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Mycetophagid^. 
Mynnecoxenas latrklioides, sp. n., Crotch, Tr. Am. Ent. Soc. iv. p. 363, 
United States. 
Litargus 4i-maculatus^ sp. n., Kirsch, B. E. Z. xvii. p. 151, Peru. 
ThOEICTIDJi]. 
TJiorictus fairmairii, sp. n., Raffray, R. Z. (3) i. p. 369, pi. xvi. fig. 5, 
Boghari. 
Dermestid^. 
Dermestes lardarius at Canterbury, New Zealand ; C.M.Wakefield, 
Tr. N. Z. Inst. vi. p. 153 : in America (larvEe, &c., described and figured) ; 
W. Saunders, Canad. Ent. v. p. 171. 
Cryptorhopalum heydeni^ sp. n., Kirsch, I. c. p. 152, Peru. 
Byrrhus tuscanus^ Dohrn, = aareivittatus, Rche. ; C. A. Dohrn, S, E. Z. 
xxxiv. p. 321. 
Chelonarium. Kirsch, I. c. p. 152, corrects some of Lacordaire's characters 
(antennae, prothoracic furrows, and metasternal projection). 
Dendrodipnis, g. n., T. V. Wollaston, Ent. M. M. x. p. 33. Doubtfully 
distinct from Nosodendron ; body not fasciculated ; all the tarsi received 
in the dilated tibiae ; club abruptly 3- jointed, the joint preceding it narrow 
and lenticular. D. ccenosus, sp. n., id. I c. p. 34, Japan. 
Chelonarium emys, sp. n., Kirsch, 1. c. p. 339, Peru. 
Geoeyssid^. 
Mulsant, Ann. Soc. Agric. Lyon (4) iv. (1871), pp. 61-78, pi. i., under 
the title ' Tribu des Improsternes,' revises the French species. 
Georyasus siculus^ sp. n., Ragusa, Bull. Ent. Ital. v. p. 233, Palermo. 
Parnid^. 
Mulsant, /. c. pp. 137-176, pi. ii., under the title ' Tribu des Diversi- 
cornes,' revises the French species of Potamophilus^ Potaminm [as usual, 
written Pomatinus'], and Parnus. 
Parnua striatipunctatus, Heer, pilosellua^ Er., and striatellus, Fairm., 
have lO-jointed antennae, of which the club occupies 7 joints : all others 
have an 8-jointed club, and 11 joints in all. C. Brisout, Bull. Soc. 
Ent. Fr. (5) iii. p. cviii. 
Mulsant, 1. c. p. 79-135, pis. i. & ii., under the title ' Tribu des Unci- 
ft res,' revises the French species of Elmides. 
Riolus, g. n., Mulsant (& Rey), 1. c. p. 107. Pro thorax not laterally 
keeled. Elrnis ruprem, subviolaceufi, and nitens^ MiilL, and sodalis, Er. 
Esolm, g, n.,iid. 1. c. p. 114. Differs from Lareynia ( - Elmis ccneus 
}]iid allies) in its non-sulcate frons, from Elmis in its elevated 7th 
