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of Rio Janeiro, both compared with Or. hicolor ; Lathrohium fulvipes, 
from the islands of Parana ; Pinophilus maius, Brull., from Corrientes ; 
P. cribratus, from Brazils ; P. lividipennis and dbscurus, from the islands 
of Parana. 
BUPRESTID.E. — Harris has published some information on the habits 
of North American Bupresti (Ins. of Massachus. p. 40). B. ( Chalco- 
phora ) virginica, Drury, which shows itself towards the end of May and 
in June, is like our B. mariana ; the larva lives in the wood of the 
different species of pines, and becomes very detrimental to these trees. 
B. ( Dicerca ) divaricata, Say, preys on the wild ( Prunus serotina ) and 
garden cherry, also on pear trees. The larva of the B, {Dicerca) lurida^ 
F., is more exactly described; it lives in the hickory. B. (Chryso- 
hothr.) dentipes, lives in oak stems. P. (Chr.) femorata, F., in fig 
trees, also on white oaks. B. ( Ghr.) fulvoguttata, Harr. (New Engl, 
Farmer, viii., Tachypteris Drummondi, Kirby), lives in the stems of 
the white pine. B. (Ghr.) Ilarrisii, Hentz (small glittering bluish- 
green ; the sides of thorax and the thighs, in the copper-coloured) ; 
lives as a larva in small boughs and shoots of the same tree. 
The reporter has described three new species from Van Diemen^s 
Land; Stigmodera virginea, Melohasis hypocrita, prisca (Arch. 1842, 
i. p. 135). 
Bertolini has given an ample description of the natural history of the 
Biipr. Fabricii (Nov. Comm. Acad, Scient. Bonon. v, p, 87, t. 8) ; the 
larva lives in the wood of the pear tree, and is very prejudicial, 
Eucnemides. — Nematodes strepens, Redtenbacher (Col. Aust. p. 9), is 
Thar ops melasoides, Lap., Isorhipis Lepaygei, Dej, 
Elateridjs. — In the Proceed. Zool. Soc. of Lond. (1842, p. 73), is to 
be found a notice of a paper of Hope’s, on a division of the Elateridce, 
which is defined as a peculiar family, Phyllophoridce. It contains the 
genera Phyllophorus, H. {El. gigas, F.) ; Tetralobus, Serv. (nine 
species) ; Piezophyllus, H. (two new species) ; Oxynopterus, H. {EL 
mucronatus, 01., and four new species) ; Leptophyllus, H. (a new species) ; 
Pectocera, H. (two new species). The genera are all new except Tetra- 
lobus ; but I am not able to give their essential characteristics from the 
descriptions published; and as the author himself refers us to the 
plates by W estwood, we must wait for these before entering more par- 
ticularly on this treatise. 
Germar (Zeitschr. iv. p. 43), has arranged a peculiar group out of 
those Elateridce, in which the forehead is gradually flattened anteriorly. 
The new genus, Grepidomenus, was established by the reporter in the 
Archives (1842, i. p. 140) ; it differs from the others by the third 
and fourth tarsal joints having beneath them a heart-shaped membrane. 
There are three species described, G. fulgidus, decoratus, and tceniatus, 
all from Van Diemen’s Land. Among the others with simple tarsi, in 
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