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(Keaatz, G.) Deutungen einiger Kaferartenl817 beschrieben in 
Beckys Beitragen zur baierischen Insek ten-Fauna. B. E. Z. 
xvii. pp. 181-188. 
The author endeavours to elucidate certain species described by Beck, 
op. cit.^ and hitherto not noticed or misunderstood. These are: — Psela- 
phus ruber, = Batrisus venustus, Reich. ; Cryptophagus villosus, ? = 
Mycetcea, Marsh. (C. villosus, Heer, is a Paramecosoma, and P. pilosu lum, 
Er., is identical Avith it) ; Dorcatoma zusmcehusensey ? = affinis, Sturm, 
and is prior in date ; Coccinella plagiata, = Scymnus discoideus, 111. ; C. 
decas, = bothnica, G-yll., var., d ; Galeruca articulata, ? = Graptodera 
hippophaes, Aube, or consobrina, Dufts. ; Haltica chrysopygis, = Crepido- 
dera modeeri, L. ; Dirccea dorsalis, = Dry alia fusca, GrjH- ; Elater ful- 
vipes, ? = Agriotes gallicus, Cast. ; Lixus marginatus, ? ? = Erirhinus 
saUcinus ; Phynchcenus acanthion, ? = Trachodes Mspidus, L. ; R. tereti- 
collis, = Bagous tempestivus, Hbst. 
. Beschreibungen difFormer oder sogenannter monstroser 
Kafer. Tom. cit. pp. 429-434, pi. i. 
Describes and figures deformities in the following species : — Ca.rabus 
scheidleri, prothorax divided into 2 lateral and widely separated plates ; 
C. auratus, entirely overgrown with Acari ; C. roseri, prothorax acumi- 
nate below the middle of left side, and another with basal joints of right 
antenna abbreviated ; C. sylvestris, with left antenna 3-articulate ; C. 
arvensis, with left antenna half the length of the right ; C. canceUatus, 
with left elytron abbreviate, and bearing a process ; C. gramdatus, brache- 
lytrous ; C. scheidleri, var., with right fore-leg having a supplemental 
broad femur bearing two almost normal tibiae and tarsi ; C. canceUatus, 
var., with left middle-leg bearing two incomplete supplemental limbs, 
starting from the coxa ; Calosoma investigator, with left fore-leg inverted 
and the tibia almost invisible ; Nebria gyllenliali, with the right maxillary 
palpus bearing two apical joints ; Hydaticus bilineatus, with right 
middle-leg very minute ; H. cinereus, with right hind-leg very short, and 
tarsi bi-articulate ; Geotrypes typhceus, with left side of prothorax unde- 
veloped ; Hopatrum sp., with prothorax amorphous ; Clytus liciatus, 
with right hind tibia very minute, thickened, and bearing two tarsi, in 
one of which the claw-joint is split ; Lamia fairmairii, with head per- 
forated by a thorn (the work of Enneoctonus collurio) ; Aphodius pla- 
giatus, with hard, thick filaments at apex of elytra. 
Leconte, J. L. Synonymical remarks upon North American 
Coleoptera. jP. Ac. Philad. 1873, pp. 321-336. 
The results of the author's further examination of European collec- 
tions, extending to the commencement of the Cei-ambycida'. A few new 
species are briefly diagnosed. 
MacLeay. W. " Miscellanea Entomologica.^' Tr. Ent. Soc. 
N. S. W. ii. pp. 319-370. 
Occupies the whole of part 5 of this volume, issued in 1873, and with 
the exception of an ant, relates exclusively to Coleoptera. 
