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to him, or somewhat doubtful, from that gentleman’s unsatisfactory diag- 
noses. Some species are added, viz., — C. violatus, 'Bengal, foveolatus, Ma- 
labar ; as well as several more exactly described, viz., — 0. Latreillei, Dej., 
from Cochin-China, probably agreeing with Hope’s species of the same 
name, which is therefore retained ; C. rutilans, Chevr., from Manilla. 
There is still another new species to be added, which Guerin (Deless. 
Jour. d’Voy. dans I’lnde, ii. p. 37) has described under the name of Camp- 
sosternus Latreillei, and which appears to be different from all the others, 
in having a fine white coat of hair, more or less thick : it was discovered 
at Pondicherry. 
Redtenbacher has described three Austrian species (Col. Aust. p. 11) : 
E. (Ampedus) fulvus is a small beetle, which difiers from Ampedus by 
its membranous appendages on the tarsal joints, so that E. (Sericosomus) 
lugens should rather belong to Ampedus. E. (Ectinus) suhceneus, ZiegL, 
appears to me properly to stand under Pristilophus. Desvignes (Ento- 
mologist, p. 326) has characterized a new British species, Elat, ruji- 
tarsus, which appears to belong to Ampedus, and to be allied to the 
E. nigrinus. 
Agrypnus grandis, Hope, is a large New Holland Elater from Port 
Essington. (Proceed. Ent, Soc. p. 48.) 
Of the Fauna of Van Diemen’s Land, the reporter has described (Arch. 
1842, i. p. 136) one new species of Lacon, six of Monocrepidius, one of 
Melanoxanthus, one of Pristilophus, three of the new genus Crepido- 
menus (vid. sup.), and also one new genus Atelopus, allied to Dolopius, 
but removed from the other genera with an arched forehead, by the 
fourth tarsal joint being provided with a membranous appendage ; con- 
taining four new species. As the name Atelopxis is already in use 
among the amphibia, it should be altered to Acroniopus. 
Rhipicerid.e. — Three new New Holland species of Rhipicera have 
been recorded by Westwood. (Proceed. Ent. Soc. 64.) Rh. attenuata, 
pumilio (from Swan Paver), and hrunnea. 
CvPHONiDiE. — The reporter has described a new species of Cyphon 
from Van Diemen’s Land, G. australis (Arch. 1842, i. p. 144). 
Lampyrid^. — Dieckhoff (Ent. Zeit. p. 117) has published his observa- 
tions on the light emitted by the species of Lampyris ; he proceeds on the 
supposition that it serves the insect as a protection against animals of 
prey. Robert (Ann. d. Sc. Nat. xviii. p. 379), relates, that he had a 
Lampyris $ in his hand, which shone so brightly that he could read small 
writing when held near it ; a was found, and, after a few moments, 
the sexes had united ; that then the light, which was at first bright, 
gradually lessened, and after half an hour was completely extinguished. 
When he cut a Ljampyris ? transversely into two pieces, the light gra- 
dually disappeared in about the same space of time, but it could be again 
called forth if the posterior parts of the body were placed near a lighted 
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