CAISTHARIDJ] — CURCULIONID.E. 
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Sitarides. 
Sitaris coUetis, sp. n., V. Mayet, Bull. Soc. Ent. Fr. (5) iii. p. cxcviii. 
Montpellier, parasitic on Colletes sp. n. ((/. Lichtenstein, I. c. pp. xx. 
& XXI.). 
(Edemeeid^. 
Nacerdes saundersi, sp. n., E. 0. Reed, Ent. M. M. ix. p. 208, N. Chili 
( = N. serviUii, Fairm. & Gr., nec Sol.). 
Anoncodes versicolor, sp. n., Ohevrolat. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. (5) iii. p. 205, 
Syria. 
Mecopselaphus li/coides, sp. n., Kirsch, B. E. Z. xvii. p. 4l6, Peru. 
Stenaxis vittata, sp. n., id. ibid. Peru. 
CuRCULIONlDJi. 
G. H.Horn's " Contributions to a Knowledge of the C urculionidae of 
the United States" (P. Am. Phil. Soc. xiii. No. 91, pp. 407-469) are 
intended as a commencement of a systematic study of the indigenous 
species, the genera being left to Leconte. The first part contains the 
Calandrides and Cossonides (the remainder being devoted to isolated 
genera of other groups); in which, as in all the ^' Brachpdiynques 
examined, the author finds a departure from the sexual rule, prevailing in 
most ^' Mecorhynques,'' that the $ should have 8 and the $ 7 dorsal 
abdominal segments. In Ithycerus noveboracensis, the $ has apparently 
6 segments and the $ 5 ; and the pygidium projects markedly. 
W. RoELOFS, Ann. Ent. Belg. xvi. pp. 154-193, pis, ii. & iii., com- 
mences to describe the species found in Japan by G. Lewis (except the 
Cossonides). 
Van Segvelt, CR, Ent. Belg. xvi. pp. cxlv. & cxlvi., notes various 
species new (or rare) for the Belgian fauna. 
Br achy derides. 
Cneorhinus viridimetallicus. Mots., is a Catapionus (generic characters 
amended); Roelofs, I. c. p. 155. 
Liophl(£us maroccanus, Fairm., is a Barynotus ; B. maculatus, Boh., = 
margaritaceus, Germ., var. ; Desbrochers, MT. schw. ent. Ges. iv. p. 196 
(Stierlin, ibid, note, contradicts the latter statement). Brachyderes 
quercus, Chavign., ex. typ., — pubescens^ Boh. ; id. I. c. p. 197. 
Sitones. L. Bedel, Bull. Soc. Ent. Fr. (5) iii. pp. l.-lii., indicates food 
plants of various common species, and gives differential characters for 
S. ononidis, Sharp, and S. suturalis. He mentions the interocular setae as 
assisting in diagnosis. S. punctiger, Thoms,, 1868, = puncticollis, Steph. ; 
id. I. c. p. Ixxxvii. [this identification already made by Thomson, Opusc. 
Ent. iv. p. 390, Zool. Rec. ix. p. 285 ; the synonymy is also indicated by 
the Recorder, op. cit. vii. p. 304]. S. punctiger^ WolL, 1863, = bituber- 
culatus, Mots. ; id. ibid. S. ocellatus, Kiist., has nothing to do with gemel- 
latus, Gyll., as Kraatz has stated, but also = bituberculatus, Mots.; S. 
niger, AH., is distinct from ellipticus, All. ; S. cinerascens, Fahr., = cam- 
hricus, Steph., var. ; larvae supposed to belong to S. cambricus and water- 
