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form, with membranous appendages on the middle tarsal joints, distin- 
guished by the transverse hatchet-shaped terminal joint of the palpi. 
Bl. costata; glossy black, with alternately elevated interstices of the 
punctate strias on the elytra ; 6'" long ; probably from Mexico. 
Cistela sulfuripes, Dahl, Redtenbacher (Col. Aust. p. 18), has already 
been described by Germar under the same name (Spec. ins. nov.) 
Mordellones. — Mordella promiscAm is a new species of the reporter’s 
from Van Diemen’s Land (Arch. 1842, i. p. 181). 
Salpingid^. — The reporter has remarked (1. c. p. 183), that the Euro- 
pean species of Salpingus separate into two forms : the one (Sphceriestes, 
Kirby : S. ater, picece, himaculatus, foveolatus) has the last five joints 
of the antennae imperceptibly thickened, and the margins of the pro- 
thorax simple ; the other {Salpingus, Latr., Lissodema, Curt. : S. cursor, 
dentatus) has the last three antennal joints remarkably thickened, and 
the margins of the prothorax dentated. Between these stands Salp. 
hyhridus, from Van Diemen’s Land, which agrees with the latter in the 
antennae, and with the former in the prothorax. 
Lagriari.e. — In this family might be reckoned an insect from Gum. 
Anime, which Hope figured under the name of Megalocera rubricollis 
(Guer. Mag. de Zool. Ins. pi. 88.) It is slender, with spreading serrated 
antennae with triangular joints, projecting eyes, punctate-striate elytra, 
and small and lobed penultimate tarsal joint. 
Anthicida 3. — Dr. Schmidt of Stettin has published a treatise on the 
European species of Anthicus, in the Entomol. Zeitung (p. 79, 122, 170, 
193). He divides the Anthicus, F., into three genera: Notoxus, 
Geotf., with squarish mandibles, and filiform antennae, also easily to 
be recognised by the cornuted prothorax ; Anthicus, with triangular 
mandibles, and somewhat filiform antennae; Ochthenomus, Dej., with 
triangular mandibles, and club-shaped antennae. Six species of Notoxus 
are mentioned, of which three are new : N. major, Dej., from different 
parts of the South of Europe; N. armatus, from the Tyrol, nothing 
more perhaps than a slight variety of the N, cornutus ; and N. miles, 
a good species from the Banat, chiefly differing from N. cornutus, by 
the truncated points of the elytra. 
Thirty species of Anthicus are described : among these, as new. 
No. 4. A. terminatus, Dej., from Corfu, a species varying much in 
colour, with which No. 12. A. rujicollis, is to be united as a variety ; 
No. 6. A. longicollis, from Hungary and Italy; No. 11. A. tristis, from 
the South of France ; No. 12. A. rujicollis, from the South of France and 
North of Italy (variety of No. 4. A. terminatus, Dej.) ; No. 13. A. uni- 
fasciatus, Dej., from the Tyrol, North of Italy, and South of France 
(already figured as A. fasciatus, Chevr. in Guer. Iconogr. Regn. An.); 
No. 14. A. monogrammus, Kunze, from Nice (same with A. cinctus, 
Rossi, a finis, Dej.) ; No. 15. A. sardous, Kunze, from Sardinia ; No. 16. 
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