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nerve of wings double, discoidal nerve simple. P. schaumi, ibid. pi. vii. figs. 
6-9, Corfu, parasitic on Odynerus parietum; and P. heydeni and klugi^ 
Saund. 
Paraxmos\-nus], p. 45. Branches of antennae distorted, swollen ; basal 
cubitus of 8rd joint rather prominent, rectangularly recurved; both alar nerves 
double. P. erheri, pi. vii. figs. 6 & 13-15, parasitic on Larra peregrina, and P. 
corcyricus, on Odynerus spmipes, Corfu, p. 46 ; also Xenus sphecidarum, Duf. 
(wrongly renamed sieholdi, because other species are parasitic on members of 
the Sphegida), and X. westwoodi, Templeton. 
Cantharid^e. 
Meloides. 
Meloe. Motschoulsky, Bull. Mosc. xlv. 2, p. 48, indicates and names, 
without fully describing, the following species as new : — M. strigosa, Kam- 
schatka =^violacea^ Yar.), p7'oMferico?'ms, Georgia, sctdpUcornis, Nicaragua, 
opaca, tropical America. 
Meloe cyanea, Muls., referred with some reserve to Britain : E. C. Rye, 
Ent. M. M. viii. p. 248. Further British locality for the insect mentioned, by 
C. G. Rotheram-Websdale, ibid. p. 288. Connecting links between it and 
M. proscarahceus recorded from the Isle of Man by Rye, ihid. 
Meloe maculifrons and ? macidicolliSflL\ic., = maJalis, varr. : Reitter, B. E. Z. 
xvi. p. 176. 
MeloeUjphlus, g. n., C. 0. Waterhouse, Ent. M. M. ix. p. 31. Eyeless. M. 
fuscatus, sp. n., id. I. c. p. 32, E. Peru. 
Meloe puncticollis, p. 46, Siberia, granulifei'u, p. 47, E. Siberia, spp. nn. : ^ 
Motschoulsky, /. c. ( 
Mylabrides. 
Myldbris variabilis. A pair observed digging holes in the ground, near 
Carcassonne, by Gavoy, probably for some purpose connected with oviposit- 
ing. Nouv. et Faits, p. cli. \ 
Ceracoma. Table of species : Motschoulsky, Bull. Mosc. xlv. 2, p. 49. 
Mylabris axillaris, Jlavijjemiis, brevicornisj id. /. c. p. 50, Dauria ) M. san- 
guinosa, Marseul, L'Ab. viii. p. 417, Persia : spp. nn. 
Coryna dolens, p. 417, Syria, detiticulata, p. 418, Arabia : Marseul, /. c, 
spp. nn. 
Deratus tibialis, sp. n., Motschoulsky, I. c. p. 51, Dauria. 
Rhampholyssa batesi, sp. n., Marseul, /. e. p. 416, Arabia. 
Cantharides. 
Epicauta and Lytta. New species are found in every fresh region ; each 
kind of Astragalus having its accompanying Vesicant : Horn, in Ilayden's 
Geol. Surv. of Montana, p. 384. 
Zonites. Table of species, Motschoulsky, I. c. pp. 52 & 53. 
Lydus stigmatifrons, sp. n., Marseul, /. c. p. 419, Syria. 
Zonites luteuy fuscicornis, p. 310, apicalis, bizouatay ammlafa, y>' 311: 
Macleay, Tr. Ent. Soc. N. S. W. ii., Gayndah, spp. nn. 
