296 INSECTA, COLEOPTERA. 
Oxacis sericea, sp. n., id. ibid., Nevada. 
Prohosca marginata, sp. n.^ Walker, 1 . c. p. 17, Cairo. 
CURCULIONIDAS. 
PAHRiEUs (QEfv. Vet. Ak. xxviii. pp. 3-69, 197-291), in de- 
scribing the species collected by Wahlberg in CafFraria, charac- 
terizes a few new genera and many new spp., adopting some of 
SclionherPs MS. names. 
SuppRiAN (Arch. f. Nat. xxxvii. pp. 122-184) continues his Yerzeich- 
niss der von Dr. Gundlach auf der Insel Cuba gesammelten Riisselkafer,” 
from vol. xxxvi. p. 234. Some spp. alread}'^ known, and also new species, are 
described in Tychius, Anthonomus, LoncJiophorus, Otidocej)fiak/s, Toxeiites, 
Phyllotrox, Ilydronomus, Heilipus [rectius Ilipiis], Stermichus, Lixus, Smi- 
cronyx, Ilypera, Aiichonus, and Listroderes, of some of which genera the 
author discusses the characters, according to Lacordaire and Schonherr. 
Pascoe (P. L. S. xi., June 8, 1871, pp. 154-218, pis. vi.-ix.) continues his 
‘^Contributions towards a knowledge of the Curcidionidce^' (pt. ii), charac- 
terizing many new genera, and describing and figuring new spp. The same 
author, Ann. N. II. (4) viii. pp. 89-99, characterizes as new 3 genera and 
22 spp. of Australian Carcidionidce from his own collection, in pt. i. of a pro- 
posed series of similar papers, with a brief review of the literature of the 
subject. 
lliley (Canad. Ent. iii. p. 158) refers to silken cocoons spun by larvce of 
Curculionida;. 
Sitones camhricus, Steph., Apion angustatum, K., Nanophyes genicidatus, 
Aub(§, and globulus, Germ., occur on Lotus cornicidatus at Meudon ; Bedel, 
Ann. Soc. Ent. Er, (5) i. Bull. p. xlv. 
Microcerides. 
Episus tuherosus, Gerstiicker, Arch. f. Nat. xxxvii. p. 68, Urn ; E. liiero- 
glyphicus, p. 3, dorscdis, angusticollis, p. 4, cognatus, p. 5, contractus, p. G, Caf- 
fraria, EShrieus, 1. c. : spp. nn. 
Microcerus latipennis, p. 6, costalis, p. 7, fallax, p. 8, Caffraria : id. 1. c., 
spp. nn. 
Br achy derides. 
Cneorhinus ladificator, (jy\\.,—prodigus, F. ; carinirostris, e.varatus, 
Msh. : des Logos, Mitth. schw. ent. Ges. iii. p. 373. 
LiopJdccus opacus, Cheyr., ? = nnbilus, F., abraded, to which also geminatus, 
Sch., should be referred : id. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. (5) i. Bull. p. Ixxiv. 
Barynotus illcesirostris, Fiiivm..,=:squamosus, Germ.; id. Mitth. schw. ent. 
Ges. iii. p. 373. 
Sitones. Kiinstler (Verb. z.-b. Wien, xxi. Beih. p. 32) discusses injuries 
to cultivated plants from species of this genus. 
Sitones brevicollis, Schon., and Eusonms omdum. 111., are recorded as British 
by Snarp : Ent. M. M. viii. p. 83. 
Metallites laricis and geminatus, Chevr., = atomarius, 01., varr. ; viridi- 
