iSOOLoGiCAL LITERATUUE. 
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tatm (Escli.) = hexaphyllus (Boisd.) ; M. macloayi, sp. n., 1. c. p, 20, New 
Holland. 
Pharochilus (/. c. p. 20) : P. dilatatus (Dalm.) = cnnistriits (Boisd.) = 
cJievrolatii (rcrcli.), P. puUtus (K\\\^)^dikitidus (Perch.). 
Eriocnemis (/. c, p. 21) : P. tridens (Wied) = lateriscidptus (Perty) = 
Ocythoe tridens (Cast.), P. mohwcanus (Giidr.), P, consperyus (Boisd.), P, 
mistralis (Boisd.), and six now species, all Malasian or Australian. 
Aceraius (1. c. p. 26) : P. yrcmdis (Bimi;i.) = emaryinatus (Perch.), P. etnar- 
ginatus (Web.) = (Wied) == 2 nlifer (Perch.), P. cancrus (Perch.), 
P. neelgheriensis (Perch.), P. navicidator (Perch.), and eight new species, 
all Asiatic and Malasian. 
Proctdus (1. 0 . iv. p. 8) : P. goryi (Melly), P. opacipennis (Thoms.), P. 
mniszechii, Kaup, I, c. p. W.-=‘ goryi (Thoms.). 
Procid(jtis (/. c. p. 13) : P. keros (Triiq^.), P. hrcvis (Truq.), P. hirtus 
(Truq.), and five new species. 
Pussedus : bicornis (Truq.) reticornis (Burm.), tropicus (Perch.) = subcor-* 
(Hope), eclipticus (Truq.), laticornus (Truq.), corticicola (Truq.), 
furcilabrus (Esch.), assimilis (Weh.)^ semicylindraceus (Esch.), cephalotes 
((deYY.)-=-sinatus (Esch.), platyrhinus (Hope) = (Burm.), transversus 
(J)sdm.)=trituberculatus ('Eisch.)=intennedius and bifoveicollis (Dup.), striato- 
punctatus (Perch.), zodiacits (Truq.), cuspuhtus (Truq.), distinctus (Web.), 
and three new. species, 
CoiiNELius publishes some observations on the natural history of Lucanus 
cervus from Hauber (Stett. ent. Zeit. 1808, pp. 24-26). 
M‘Lachlan notices the occurrence of specimens of Lucanus cervus in co- 
coons in the earth (Proc. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1868, p. ix). His statement is con- 
firmed by Eaton and Janson, 
Sinodendron cylindricum, T. A, Chapman notices the habits of this species 
during oviposition. Ent. M. Mag. v. pp. 139-141. 
Passalus nikobaricus, sp. n., Iledtenbacher, Beiso der Noyara, Zool. ii, Col. 
p. 40, Saml)oloiig. 
Odontolubis incequidis, sp. il., Kaup, Col. llefto, iv, p. 77, and 0. gracilis^ 
sp. n., Kaup, ibid., from the island of Nias. 
ScARADiEID42, 
Coprides, 
Hauolb (Col. Hefte, iii. pp. 94-95) remarks as follows upon some of the 
Species of this group described by Iledtenbacher in the Coleoptera of the 
‘ Novara’s’ voyage \-^Ch(xridiiim platymeruni (Iledt.) = se<6fc«6'n«i (Blanch.), 
of which also C. foveicolle (Redt.) is the $ j Onthopkagus ferox (Erichs. MS.) 
is described under the same name by Harold j C. quadripunctatus (R.) = 
corpulentus (H.) ; C. ornatus (Ji.)=. thoracicus (Dej.)j C. lamproderes (R.) = 
compactus (H.) ; Canthon cyanopterus (B?) — ^-inaculatus (Cast.); Copris 
anceus (Oliv.) is not a variety of C. lunaris. 
Coqms mormon (Ljungh.) = ephialtes (Mann.), and belongs to the 
genus Pinotus (Erichs.) : Harold, Stett. ent. Zeit. 1868, p. 119. The (5' = (7. 
sexdentatus (Kirby, MS.), C. serricollis (Germ. MS.), C. nasuta (Hej.), and C 
exsertus (Sturm, Cat.). The $ = C. protensa (Perty), C. rugifrons (Bej.), and 
C. tkersites (Germ. MS.). 
Bates remarks (Col, Hefte, iv. p. 87) that Scarabceus gigas (Oliv,) is quite 
