NITIDULIDt?!]. 
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and must therefore be eliminated. Thireosoma, Chevr., belongs to the 
Trogositidce. Stelidota nigrivaria^ Fairm., = 8-maculata, Say, of which 
alternans, Er., is a var, ; Epurcea adumbrata, Mann., ? = corticina, Er., 
var. ; E. nigra, Mkln., ex. typ., = truncatella, Mann., var. ; E. convexius- 
cula, Mann., ex. typ., = cestiva, L. ; E. infuscata, Mkln., ex. typ.,- = 
immunda, Stm. ; E. vulpecula, Redt., ex. typ.^ = Haptoncus testaceus, 
Murr. ; E. incompletely Mots., ex. typ., = ohsoleta, L. ; E. parallelopipeda, 
Mots., belongs to a new genus near Trimenus (Carpophilince) ; E. angus- 
tula, Mots., nec Stm., is re-named motschulskii (p. 29) ; Nitidula p)icea, 
Boh., is 3in Axyra ; N. lateralis, White, wee Sahib., is re-named mayen- 
dorji (p. 44) ; Phenolia and Lohiopa, Er., can only be considered as sub- 
genera of Soronia ; Meligethes riihripenyiis, Reitt., cceriileus, Msh., Reitt., 
and californicus, Reitt., = ceneus, F. ; M. ventralis, Baudi, = corvinus,'EiV.\ 
31. substrigosus, Er., — subriigosus, Gyll., var. ; J/, calims, meridianus, and 
diiriis, Reitt., = maurus, Stm., varr. ; 31. natricis, Bris., = opacus, Rosenh. ; 
31. minutuSj'BYis., = distinctus, Stm. ; 3£. glauci, Kolen., = discoideus, Er. ; 
31. solitarius, Reitt., = hypocrita, Bris. ; 31. bruchi, Reitt., = punctatus, 
Bris. ; 31. carbonarius, Forst., = erythropus, G-yll., var. ; 31. politus, Mots., 
is not a 3Ieligethes. Amphicrossus discolor, Er. ; abd. segments figured, 
p. 99, fig. 2. Camptodes thoracicus, Er., wee Cast., is ve-named tra7is versus, 
p. 107 ; C. phaleratus, Er., ? = v?7tofi<.s', Er., var. ; C. difficilis, Kirsch, ? = 
turpis, K. ; C. latus, K., ? = rubens, Er. ; Aparomia, Redt., = Lioschema, 
Fairm., which has (but is not alio wed) priority. A. bifasciata, Redt., = 
(Ips) xacarillus, Thoms. A var. ^-pustulatus of Ips A-signatus, Say 
from Florida, p. 161. 
Epurcea. The same author, oj). cit. xi. (1872) pp. 1-26, pi. i. revises 
the European species, of which he recognizes 28, giving a synoptical 
table, and figuring the thoracic outline. E. diffusa, Bris., = 10-guttata, 
F., var. 
Nitidula ossiurii, K., = obscura, K. ; Omosita inversa, Lec. = N. dis- 
coidea, F. ; Nomophlceus, Lec. = Europ>s, Woll. ; Hesperobcmus testaceus, 
Mots., is a Bactridium : J. L. Leconte, P. Ac. Philad. 1873, p. 328. 
E. Reitter, op. cit. xi. (1872), pp. 27-48, pi. i. monographs Rhizo- 
phagus and its alHes, of which he constitutes a new family, Rhizophagidoi, 
forming a transition to the Trogositidce, distinguished from the Ipidoe by 
the 10-jointed antennae, of which the club is solid, round, and distinctly 
ringed at the apex, and also by the tarsi being heteromerous either in 
one sex or both sexes. Their double maxillary lobe removes them from 
the Nitidulidce. The genera so associated are Rliizopliagus, Europs, 
Woll. (with which 3Iimerna, Woll., should probably be united), and a 
new genus [the author, op. cit. xii. p. 8, remarks further on this family ; 
and, p. 140, mentions (without characterizing them) Tisipliore and 
Ilisteroschema, as two new genera to be included in it]. Rhizophagus 
punctiventris, Baudi, = bipustulatus, auctt. 
New genera and species : 
Priops, Reitter, op. cit. xii. p. 167, Brachypterides. Near Cercus, but 
with longer maxillary and incrassate labial palpi, of which the last joint 
is oval, mandibles simple at apex, longer antennae, &c. Facies of narrow 
