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COLEOrTERA. 
placed in this family [Zool. Rec. x. p. 260]. C. seminulwn, Baudi, is 
treated as a distinct species from C. metallicus, Baudi ; C. diadematus^ 
Chevr., = festivus, Er. ; C. unicolor, Woll., = sphcerula, Wolh, ? ; C. 
atomus, Bris., = politus, Er., nec Gyll., = atomus, Germ. 
Cyhoccphalus micans, p. i,Jlaokeps, p. 8, memhranaceus, p. 11, Egypt, 
nitidissinius, p. 5, Brazil, rujifrons, p. 9, S. Europe, id. 1. o. : spp. nn. 
OORYLOPHIDJI. 
Orthoperus re-characterized, and 5 species recognized; Dorcatoma 
zusmcehusense, Beck, ? = 0. hrunnipes, Gyl. (note by Kraatz, p. 118): 
L. V. Heyden, B. E. Z. xviii. pp. 116-118, pi. i. figs. \a-Ji. Kraatz, 1. c. 
pp. 119-122, discusses 8 European species, of which 7 are considered 
German ; an insect from Upper Silesia, dubiously referred to O.punc- 
tatus, Wane., is provisionally named rogeri. 
Trichopterygid.®. 
Actinopteryx australis occurs in- New Zealand, and the sexes are very 
dissimilar in form. A. Matthews, Cist. Ent. pt. xi. p. 295. 
Actidium lineare, sp. n., id. 1. a. p. 296, Now Zealand. 
Trichopteryx inconspicua, ibid.. New Zealand, mcerens, p. 298, N. Ame- 
rica, id. 1. c. : spp. nn. 
Nossidium posthumum, sp. n., id. 1. c. p. 298, N. America. 
SCAPHJDIID^. 
Scaphium quadraticolle, sp. n., S. Solsky, Fedchenko’s Turkestan, ii. 5, 
p. 231, Sarafschan Valley. 
Histeridaj. 
Chlamydopsis douhoulayi, Westw., fig. 7, C. striatella,'WQ&tw., fig. 8, re- 
described and figured ; J. O. Westwood, Thesaurus ent. oxon., p. 68, pi. iii. 
Terapus marseuli, sp. n., id. 1. c. p. 67, pi. iii. fig. 9, Amazon district. 
Hetcerius tristriatus, sp. n., G. H. Horn, Tr. Am. Ent. Soc. v. p. 21, 
California. 
Paromaliis difficilis, sp. n., id. ibid., California. 
NlTroULID.^*]. 
I^eitter’s monograph [Zool. Rec. x. p. 260] reviewed by Kraatz, B. E. Z. 
xviii. pp. 238-240. 
Brachypterus testaceus. Boh., dark form ; Strongylus notatas, Reitt., = 
Camptodes ornatus. Mots. ; Ips chinensis, Reitt., = japonius. Mots. ; E. 
Reitter, Yerh. z.-b. Wien, xxiv. p. 510 et seq. 
Epiinea diffusa, C. Bris., is quite distinct from E. \0-guttata ; C. Bri- 
fiout de Barneville, Bull. Soc. Ent. Fr. (5) iv. p. Ixxi. 
Meligethes. Observations on British species ; E. C. Rye, Ent. Ann. 
1874, p. 60 et seq. 
