THE GENERAL SUBJECT CICINDELIL)^. 
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Ponson, Bull. Soc. Ent. Fr. (5) iii. p. clxx. ; from Styria, by Kraatz, 
B. E. Z. xvii. p. 201 ; from the Grafschaft Glatz and Riesen Mountains, 
by W. Koltze, op. cit. pp. 206-210 ; from Gotha, by Kellner, op. cit. 
p. 211 ; and from the neighbourhood of Florence, by F. Piccioli, Bull. 
Ent. Ital. V. p. 52. 
Monstrosities. Rhagonycha melanura with the left antenna bifurcate 
after an incrassate 6th joint, and Carahus v/o/«ce?/s with right posterior leg- 
imperfectly developed : P. de Borre, OR. Ent. Belg. xvi. pp. xviii. & xix. 
figs. Geotrypes rernalis with aborted anterior tarsi, and the anterior 
tibiae pointed : Mehse, op. cit. p. Ixxxvi. Hydrophilus piceus with pen- 
ultimate joint of one maxillary palpus produced internally, simulating 
the apical joint: Desquin, op. cit. p. cxliv. Melolontlia vulgaris, herma- 
phrodite : Kraatz, B. E. Z. xvii. pp. 425-429, pi. i. figs. 21 & 21 &. 
Vesperus lurklus, with head abnormally elevated, the elevation perforated, 
and bearing a small 3rd eye : Kiesenwetter, op. cit. p. 435, pi. i. fig. 18. 
[See also Kraatz, supra.'] 
Notiophilus palustris, Amara trivialis, Ha7yalus oineus, and Aleochara 
cuniculorum ; varieties in the Isle of Man, possibly the effects of isolation, 
E. C. Rye, Ent. M. M. ix. p. 243. 
\ Cave-beetles. E. Abeille de Perrin, Bull. Soc. Ent. Fr. (5) iii. 
pp. xciv.-cxviii., replies to various criticisms by De la Brulerie (Zool. 
Rec, ix. p. 235). The latter continues his account of explorations of 
the grottoes of Ariege; Pet. Nouv. pp. 267 & 271. 
Observations on the typical importance of the Carahiclce and Lamelli- 
cornia, by Kiesenwetter, SB. Ges. Isis, 1873, pp. 81-83. 
List of species injurious to the chestnut-tree : E. Perris, Pet. Nouv. 
p. 270. 
Results of beating hornbeam hedges in the sunshine late in autumn 
recorded by Des Gozis, Feuill. Nat. iii. p. 134. 
Collecting. Pet. Nouv. pp. 293-316 ; Le Brun, I. c. ; Bauduer, CR. Ent. 
Belg. xvi. p. xxxviii. 
Haury's fumigator recommended by T. Kirsch for disturbing beetles 
when hiding : SB. Ges. Isis, 1873, p. 35. 
G. R. Crotch recommends sawdust, slightly alcoholized, or with a 
small quantity of carbohc acid, as packing for collecting or store- 
bottles : he also notices the practice of pouring plaster of Paris over 
cyanide of potassium in making "killing bottles." P. Bost. Soc. xv. p. 253. 
Bethune, Canad. Ent. v. pp. 96-99, 115-117, 129-132, 193-196, 210-213. 
continues his reproductions of the descriptions of species from Kirby's 
'Fauna Boreali- Americana,' with synonymic and other notes {Galerucidoi 
— Cistelidce). 
Seidlitz's 'Fauna Baltica' is reviewed by Suffrian, S. E. Z. xxxiv. 
pp. 65-69. 
ClCINDELICE. 
Tetracha euphratica : larva described by E. Mulsant & V. Mayet, Mem. 
Ac. Lyon, xix. (1871-72), pp. 314-318. 
Cicindela maura : larva described ; iid. I. c. pp. 319-322. 
Cicindela litforalis, F., var. nemoralis, 01., observed to be suddenly 
replaced by the more robust C. hyhrida, L., on the latter arriving at the 
