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Steph.] ; on synomTiiy and diagnostic characters, cf. J. Weise, B. E. Z. 
xvii. pp. 443 & 444"; H. Jekel, Col. Jek. i. p. 18. 
Homalota hasicornis, Muls., is distinct from autumnalis, Er., and both 
sexes are described, from Austria ; Kraatz, B. E. Z. xvii. p. 213. 
Alitalia conura, p. 29, Sicily, longula, p. 31, Corfu, spp. nn., H. Jekel, 
Col. Jek. i. 
Falagria sicula^ sp. n., id. I. c. p. 33, Sicily. 
Leptusa (Sipalia) lativentris, sp. n.. Sharp, An. Soc. Esp. i. p. 265, 
Reinosa. 
Thiasophila brunnicornis, sp. n., Jekel, I. c. p. 35, Corfu. 
Aleochara aurivillosa, p. 27, Malta, brachialis, p. 39, S. Wales, erecti- 
setosa, p. 41, Sicily^, id. I. c. spp. nn. 
Apteranillus convexifrons, sp. n., Fairmaire, R. Z. (3) i. p. 325, Dely- 
Ibrahim, N. Africa. 
Tachyusa cingidata, sp. n., Jekel, /. c. p. 43, Malta. 
Oxypoda quadricusjndata, sp. n., id. I. c. p. 45, Sicily. 
Homalota procedens, p. 83, assimilis, p. 84, Tyrol, E. Eppelsheim, 
S. E. Z. xxxiv. ; H. australis, Jekel, I. c. p. 47, N. S. Wales : spp. nn. 
Gyrophcena Jlavicincta, sp. n., Jekel, I. c. p. 49, N. America. 
OUgota femoralis, sp. n., C. G. Thomson, Opusc. Ent. (v.) p. 520, 
Lund. 
Tachyporides. 
Tachyporus acuductus, 'K., = ventriculus, ^aj ; J. L. Leconte, P.Ac. 
Philad. 1873, p. 327. 
Erchomus {Coproporus) gallicus, Ferris, = colchicus, Kr., found abun- 
dantly on poplar, near Sos, by Bauduer ; Fauvel, Ann. Ent. 1873, p. 94. 
Tachinus deyroUU, sp. n.. Sharp, R. Z. (3) i. p. 411, Trebizond. 
Quediides. 
Quedius dilatatus. Economy in connection with Vespa crahro very 
fully discussed by A. Rouget, who has taken the perfect insect and bred 
it from the larva in considerable numbers. Mem. Ac. Dijon (3) i. pp. 
201-229. 
Staphylinides. 
StajjJiylinus armeniacus, sp. n.. Sharp, R. Z. (3) i. p. 412, Asia Minor. 
Ocypus rhceticus, sp. n., Eppelsheim, S. E. Z. xxxiv. p. 85, Tyrol. 
Xantholinides . 
Othius angustatus, Sol., is a Philonthus^ 0. calif ornicus^ Mann., probably 
a Baptolinus, 0. pulchellus, Perr., a Metoponcus / 0. crassus and suturalis^ 
Mots., and ? piceus, Heyd., and longicornis, Thoms., = lapidicola, Kies. ; 
0. dilutiis, Mots., = myrmecophilus, Kies. ; 0. bovinus, Coq., = loivius- 
culus, steph. ; 0. brevipennis, Ktz., = melanocephalus^ Grav., var. ; Bnpto- 
linus frigidus, Duf ., and ? dimidiatus, Mots., = alternans, Gr. ; Lep>ta- 
cinus amissus^ Coq., radiosus, Peyr., = parumpunctatus^ Gyll. ; L. trian- 
gulum, berytensis, andjebusceus, Saulcy, apicalis, Kol., linearis, Grav., = 
batychrus, Gyll. ; Leptolinus sareptanus, Stierl., cephalotes, Ktz., and ? 
versicolor, Solsky, = nothus, Er. ; Xantholinus ruf collis, Luc, = collaris. 
