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INSECTA, COLEOPTEllA. 
■ Ilistet' sicccicola, Thoms. : Kraatz (B. E. Z. xv. p. 192) refers to the cha- 
racters of this sp., suggesting to de Marseul the adoption of the older name 
mipressus, F., for cadaverinus, Ent. H. II. coffer, Er. : Gerst - 
ticker, Arch. f. Nat. xxxvii. p. 44. 
Pelorurus glaucopterus and a Phylloscelis, possibly referable to testudo, 
Gerst., both of excessive rarity, are recorded from Abyssinia by de Marseul, 
Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. (6) i. Bull. p. Ixvi. 
Hololepta mastersi, sp. n., Macleay, 1. c. p. 167, Gayndah. 
Platysoma subdepressum, convexiusculum, planiceps, Gayndah: id. ibid., 
spp. nn. 
Ilister marseidi, p. 839, berardi, p. 340, compressus, p. 841, des Loges, 
Mitth. schw. ent. Ges. iii., Algeria 5 II ulkii, Nebraska, pi. 1. f. 3, arizonce, 
Arizona, f. 2, p. 134, gloveri. Fort Cobb, f. 1, militans, California, f. 4, p. 135, 
Horn, 1. c. ; spp. nn. 
Epiei'ns bcccarii, sp. n., Marseul, /. c. i. p. 81, Sarawak. 
IletcBj'ins californicus, sp. n., Horn, 1. c. p. 137, pi. 1. f. 7, Sonoma, Ca- 
lifornia. 
Tribalm dories, p. 80, bomba, p. 82, Marseul, 1. c., Sarawak ; T. califor- 
nicus, Horn, 1. c. p. 137, pi. 1. f. 11, San Francisco : spp. nn. 
Saprinus cequalis and /•wJn'pes, Walker, List Col. Lord, p. 11, Arabia j bi- 
plagiatus, Bullion, Bull. Mosc. xliii. p. 330, Russia in Asia j S. gayndahensis 
and mastersi, Macleay, 1. c. p. 158, Gayndah; S. cequipunctatus, 1870, p. 140, 
ceneipunctatus, 1871, p. 833, Horn, 1. c.. San Francisco ; spp. nn. 
Plegaderus nitidus and fraternus, Horn, 1. c. 1870, p. 141, Nevada : spp. nn. 
Onthophilus lecontii, sp. n., id. 1. c. p. 138, pi. 1. f. 10, California. 
Abreeus australis, sp. n., Macleay, 1. c. p. 159, Gayndah. 
PflALACRIDiE. 
Phalaci'us brunnipes, Bris., is recorded as British by Sharp : Ent. M. M. 
viii. p. 83. 
Phalacrus cethiops, sp. n., Gerstacker, Arch. f. Nat. xxxvii. p. 44, Zanzibar. 
NlTIDULIDAi. 
Meligethes : Reitter (Verh. Ver. Briinn, ix. Sonderabdr. 
pp. 135, 6 pis.) revises the European spp., 99 in number, of 
which 23 are described as new. He separates the genus into 
3 subgenera, — 1, Meligethes-, 2, Odontogethes {M. hebes ^ow\y) ; 
3, Acanthogethes (type M. solidus) . The plates, which are very 
rougli and inartistic lithographs of outlines of the bodies of some 
spp., will be found useful, on account of their also giving the 
armature of the anterior tibiae. 
The following synonymical and other observations occur : — M. rubripes, 
Mw\b., = fulvipes, Bris.; decoloratus, Forst.,=/)awii7ws, Er., var. ; a var. of 
ceneus is described under the name californicus, p. 33, note ; a var. of viri- 
descens is named germanicus, and olivaceus, Gyll., is dubiously referred to the 
same sp. as a var. ; ventralis, Baudi,= corvinus, Er. ; substrigosus, Er.,=.s«6- 
rugosus, Gyll., var. ; exaratus and quadridens, Forst.,= serripes, Gyll. ; marrubii, 
Bris.,=na«us, Er. ; pahnatus, 1^x., = obscurus, Er., c? > 3 vars. of matwm, Stm., 
