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INSECTA^ COLEOPTEllA. 
instead of abdomen,” often used improperly in describing the upper surface 
of the posterior segments, especially in the Brachelytra, 
Alcohol ; Fuchs (B. E. Z. xv. p. 287) recommends, from experience, the 
use of a few drops of this, in preference to benzine, in the collecting-bottle, for 
destroying life. 
Instances of different species copulating are recorded by E. A. Waterhouse 
{Ceuthorhynchideus and Cceliodes), Ent. M. M. viii. p. 66; by Morley {Cre- 
pidodera)^ ibid. p. 135 ; by Dei, Bull. Ent. Ital. iii. p. 197 {Cocdnella) ; and 
by Ilochhuth, Bull. Mosc. xliv. p. 208, note (^Cocdnella and Phytonomus !). 
CiCINDELIDiE. 
Oxygmia : H. W. Bates (Tr. E. Soc. 1871, p. 378) briefly recharacterizes 
this genus, endorsing its location by Chaudoir near Odontochila. 
Cidndela hyhrida and campestris : Aronstein, Tijdschr. Ent. (2) vi. p. 150, 
supplements Heylaert’s observations on alteration in colour of these spp. by 
artificial heat. 
Cidndela mhlhergiy Fisch. : Hochhuth (Bull. Mosc. xliv. p. 180) gives 
some particulars of this insect, which he thinks a good species. 
CoUyris aptera, Lund, nec 01., is named lundi : Crotch, List, &c., p. 2. 
New species : — 
Oxygmia albitcenia and cyanopisj Bates, 1. c. p. 377, New Granada. 
Cidndela gormazi, Reed, Ent. M. M. viii. p. 76, S. Chili; C. crespignii, Bates, 
/. c. p. 379, N. Borneo; C. thibetana, Blanchard, C. R. Ixxii. p. 811, note, 
Thibet (diagn. only) ; C. turkestanica saidijtdice, Turkestan, chaudoiri, Kapal, 
Ballion, Bull. Mosc. xliii. p. 322 ; C. aberrans, p. 29, (? Megalomma') fron- 
talis, Madagascar, semipictUy Nossi-B^, p. 30, Fairmaire, Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 
(5) i. ; C. puritana, Horn, Tr. Am. Ent. Soc. 1871, p. 325, New Hampshire, 
XT. S. A. 
Megalomma uniguttatum, rugicolle^ and marginatum, Fairmaire, 1. c. 
pp. 31-33, Madagascar. 
DUtypsidera rnastersi, Macleay, Tr. Ent. Soc. N. S. W. ii. p. 80, Gayndah. 
Carabid^. 
II . W. Bates, under the heading Notes on Car abides, and 
descriptions of new species, has published many observations 
on insects of various subfamilies of this group, chiefly from 
Tropical America, in Ent. M. M. vii. & viii. during 1871. 
Notices of these will be found in their due order. 
PicciOLi, in his Catologo sinonimico e topografico dei Coleotteri della 
Toscana ” (Bull. Ent. Ital. iii. pp. 284-297), issues, with Bargagli’s help, a 
small further instalment relating to Tuscan Carabidee. 
[//] Omophronides, 
Horn, Tr. Am. Ent. Soc. 1870, pp. 70-75, tabulates and describes the 
American spp. of \^H \Omophron, stating that nitens, Chaud.,=wiV/i/Mm, Lee., 
and including, as new, robustu?n, Nova Scotia, oblilerahtm, Avizona, p. 73, ovale, 
California, p. 75. 
