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Pleocomides. " • 
Pleocoma staffs, Schauf . : D. Sharp, Ent. M. M. xi. p. 206, protests 
against Leconte’s renaming this species edwardsi [Zool. Rec. xi. p. 283], 
considering that staff though neither Latin nor classical, should be re- 
tained ; and being of opinion that purity can be obtained by latinizing 
it, if required, as “ staff a ” : adjuvans, Crotch, is, moreover, available for 
the insect. [This last name should surely be adopted : “ staffa would 
be as little Latin as “ lecontus ”, a specific name proposed by Dr. Sharp 
himself, 1. c., for a Trigonurus^ in honour of Dr. Leconte. Cf. also E. v. 
Harold, C. H. xiii. p. 183. 
Trogides. 
Trox setifer, Japan, ohscurus, Hong Kong and Japan, spp. nn., 0. O* 
Waterhouse, Tr. E. Soc. 1875, p. 98. 
Clceotus sulcipennis, sp. n., E. v. Harold, Deutsche E. Z. 1875, p. 217j 
Peru. 
Liparochrus cilihoides^ sp. n., id. C. H. xiv. p. 138, N. S. Wales. 
Synarmostes puncticolUs^ p. 63, Java, haroldi, p. 64, latus^ p. 65, Singa- 
pore, hrevis^ Mysol, Philippine Islands, p. 64, cruxy p. 65, Sarawak, 
amphicyllis^ p. 66, New Guinea, D. Sharp, C. H. xiv. spp. nn. 
Glaphyrides. 
PacJiymerus variegatus, sp. n., T. Kirsch, IDeutsche E. Z. 1875, p. 290, 
Peru. 
Melolonthides. 
Hymenoplia. Observations on the European species ; H. hungarica, 
Blanch., ? = strigosa^ 111., and Blanchard confused Galsscia in N. Spain 
with Galicia in Hungary, where no Hymenoplia occurs, if. sicula^ 
Blanch., in all collections, = Triodonta pumila, Burm. ; no Hymenoplia 
was found by Rottenberg in Sicily, only T. cinctipennis, Luc., = pro- 
hoscidea, F. ; L. v. Hey den, Deutsche E. Z. 1875, pp. 377 & 378. 
Serica hrunnea in Japan; S. grisea, Mots., ? =politay Gebl., var.; C. O. 
Waterhouse, Tr. E. Soc. 1875, pp. 101 & 102. 
Mcechidius^ McL., is divisible into sect. 1, type, M. spurius, Kby., with 
simple claws, and sect. 2, type M. atratus, Burm., having a basal appen- 
dage to the claw, which is also found in Pyronota. M. macleayanus^ 
Westw., is distinct from M. sordidus, Boisd. Id. 1. c. pp. 193 & 198. 
Phytalus glaherrimus of Crotch’s Check List is incorrect, but there are 
two undetermined N. American species ; Lachnosterna sororia^ Lee., = 
rujiola, Lee. ; L. rohusta^ Lee., = crassissima, Bl. ; G. H. Horn, Tr. Am. 
Ent. Soc. V. pp. 142 & 143. 
Melolontha. Colouring matter from cockchafers ; Proc. E. Soc. 1875, 
p. iii. 
Melolontha vulgaris leaving the earth and flying in the middle of 
January at Jarnac, Charente ; H. Delamain, Bull. Soc. Ent. Fr. (5) v. 
p. xli. 
Melolontha argus^ Burm., var. n. rugulosa from Malacca ; T. Kirsch, 
MT. Mus. Dresd. i. p. 29. ' 
