CLERIDiE — PTINIDiE. 
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llydnocera albocinctay sp. n., id, ihid.y Texas. 
Chariessa elegans, sp. n., id, 1. c. 1870, p. 87, California. 
Corynetes rugipennis, sp. n., Ballion, Bull. Mosc. xliii. p. 853, Turkestan. 
LYMEXYLIDiE. 
Lymexylon navale. Berce (Pet. Nouv. p. 136) notes the method of oviposi* 
tion of 5 of this species, found by him in quantity at Fontainebleau. 
Lymexylon abbreviatum, ¥.,= Atractocems necydaloides, Palis., = 
mrietisis, hai^. j=zafricamis, Boh. y— frontalis, K\iig, = brevicornis, Linn.: Gerst* 
acker, 1. c. p. 57. 
pTINIDiE. 
Mulsant & Rey, in Ann. Soc. Agric. Lyon, (4) i. pp. 179-406, 
pis. i.-xiv., n)onograph the European members of their Tribu 
des Gibbicolles after their aecustomed elaborate method. The 
work is entered in the index (there being no title) as by Mulsant 
alone Tribu des Gibbicolles, pour faire suite h Phistoire des 
Coleopteres de France but the new genera and species have 
the names of Mulsant & Iley appended. 
They restrict Jledobia to pubescens, F., and dismember Ptinus into the fol- 
lowing subgenera : — Mntaphrm, p. 233, Gynopterus, p. 248, Heteroplus, 
p. 276, Ptmus proper, p. 281, Cyphoderes, p. 351. PI. i. contains an (excellent) 
outline of Iledobia pubescens ; pi. ii., Ptinomorphus imperialis ; pi. iii., Euta- 
phrus loboderus and nitidus) pi. iv., Gynopterus germanus) Heteroplus 
pusillus 5 pi. vi., Ptinus italicus, cl and $ ; pis. vii. & \iii., portions of Ptinus 
proper; pi. ix., P. perplexus) pi. x., Cyphoderes bidens, d and $; pi. xi.yEu-^ 
rostus submetallicus ; pi. xii., Niptus hololeucus and Epanlcecus ct'enatus ; 
pl. xiii., Tipnus exiguus and Mezium affine ; pi. xiv., Gibbium scotias : in all 
cases accompanied by detail. 
Desmaiiest, Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. (4) x. Bull. p. xciv, records an unknown 
Ptinus as destroying an herbarium. 
Ptinus subpilosusy Miill., is recorded as British by Sharp, Ent. M. M. viii. 
p. 83. 
Xylctinus scriceus, Moraw., =: ornatus, Germ., var. ; Ptinus ruber, Rosenh., 
sscisti, Chevr.,= spitzii, Villa: de Marseul, Nouv. etfaits, p. Ixxxii. 
Dorcaldoyojna. Kraatz, B. E. Z. xv. pp. 146-148, gives comparative cha- 
racters &c. for serra, punctidata, and JD. (Etineatoma) subglobosa, Muls. 
Ptinomorphus, g. n., Mulsant & Bey, /. c. p. 209. Characters apparently 
superficial. P. {Hedobiaf imperialis, auct., regalis, Dufts., angustatus, Bris. 
Eurostus, g. n.y iid. 1. c. p. 363. E. (P.) submetallicus, Fairm. ; frigidus, 
Boield. 
Epaulmcus, g. n., iid. 1. 6. p. 376. E. (P.) crenatus, F. 
Ptinus jjarplexus, iid. 1. c. p. 338, pl. ix. f. 1, Provence ; P. affinis, p. 341, 
Sicily, insularis, p. 342, Corsica ?, Malta, brevicrinitus, p. 359, Corsica : des 
Loges, Mitth. schw. ent. Ges. iii. : spp. nn. 
Anobium nitidulum, sp. n., Wollaston, Tr. E. Soc. 1871, p.262, Madeira. 
Ernobius microtomus, sp. n., J. Sahlberg, Not. Fenn. xi. p. 431, Lapland. 
' Dorca[doy,oma pubescens, sp. n., Schaufuss, Nunq. Ot. i. p. 159, Peru. 
