T^NBBRIONIDiE. 
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Burmeister, H. Melanosoma Argentina. S. E. Z. xxxvi. pp. 457-500. 
Discusses 76 species from La Plata (Tentyriides — Pedinides). The 
author objects to the union of the Melanosomata and Tenehrionidce^ 
chiefly on account of the want of wings in the former. 
J. Faust, Hor. Ent. Ross. xi. pp. 162-252, in his Contributions to a 
knowledge of the Beetles of European and Asiatic Russia, including 
the coasts of the Caspian, redescribes, compares, and criticizes various 
little-known species of ZopTiosis^ Arthrodeis, Capnisa, Dcelognatha^ 
Colposcelis^ Alcinoe^ Calyptopsis, Psammocryptus^ Oogaster, Dichillus, 
Lachnogya^ Sternodes, Trigonoscelis, Lasiostola, Ocnera, PacJiyscelis^ 
Pimelia, Blaps, Prosodes, Dila, Crypticus^ Heterophylus, Penthicus^ Ama- 
rantha, Platydema^ and Alphitophagus. Some new species are described. 
Zophosides» 
Zophosis puncticepSf sp. n., F. Baudi, Ann. Mus. Genov, vi. p. 90, 
Persia. 
Erodiides. 
Leptonychus convexiventris^ sp. n., L. Fairmaire, Ann. Mus. Genov, vii. 
p. 517, note, Algerian Sahara. 
Piestognathus asperipennisy sp. n., id. 1. c. p. 516, Nafta (?= P. donei^ 
, Luc. ; the genus is certainly not distinct from Leptonychus). 
Erodius externus, sp. n., id. Pet. Nouv. (1875) p. 543, Mogador. 
Arthrodeis erodioides^ sp. n., id. ihid.^ Mogador. 
Adesmiides. 
General observations, especially on South African species. Adesmia 
ehurnea, Pasc., is a Stenocara \ Metriopus nassatus, Er., is an Adesmia. A. 
reticularis, Gemm. (reticulata, Gerst.), $ , from Mozambique, is specifi- 
cally distinct from the ^,and is named gerstmcheri, p. 20; A. conver- 
gens, Walker, ? = monilis, Klg. (duhia, Sol.), var. ; A. concisa. Walk., 
? = longipes, F. ; A. audouini, Sol., ex. typ., = lacunosa, Klug ; A. 
oUvieri, Rche., = ulcerosa, Klg. ; A. parallela. Mill., ? ? = montana^ 
Klug, var. ; A. spinifera. Perch., = Stenocara longipes, 01. ; A. procera. 
Mill., == anthracina, Klug ; A. insignis. Mill., = dilatata, Klug ; A. per- 
plexa, Schaum, = reticulata, Sol., nec Klug (Klug’s insect being a small 
form of anthracina, Klg.) ; Pimelia araneipes 01., ? = Stenocara conifera, 
Sol., which, with S. loevicolUs and fdbricii, Sol., and Pimelia spinifera. 
Perch., = St. longipes, 01. (Gemminger’s name herbsti being rejected, 
as Pimelia longipes, F., is a ivMQ Pimelia) ; S. miliaris, Er., = gracilipes, 
Sol., which is from Angola; S. winthemi sioA honellii, Sol., = morhillosa, 
F., varr., and a var. n. duhia is described from the Cape of Good Hope, 
p. 29 ; Pimelia Q-lineata, Hbst., = S. dentata, F., $ ; S. cavifrons, Sol., 
. = serrata, F. ; Metriopus seems of doubtful generic value. Haag- 
Rutenberg, Beitrage z. Kennt. der Tenebr., pp. 3-41. 
Adesmia pulcherrima, Sol., var. n. polita, and A. metallica, Kl., var. n. 
syriaca, from Syria ; F. Baudi, Ann. Mus. Genov, vi. p. 95 (and Deutsche 
E. Z. 1875, p. 30, note). 
Adesmia bicolor, p. 7, Congo, unguicularis, p. 7, paiva and varr. con- 
