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Corcehus nodifronS) MiuTaj’-, Aim. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 4tli ser. ii. p. 105, and C. 
{Polyonychus) sophoroides, Murray, 1. c. p. 100, Old Calabar. 
Ayrilus. Murray describes tbe following new species from Old Calabar : — 
A. iynicollis, 1. c. p. 107, pi. 8. fig. 1 ; A. honvotdoirii, 1. c. p. 108 ; A. capensisj I, c. 
p. 108 and A. saundcrsn, I c. p. 109, pi. 8. fig. 2. 
Ayrilus viridi-cccridans, Marseul, L’Abeille, v. p. 175, Beyrout. 
Melohasis dilatata, Iledtenbaclier, 1. c. p. 85, Sidney. 
Anihaxia ruyifcra, Iledtenbaclier, 1. c. p. 88, Chili. 
Anthaxia liehctica^ Stierlin, Mitth. scliw. ent. Gesellsch. ii. p. 345, Engadine 
and Monte Rosa. 
Aphanisticus marseulif Tournier, L’Abeille, v. p. 144, Egypt. 
Trachys harncvillei, Tournier, L’Abeille, v. p. 146, Algeria. 
Throscid^. 
Factopus, g. n., Leconte, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc. ii. p. 03. Allied to 
Throscus } antennae fusiform ; hind tarsi received in grooves of segments 1-3 
of abdomen. Sp. P. hornii, sp. n., Leconte, 1. c. p. 04, California. 
Throscus vcdidus and T. sericeus, sp. n., Leconte, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc. ii. 
p. 03, California. 
Throscus dohrmi, sp. n., Bethe, Stett. ent. Zeit. 1808, p. 30, Sarepta. 
EuCNEMIDAi. 
Melasis jiahcllicornis. According to Berce, the 5 never quits her gallery ; 
she places the extremity of her body at the orifice, and the male remains out- 
side during copulation. Bull. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1808, p. xlix. 
Oisocerus, g. n. (Be Bonv.), Murray, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 4th ser. ii. 
p, 103. Allied to Phleyon ) anteniuo fiabellate \ penultimate joint of tarsi 
simple. Sp. O. murrayi (Bonv.), Murray, 1. c. p. 104, pi. 8. fig. 6, Old 
Calabar. 
Pterotarsus quadrivitUdus, sp. n., Iledtenbaclier, Reise der Novara, Zool. ii. 
Col. p. 89, pi. 3. fig. 10, Rio de Janeiro. 
Galba tubercidata, sp. n., Redtenbacher, /. e. p. 90, Amboyua. 
JDendrocharis bicolor, sp. n., Redtenbacher, 1. c. p. 90, Borneo. 
Fornax {Onychodoii) nietneri, sp. n., Redtenbacher, 1. c. p. 91, Ceylon; F. 
(0.) tumidicollis, sp. n., Redt. 1. c. p. 92, Java. 
Elaterida2. 
Many species of this family from Old Calabar are enumerated and remarked 
upon by Murray, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 4th ser. ii. pp. 95-103. 
On the habits of Wire-worms, see Walsh, Bract. Entom. ii. pp. 01-02. 
G. A. Perkins (Amer. Natural, ii. pp. 422-433) gives an account of his 
observations on numerous specimens of Elater noctilucm in confinement. The 
insect is figured p. 422. 
Murray (Journ. Linn. Soc. Zool. x. pp. 74-82, pi. 1. fig.s. 1-7) describes 
and figures a luminous larva from Rio de Janeiro, the parentage of Avhich is 
uncertain. He propose.s for it the provisional name Astraidor illuminator. 
It is corneous above, and pcrgamentaceous below, dopre.ssed, and in many 
respects unlike the larvae either of the present family or of the Lampyrides; 
but in the form of the head and mouth Murray considers that it comes 
