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COLEOPTERA. 
Oantharidji. 
Maklin, F..W. Anmarkningar betraffande nagra forut beskrifna Oan- 
tharider. (Efv. Fin. Soc. xvii. pp. 77-83. 
The author fully redescribes Cantharis (^Epicauta) fuliginosa^ 01., p. 78, 
from Columbia, and C. (E.) violacea, Brandt & Katz., p. 81, omitted by 
Gemminger and Von Harold from their “ Oatalogus.’^ G. (E.) oapitata^ 
Cast. (1840), = philcdmata^ Klug (1825), C. aulcifrona, Chevr., = exca~ 
vata^ Klug, p. 82 (those species being given as distinct by Gemm. & v. 
H.) ; Lytta (Cantharis) bicolor, Fahr., nec Fisch., nec Schon., is renamed 
bohemani, p. 83. 
The same author. Act. Fenn. x. pp. 449 et seq., in describing various 
new species, whilst considering that the dark blue African forms may 
well be referred to Lytta, and that the yellow or brown forms from the 
. same region cannot satisfactorily be placed in Macrobasis or any other 
group, retains Cantharis for the whole, on account of the difficulty of 
defining the distinguishing characters. Cantharis gigas, 01., ? , is de- 
scribed as C. sulcata, p. 451, following Dejean’s Catalogue-name Epicauta 
sulcata, as G. gigas, 01., $ , ex. typ., = Epicauta janthina, Dej. Oat., and 
Lytta gigas. Fab., is dubious, and E. gigas, Dej., = Lytta actceon, Cas- 
teln. The species described in this and other papers by the author are 
mostly those of Dejean’s Cat., in many instances verified by examina- 
tion of typos. 
Meloe cicatricosus. Habits in captivity noticed ; a “ triungulin ” 
larva hatched from egg laid by $ , passed on to a wasp egg on some 
honey in a tube, was observed to eat the egg, and then undergo its 
first moult, immediately plunging into the honey as a larva of the 2nd 
stage ; J. Lichtenstein, OR. Ent. Belg. xviii. pp. Ixxi. & Ixxii. Cou- 
pling observed ; the $ , 15 days after, digs a hole in the ground, lays 
from 1200 to 1500 eggs in it, and re-covers the opening ; id. Bull. Soc. 
Ent. Fr. (5) v. pp. civ. & cv. Dilferences of the larva from that of 
M. proscar abacus', id. 1. c. p. cxxviii (a third species of larva found on 
Scolia hirta ; id. ibid.). The larva that comes from the triungulin is 
not like that described by Newport & Fabre, but resembles the minute 
larva that devoured the egg of the Hymenopteron j it is supposed that 
after moulting it assumes the form described by 'Newport. 
Pseudomeloe = Megetra, Lee., which is distinct from Cysteodesmus, 
Lee. ; Goetymes is the $ , and Sitaridor the $ , of the same insect ; E. 
V. Harold (quoting Horn), C. H. xiii. p. 105. 
Mylabris ledebouri, Gebl., = f estiva, 01., nec Pall. ; M. f estiva, Pall., = 
sericea, Pall. ; M.f estiva, Pall., var., = speciosa, Pall, j E. Olivier, Bull. 
Soc. Ent. Fr^ (5) v. p. civ. This view incorrect j M. f estiva, 01., nec 
Pall., = ledebouri, Gebl., which stands ; L. Bedel, 1. c. p, clxiii. 
Cantharis vesicatoria. Two forms of the larva obtained, in a some- 
what similar way to that above recorded with reference to Meloe cicatri- 
cosus ; J. Lichtenstein, CR. Ent. Belg. xviii. p. xc. The second one is 
soft, white, and of the form of the triungulin, except in wanting the 
