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hidce. The larva of Cardiomera genm, Bassi, is described. Cf. Nouv. et 
Fails, 1875, p. xxx. 
Ari^ge and the Pyrenees. A. Lucante, Feuil. Nat. v. pp. 61, 72, 87, 
95, et seq. 
Italy. Species observed during an excursion to Monte Amiata ; P. 
Bargagli, Bull. Ent. Ital. vii. pp. 122-133 ; Catalogue, pp. 257-265. 
Russia in Europe and Asia, and the Caspian Sea. J. Faust. Hor. Ent. 
Ross. xi. pp. 163-252, describes new species, and elucidates various 
others, among the Tenebrionidce. S. Solsky, tom. cit. p. 253 et seq., com- 
mences a series of descriptive observations on the beetle-fauna of the 
Asiatic provinces of Russia. 
Sarepta. Dates of appearance of, and plants fed upon by, various 
species observed by M. Becker ; Nouv. et Paits, 1875, p iii. 
Syria. Captures by Peyron, Pet. Nouv. (1875) p. 459 ; cf. also De la 
Br5lerie, supra, p. 271. 
Algeria. E. Olivier, Bull. Soc. Ent. Fr. (5) v. pp. oxvii.-cxix. ; Le- 
prieur, G. Allard, & R. Oberthiir, 1. c. p. cxxvii. 
Tunis. Species collected by Abdul Kerim |between Bizerta and Nafta 
are described by L. Fairmaire, Ann. Mus. Genov, vii. pp. 475-540. They 
belong to the Algerian, Spanish, Sicilian, and Algerian-Sahara faunas, 
with some of more eastern origin, as Tripoli, Egypt, and even Syria. 
Between Gafsa and Nafta, the fauna is much like that of Biskra. 
Species observed in S. Morocco, chiefly at Mogador, and in the Great 
Atlas, briefly noted, with mention of habits, &c. ; a few Canarian forms 
occurred in the former locality ; T. Blackmore, Ent. M. M. xi. pp. 213- 
217. Some new species are described by H. W. Bates, and T. V. Wollas-r 
ton, in a supplement. 
Liberia. Observations on various species by C. A. Dohrn, S. E. Z. 
xxxyi. pp. 214-221, 290-296, 448-451 ; 452-456 (Yon Harold). 
Lower G uinea. 38 species (some new) collected by Yan Woerden in 
Congo, discussed by C. Ritsema, Tijdschr. Ent. xviii. pp. 121 et seq. 
A phodius rufipes is among them. 
E. Coast of Africa. Raffray’s collections in Abyssinia and Zanzibar, 
&c., briefly indicated ; Bull. Soc. Ent. Fr. (5) v. pp. Ixxxvi.-lxxxviii. 
Zanzibar. Pet. Nouv. (1875) p. 468. 
Malacca. New genera and species described by T, Kirsch, MT. Mus. 
Dresd. i. pp. 25-57. 
Kerguelen’s Island. Six apterous new species (2 new genera) collected 
by A. E. Eaton, described by C. O. Waterhouse, Ent. M. M. xii, 
pp. 54-57. 
Japan. 47 species (8 new) from Hiogo, taken by T. Lenz ; E. v. 
Harold, Abh. Yer. Brem. iv. pp. 283-296. 
New Zealand. F. P. Pascoe, Ann. N. H. (4) xvi. p. 210 et seq., in pt. i. 
of some descriptions of new genera and species, remarks on the ab- 
sence or great rarity of large and characteristic Australian genera, 
though the fauna is most nearly allied to the Australian, to which it is 
secondary or satellite. 
N. American species described by J. W. Randall in P. Bost. Soc. ii. 
(1838), and as to which great doubt has hitherto existed, are identified 
