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azureus, Duft., var. n. algericus, Ralfray, R. Z. (3) i. p. 361, Algeria. C. 
soricinus, Gerst., figured ; V. d. Decken's Reisen, iii. pt. 2, pi. v. fig. 7. 
Pristomachccrus, g. n., H. W. Bates, /. c. p. 323. Facies, colours, and 
punctuation of the Chlcenii'' ; "Pedes CJilcmiorum.'' Maxillae projecting 
as slender straight shafts far beyond the tip of the long and acute 
mandibles, and hooked at apex, before which they are armed with a few 
horny teeth : exterior lobe seems simple, as in Callisfus. Type, P. we-s.si. 
sp. n., id. I. c. p. 324, Hong Kong. 
Chlcenius ahstersus, p. 247, aspericoUis, deUriolus, p. 248, callichloris, 
p. 250, C. {Eponois) cuhninatus (also China), noguchii, p. 251, ocreatus, 
p. 252, ^rfe/ec^^^s, p. 253, Japan, C. (Vertagus) spa thu lifer, p. 524l, C. cyaniceps, 
l^rostenus, p. 325, postscriptus, p. 326, China, id. I. c. ; C. xwoximus, F. 
Martinez y Saez, An. Soc. Esp. ii. p. 54, Cuenca : spp. nn. 
Oodes vicarius and j)rolixus, spp. nn.. Bates, I. c. p. 254, Hiogo. 
Lachnocrejns japonicus, sp. n., id. I. c. p. 255, Japan and China. 
Coptocarpus chaudoiri, Clarence River, riverince, Murrumbidgee, p. 329, 
nitidus, p. 330, Cape York, spp. nn., W. MacLeay, Z. c. 
Licinides. 
Licinus silphoides : larva described by Mulsant and Mayet, Mem. Ac. 
Lyon, xix. pp. 329-333. 
Diccalus iiitricatus, Chaud., = sculj^tilis, Say, northern race ; D. reflexus, 
Lee, opacus, Ferte, = ambiguus, Fer. ; Badister peltatus, Dej., oiec Pz., 
= flavipes, Lec. ; Licinus silphoides is certainly now American : J. L. 
Leconte, I. c. p. 324. 
Jiembus gigas, Japan, China, and I. Formosa ( ? = zeelandicus, Redt.), 
elongatus, China and Japan (connects ^cco^to^ewiws, Chaud., with 7?m&ws), 
spp. nn., H. W. Bates, I. c. p. 256. 
Badister pictus, p. 257, vittatus, marginellus, p. 258, Japan, spp. nn., 
id. I. c. 
Gneinacanthides. 
J. PuTZEYS, Ann. Mus. Genov. iv. pp. 307-343, revises the AustraHau 
Broscides, in accordance with the collection of Castelnau now in the 
Municipal Museum of Genoa. The following synonymy is given : — 
Mecodema rectilineatum, Putz., = howitti, Cast.; Maoria, C, = Meta- 
glymma, Bates ; Promecoderus morosus, P., = brunneicornis, Dj. ; J\ 
concolor, P., = ovicollis, C. ; P. puella, P., = neglectus, C. ; P. lucidiis, P., 
= suturalis, C. ; P. minutus, C, = rlivinoides, Guerin ; Parroa, C, P., = 
Adotela, C. 
Afecynognathus, g. n., W. MacLeay, Tr. Ent. Soc. N. S. W. ii. p. 335. 
Allied to Diodes, and considered to be as much out of place here or in 
the Stomidoi, as near Acinopus. An approach to Luperca, Cast., is 
suggested. Head and mandibles near equally the rest of the body : maxil- 
lary palpi as long as the mandibles. N. dameli, sp. n., id. I. c. p. 336, 
Cape York. 
Br i thy sternum, g. n., id. I. c. p. 366. In some respects resembles 
Parroa, Cast., but of very elongate form, with slight legs and largely 
produced sternum. JL ca.lcaratum, sp. u., id. I. c. p. 367, Peak Downs. 
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