Latreille's 



second division (Rutelida') has been re-\ised in his Handbuch and divided into seven families— Chasmodiida-, 



Maeraspidida?, Parastasiidx (typified by Parastasia Westw. a singular Eastern genus) Rutelid;*?, Pehdnotidic, 



ChrysophoridLe, and AreOiUdie. The genera allied to Chrysophora have also been investigated by Guerm {lievue. 



Zool, 1S44), and some beautiful species figured by Sturm in bis new Catalogue of the Coleoptern. 



The genera allied to Anoplognathus have also been monographed by Dr. Bm-meister, who has divided them into 

 two families— An oplognath idle and Geniatid^ : the former consisting of four sub-families— Anoplognathi genuini, 

 riatycoeliidas, Brachysternida\ and Adorctidic ; and the latter into the LeucotliyreidEe and Geniatidte genuin^i?. 



The Melrdontbides have been carefully studied by Mutsant, who has divided them into fifteen genera divided into 

 fuur branches, namely, the Melolont.haires, Sericaires, Anomalaires, and Ilopliaires. 



Dr. Burmeister's great division, Phyllophaga, is of wider extent than that so named by Latreille, being fonned 

 of two primary groups characterized primarily by the structure of the claws of the tarsi and named Phyllophaga 

 Systellncliida and Ph Chxnochela. The first of these groups Is also di\'lded into two sections, 



A. Farinos y, Iiaving the body generally covered with scales and composed of four famiUes, 1. neterochelid;e, 



2. Gymnolomidaa. 3. Lepisiidie, and 4. Hopliadie. 



B. Metallica;. also composed of four famihes, 5. Anisopliad;e (including Anomala, Euchlora, Mimela. A'c), 



G. Rutelidte (divided as above mentioned into seven sub-families) ; 7. Anoplognathidte (divided as above 

 mentioneil), and 8. Geniatida;. 



The second group i hrenochela has not yet been published ^\y Dr. Eurmeister, but it includes the Melolonthte anil 

 other genera forming the first half of Latreille's Melolonthidi'S. 



A number of genera allied to Melolontha, collected by Mr. 0. Darwin. h;is been depcribed by Mr. Curtis in the 

 nineteenth volume of the Liun;i?-an Transactions, and others fn.im Xf w Holland by l.ir. Ern/hs'.'ii. A uimug. aph of 

 the genus Popillia is publised by Newman in the Trans^. Entoni. Soc. 



Some splendid insects of doubtful affinity, having Scarabanis longimanus for the type, have been formed by Mr. 

 Hope into a family Eucheiridce. It has been consid'red by Mv. Hope as allied to the DynastidK, by Klug and 

 Erichson to the MelolonthidaB, and by Eurmeister to the Trii'bii. Figures of both sexes of two of the most remark- 

 :^ble species (Mac Leayii and Dupontianus) with details, are giv^.n in my Cabinet of Oriental Entomology. 



The splendid section of the Melitophili has received m;iny fine additions, and the synonymy of the species des- 

 cribed by prei-ious authors, especially those contained in Gory and Percheron's monograph, h.is been thoroughly 

 sifted. The chief works to which (in addition to those noticed in our former edition) refercmce must be made, are 

 Dr. Burmeister's Handhueh der Entomolngic, to numeruus papers by Dr. Schaum i^ublished in the Annals of the 

 French Eiitomological Society, in <TL:rin;irV Zeit.schrift, and scjiarutely, and to my Arcana Entomologica, in -^vbicli 

 the G<tli;itliides have been especially illu.'^ti'ated, and many new forra.s described and figured. A number ut m-w 

 p])ecies of Melitophili have also been described by Hope and Seliaum in the Tr;ins:ictions of the Entomolog. Soc. 

 uf London. The Cremastocheilides have also been carefully illustrated iu Dr. Burmeister's Genera Insectonim, 

 and in conjunction with Dr. Schaum in Gcrraar's Zeitschrift. 



The second tribe of the Lamellicorn beetles. Lucanides Latreille, has been monographed by Eurmeister in the 

 fiftli vokime of his Handbuch, in which it is di\dded into two families, Luc;mid;e and Passalidie ; the former di^'ided 

 into seven sub-families. Sinodendrid;e, ./Esalidre, Syndesidii:;, Chiasognathida:, Lucanidte genuini, LamprimidLC, 

 :\n<\ Figulidte ; and the latter consisting of tlie single genus Passalus. The Lucanides are separated by Bui'meistcr 

 intij twenty-six genera. 



A catalogue of the Lucniide';, with disrriptinns of the new sprci<.'3 in the sjilendid eobrctinu <if Mr. Hope-, has 

 Vu'en pubhshed by that gentleman, in which a new pbm uf di^tributinn of the species composing Eui-nieister's 

 group Lucanidfe genuini has been proposed, and in which the whole of the species are retained under the old 

 generic name of Lucanus. Many species of this family have also been descrilied by Mr. Hope and myself in the 

 Liun;r;ni Transactions, and in the Transacl inn'; uf the Entomological Society of l,nnd(..n. Twu remarkable genera 

 frnm Nrw Zealand, Mitiii'li\ Hus and I k iidiuhlax have been described by Pa "ry ancl White. Two supplements to 

 the monograph on the I'assalida? has :ilso been pubhshed by M. Percberon 



The investigations of the IIETEROMERf HJS MELASOMATA (p. 5:j0 — '.■;_'). has been contitiurd by M. Solier in 

 the Annals of the French Entomologiefil Society, and iii the Memoirs of the Royal Society of Turin. A number 

 of valuable papers btive also been published by Mr. VVaterhouse in the Annals of Natural flistory, and descrip- 

 tions of many species from South America, described by Jlr. Curtis in the Liiin;can Transactions. 



T)ie Dlapsides have been reviewed liy Fischer von Waldlieim in tljc Eulletin of the Moscow Society. 



