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galatheay senatoria^ chloris, signaticornis, and JaguarUa, and AcrydocepHala 
histriata^ Ohevr. The references are to plates ii. & iii. of vol. vi. 
Plectrura producta^ Lee., = spmicauda, (Escli.) Mann. : Schaufuss, 1. c. 
p. 160. 
Dorcadion : Kraatz (B. E. Z. xv. pp. 194-204) refers to the nomenclature 
&c. of the German spp., especially as to arenarium ,Scop. {pedestre, E.), and 
its varr. D. mendax and meridionale are not varr. of fidiginator^ though nava- 
ricum and monticola possibly may be varr. of meridionale : des Loges, Mitth. 
schw. ent. Ges. iii. p. 376. 
Batocerides ; v. Vollenhoven, 1. c, pp. 211-220, pi. 9, enumerates, with locali- 
ties and bibliographical references, the spp. of this gi’oup in the Leyden Mu- 
seum. Amongst others, the following observations are made by him : Batocera 
jmlverosUf Pasc., is not improbably identical with, or a local var. of, tvieneeJei, 
Kaup ; catenata, de II., ?= lineolata, Ohevr. (chinensis, Thoms.); celebiana, 
Thoms., is altered to celehensis ; stigma, Voet, albofasciata, de G., =.8-maoulata, 
F. ; and two possibly new spp. of Apriona, from Dorey and Tondano, are 
indicated and tigured (pi. 9. tigs. 4 & 5). The spine of basal joint of ant. 
tarsus in cf of armata, 01., is also figured, ib. f. 1. 
Megacriodes, Pasc. : v. Vollenhoven, 1. c. p. 110, on account of theefof any 
member of this genus being unknown, doubts its distinctness from Batocera ; 
he figures (pi. 5. figs. 11, a, ^, &; y) the thorax of M. ebenmus, and portions 
of the antennae of Megaci'iodes, Batocera, and Apriona. 
Zygocera lugubris, ’Pa3C.,=canosa, Er. : Pascoe, Ann. N. H. (4) viii. 
p. 276. 
Saperda geminata, Kl., is referred to Oopsis by Fairmaire, /. c. p. 74. 
Astynomus cBdilis: for note of the occurrence of this insect alive in Paris, 
cf. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. (4) x. Bull. p. Ixxxiii. 
Saperda popidnea ; Giraud, ibid. (5) i. p. 408, records Bpkialtes tuberm- 
latus, Fourc., Cryptus analis, and Echthrus nubeculatus, Gr. (the latter from 
Populus alba), and a new sp., E. popidneus (from P. tremula), as Ichneumons 
parasitic upon this sp. 
Saperda bivittata, the two-striped Borer particulars of economy &c. 
given, with figure, in i. Hep. Ins. Out. p. 69. 
Oberea linearis: Kiinstler (Verh. z.-b. Wien, xxi. Beih. p. 65) discusses 
injuries to cultivated plants from this sp. 
Neiu genera and species 
Madecops, Fairmaire, Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. (6) i. p. 70 {Mesosides). Allied 
to Coptops, but with wider head, long and rather slender antennoo, less-cylin- 
drical thorax, rather long elytra, which are attenuate at the apex, and conic 
mesosternum. M. ^n'uinosus, id. ibid., I. Mayotte, Comores. 
Tragon, Murray, 1. c. p. 49 (Tragocephalides). Indicated as a new genus or 
subgenus for Tragocephala signaticornis exiA. jaguar ita, Ohevr.^ 
Scotinauges, Pascoe, 1. c. p. 277 {PLebesecides). Scape short, femora linear, 
anterior portion of mesosternum with vertical edge. S. diphysis, id. ibid. 
pi. xiii. f. 4, Japan. 
Phoryctus, Gerstacker, 1. c. p. 78 (Apoinecynides). P. mucoreus, id. ibid., 
Mombas. 
jEgoprepes, Pascoe, 1. c. Forms a new subfamily, between the Hip)- 
