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Timarcha tenebricosa, F., Lina cenea and populi, L., and 20-punctata, 
Scop., and Gonioctena rufipes, Gyl., recorded from Japan ; J. S. Baly, 
Tr. E. Soc. 1874, p. 171 et seq. 
Timarcha. The difference in amount or position of the felting on the 
underside of the 3 first tarsal joints serves to distinguish closely allied 
species ; L. Bedel, Bull. Soc. Ent. Fr. (5) iv. p. Ixxviii. Observations on 
the Spanish species in Fairmaire’s monograph ; T. rugipmnis, Per., is 
distinct from hispanica^ H.-S., with which glohipennis^ F. & All., is iden- 
tical ; L. Perez Areas, Act. Soc. Esp. iii. pp. 103-105. T. pimelioides 
and amethy stipes, Ohevr., are not specifically identical ; T. gallceciana, 
Chevr., = gougeleti, Fairm., nec chloropus, Germ. ; A. Chevrolet, Bull. 
Soc. Ent. Fr. (5) iv. p. cxi. T. lomnicJcii, Mill., ex. typ., = rugulosa, 
H.-S. ; Puton, tom. cit. p. cclix. This synonymy independently affirmed, 
with observations on. types of other species ; L. v. Heyden, Pet. Nouv. 
vi. p. 392. Timarcha corynthia, Fairm. & AIL, = gibba, Hoppe and 
Hornsch. ; T. scortea, Germ., should not be referred to lusitanica, 111., 
there being no such species described by Illiger ; E. v. Harold. 0. H. xii. 
pp. 98 & 99. 
Xiphomela, Vogel, belongs to the Byrrhidce, near Pedilophorus ; E. v. 
Harold, C. H. xii. p. 93. It is pentamerous, and probably one of the 
Dascillidea ; F. Chapuis, Gen. Col. x. p. 418, note. 
Doryphora \^-lineata. Its progress in Canada, and general history ; 
Nat. Canad. iii. pp. 13-20. Its ravages recorded, the greatest annoyance 
being in the States north of the Ohio River ; T. Glover, Rep. Comm. 
Agric. 1872, p. 120. It still travels eastward, not a single specimen hav- 
ing been seen west of the dividing ridge (Colorado) ; the beetle seems 
quite incapable of spreading rapidly by its own instinct, and was not 
observed higher than 8000 feet ; W. L. Carpenter, in Hayden’s Ann. Rep. 
U. S. Geol. and Geogr. Survey of the Territories, 1873, p. 670. It no 
longer inspires so much dread as before, but is still extending its range 
of food plants; G. V. Riley, Rep. Ins. Mo. vi. pp. 11-16. Experiments 
made by ‘Burril,’ proving that this insect has no venomous secretion [!], 
recorded in Pet. Nouv. vi. p. 415. For general accounts, cf. P. E. Soc. 
1874, p. V. ; Bull. Soc. Ent. Fr. (5) iv. p. cxix. ; Bull. Soc. L. N. Fr., Nos. 25 
& 26 ; Sci. Goss. 1874, p. 15, figs. 17 & 18 ; G. Kraatz, B. E. Z. xviii. 
pp. 151 & 152, pi. i. fig. 2 ; and “ Scientific American,’^ xxx. pp. 306 (fig.) 
& 383, xxxi. pp. 52 (M. P. Smith) & 309 (E. S. Wicklin). Leptinotarsa 
\i)-lineata, Rogers, = multilineata, Stdl, = lO-lineata, Say, var. ; Kraatz, 
quoting Von Harold, B. E. Z. xviii. pp. 442-444, with general observa- 
tions on the synonymy of this and the allied species, and figures of L. 
juncta and 11-lineata, Stal, p. i. figs. 6 & 6. Larva of L. multilineata 
described by Von Harold, 1. c. p. 445. 
Chrysomela. The various sub-genera are retained as genera; Stdl’s 
1st division of Doryphora is named Megistomela (p. 398), and his 4th 
division is named Trichomela (p. 399), these forming sub-genera of 
Doryphora, with Doryphora proper (divisions 2, 3, 6, & 7), and Dory- 
sterna, Gu4r. (div. 5). Chapuis, Gen. Col. x. 
Chrysomela (Lithoptera) subcenea. Mots., nec Suffr., is re-named con- 
similis, p. 172, and C. cethiops, 01., nec F., re-named provincialis, p. 152 ; 
