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this account is considered to strengthen the view that the larva 
is that of Pyrophorus noctilucus. 
Vogel, Eduard. Beitrage zur Chrysomeliden-Fauna von 
Mittel- iind Siid-Africa. Nunquam Otiosus, pp,, 65-80. 
Westwood. J. O. Descriptions of twelve new exotic species of 
the Coleopterous family Pselaphidae. Tr. E. Soc. 1870, pp. 
125-132 (June). 
Eight new genera also are characterized herein, rendering a 
modification of the existing classification of the family necessary. 
Wollaston, T. Vernon. On the Coleoptera of St. Helena. 
Ann. N. H. ser. 4, v. pp. 18-37 (Jan. 1870). 
The completion of the author^s paper on the same subject, 
1. c. iv. (Zool. Rec. vi. p. 1 95) . One new genus and nine new spp. 
are characterized. 
. On additions to the Coleopterous Fauna of the Cape- 
Verde Islands. Ibid. pp. 245-251 (Apr. 1870). 
Two new spp. are described. 
General Notes. 
Bethune (Canad. Ent. ii. pp. 76-82, 89-93, 105-110, 142-145, 168-176) 
reproduces the descriptions of species from Kirby’s ^ Fauna Boreali-Ameri- 
cana,’ with a few notes. The CarahiJce are completed in this vol. 
An. DE Perrin (Pet. Noiiv. xvi. p. 61) criticises Stein’s Catalogue, espe- 
cially as to Anophthalmus and the Malachides. 
Reiohe (Nouv. et faits div. p. vi) dissents from Chaiidoir’s views upon 
certain Carahidts published in L’Ab. vi. pp. 148-160. 
Pascoe (P. L. S. X. p. 459 and note) refers to substances growing on the 
external surface of certain Curcidiomdai and of one of the Jleteromera 
(^Saraguajloccoam) recently described by him. The (locculonce on the latter 
has been pronounced by Currey to be an undoubted fungus of the genus 
Isaria ; and the insect is stated by its captor to have been taken on trees 
covered with a similar white lichen. Carruthers, on the other hand, con- 
siders the substance to be a grumous mass, with no trace of a mycological 
character (cf. Zool. Rec. vi. p. 180). 
Walsh (A.mer. Ent. & Bot. ii. p. 298) records Chramerus icoriee (Lee.), 
a Magdalinm allied to hnrhitus (Say), and Cis ? pumicatus (Mell.) as bred 
by him from fungus on the Pig-nut Hickory {Carya glahrd) in N. America. 
Extracts from a paper by Huntley, entitled “ Remarks on some of the 
Coleopterous insects which injure fruit- and other trees in the neighbour- 
hood of Wellington,” are given in Tr. N. Z. Inst. i. p. 29. 
Coleoptera supposed to be antagonistic to the Plum Curculio ” ( Conotra- 
chelm nenuphar^ are described and figured in Amer. Ent. i. pp. 34 and 35. 
De Marseul (Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 4® s^r. x. Bull. p. Ixix) refers to the 
damages caused to Brassica oleracea by Coleoptera. 
