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Gonocephalum angustotiun, sp. n., A, Chevrolat, Anu. Soc. Eiit. Fr. (5) 
iii. p. 204, Syria. 
Brachjesthes approximans^ p. 391, gastonis, p. 392, spp. nn., Fairmaire, 
Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. (5) iii. Souf (Algeria). 
Trachyscelides. 
Phaleria, Leach, nec Latr., is re-named Halophalerus : G. R. Crotch, 
Check List N. A. Col. p. 107. 
Diaperides. 
Hoplocephala (Neomida) striata, Montrouz., is a Platydema, and P. 
oriticum, Pasc, is apparently synonymous with it. F. Bates, Ent. M. M. 
ix. p. 204. 
Evoplus, Lee, placed by Horn in the Ulomides, has the mesocoxal 
cavities open externally, and the trochantin distinct : it must, therefore, 
be placed in this group, and is queried as distinct from Hoplocephala. 
Liodema, Horn, additionally characterized. Id. I. c. pp. 234 & 235. 
The following genus and species are contained in the 12th article of 
the late Victor Motschoulsky's ''Enumeration des nouvelles especes," &c.. 
Bull. Mosc. xlvi. ; but with no other indication of novelty. 
Basides, p. 471. No differential characters given. B. bifasciatus, 
plagiatus, p. 472, rujipiceus, ruJicolUs, p. 473, picicollis, crassicornis, 
H-maculatus, p. 474, ziczac, p. 475, East Indies, lunatus, p. 4:14, Jlavimacu- 
latus, p. 475, Natal, also Alphitophagiis Q-maculatus, Mots., and Diaperiii 
hifasciata, Say. 
Diaperis fungi, p. 466, Caucasus and Siberia. 
Hoplocephala quadricomis, p. 466, Georgia, gracilis, Ohio, ferruginea, 
East Indies, castanea, New Orleans, p. 467, rufitestacea, testacea, p. 468, 
East Indies, spadicea, p. 468, atra, p. 469, Madagascar, callistomonis, p. 469, 
Xew Holland. 
Platydema nigritum. New Orleans and Atlanta, noincam. New Holland^ 
ohlongulum, Florida, p. 470, ochraceum, p. 471, East India. 
Ceropria femorata and posticalis, p. 476, Java. 
Neomida atra, Spain, discolor, Brazil to Texas, suhqiiadrata. Central 
America, p. 477, texana, Texas, subsericea, Syria, nigrata, California, p. 478, 
flavicornis, New Orleans and Mobile, tricuspis. East Indies, p. 479, rufulay 
p. 480, Egypt, bicitspis, p. 481, Surinam. 
Pentaphyllus harbarus, p. 481, Algeria, americanus, p. 482, Georgia. 
Heterophyllus natalis, p. 482, Natal. 
Liodema, g. n., Horn, Tr. Am. Phil. Soc. xiv. (n. s.) pt. ii. (1870) 
p. 385 [omitted from Zool. Rec. viii.]. Differs from Platydema in its 
unemarginate prominent mesosternum, beneath which the prosternum is 
received, &c. Platydema Iccve, Hald. ; also L. JcirscJii, Bogota, ohydeme, 
Obydos, p. 235, horni, Santarem, falvum, Cumana, connexum, Colombia, 
serricorne, Cayenne, p. 236, F. Bates, Ent. M. M. ix. spp. nn. 
Spnloscapha, g. n., F. Bates, I. c. p. 202. With a broad, truncated, 
intercoxal process : near Scaphidema. Sp. crassicornis, sp. n., id. I. c. 
p. 203, N. S. Wales (? = Platydema thallioides, Pasc). 
Stenoscapha. g. n., id. I. c. p. 237. Differs from Liodema m its narrowly 
