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and seven new species ; melanurum, prceustum, marginellum, laterale, 
mturale, from Brazil ; opacum from Cayenne and Surinam ; aterrimum 
from Mexico. 
In all 219 species, contained in the Berlin collection, have been 
minutely examined, and thirty-two of the more distinct figured at the 
end of the treatise ; fifty -nine doubtful species, or only known by 
description, are mentioned. 
Chevrolat has described a number of Clerii from South Africa (Rev. 
Zool. p. 276), which, for the most part, are not doubtful as species, 
although, perhaps, they do not generally belong to the genera to which 
he has assigned them with a query. Among seven species of Notoxus ? 
the N, (?) versicolor is a Tillus, and certainly the same with T. ( Philo- 
calus) succinctus, Kl. (vide sup.) N. (?) ohsoletus and apicalis are 
perhaps near the following, N. (?) fasciolatus, which seems to agree with 
T. ( Cymatodera ) ohsoletus, KL ; N. (?) virescens and latus, with a broad 
round head, short rounded thorax, and flat elytra, are unknown to 
me ; finally, N. (?) marmoratus is a Clerus (Cl. marmoratus, KL) ; and 
N. sobrinus perhaps is only a variety of tlie same. Clerus ? alternans, 
and Tillus ? succinctus are unknown to me, as well as the new genus 
Micropterus (hrevipennis), which in habit must resemble Aptinus. 
Nothing is said of the generic character, nor is the form of the antennae 
given. Dozocolletus ohlongus, is Clerus (Pezoporus) coarctatus, KL, 
characterized as a new genus, with the habit of Ctenostoma. 
Some new Clerii, from Port Philip, New Holland, have been described 
by Newman (Entomologist, p. 363). A new genus, Xanthocerus, cor- 
responds to Th. trogodendron. Spin. (Opilus, p. KL) Besides the CL 
fasciculatus, Schreib., the author adds his Cl. splendidus, simplex and 
pulcher, and a new species, X. idoneus. Pylus, with a thick body, and 
a protuberance in the middle of the sides of the thorax, has likewise a 
new species, P. hicinctus. Thanasimus accinctus, acerbus, confusus ; 
Opilus congruus (very like the 0. mollis), and Hydnocera confecta, 
are also new. The most of these species are found on the flowers of 
the Eucalyptus. Newman (ibid. p. 402) has added another new species, 
Pylus anthicides. 
Ptiniores. — Newman (Entomologist, p. 403) has described three new 
forms from Port Philip, in New South Wales, which he, probably incor- 
rectly, ascribes to this family ; Synercticus, with antennae moniliform, 
and the terminal joint pointed, round eyes, heart-shaped thorax, broader 
convex elytra, short legs, heteromerous tarsi ; S. heteromerus, taken on 
the flowers of the Eucalyptus. Epiteles, with large extended head, 
strongly crooked mandibles, long palpi, with the terminal joint some- 
what thickened and truncate, kidney shaped eyes, short antennae den- 
tated from the fifth joint, narrow thorax of equal breadth, elytra 
scarcely covering the abdomen, short legs, swollen thighs, and “ quasi” 
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