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Meligethes ceneus. Von Fraueufeld (Verh. z.-b. Ges. Wien, xx.. pp. 236- 
236) records destruction caused to cruciferous plants by this species. 
Von IClesbnwrtter (B. E. Z. xiv. Beih. p. 104, note) objects to his Xeno- 
strongyhis arcuatus, from Middle Italy, being sunk as a synonym of the Ma- 
deiran X. Jiistrio, Woll. 
E. A. Waterhouse records capture in oak-fungus in Yorkshire of JRhizo- 
phagus cribratus in plenty (Ent. M. M. vi. p. 269). 
Hhizophagus vagce^ Wancowicz,=/J^mc^^co/^^■5, Sahib.: Ktz., B. E. Z. xiv. 
p. 231. 
BracJiylcptuSy g. n., Motschoulsky, Bull. Mosc. xlii. p. 362. Allied to 
Brachyptcrus, but with simple hooks to the tarsi. Sp. B, tinctus (Mann., 
Strongylus). 
New species : — 
Meligethes ventralis^ Baudi, 1. c. p. 60, note. Piedmont. 
Xenostrongylus ti'uncatus, v. Kiesnw. 1. c., Andalusia. 
Cyhocephaliis metaUiciis^ Baudi, 1. c. p. 61 (and var. seminulumy p. 62), Asia 
Minor. 
Cryptarcha hifasciata, Baudi, 1. c. p. 62, Cyprus. 
Bhizophagus punctiventris, Baudi, 1. c. p. 63, note, Sardinia. 
COLYDIAD^. 
V. IIeyden (B. E. Z. xiv. Beih. p. 106) refers to the geographical distribu- 
tion of Tarphius. 
Schaufuss (Nunq. Otios. p. 46) redescribes his Anommatm pusillus. 
Hiketes thoracicuSf Nepharis alata, Casteln. ; Pascoe, Pr. E. Soc. 
1870, p. V. 
The larvae of a Colydium are recorded by Gillman (Amer. Ent. & Bot. ii. 
p. 240) as boring in beech-wood. Riley notes that the borings very closely 
resemble those of Tomicas materiarius (Fitch) [on which it is to be presumed 
the Colydium is parasitic]. 
Cyprogeyiia, g. n., Baudi, B. E. Z. xiv. p. 64. Facies of Holoparamecus, but 
head small, produced in front, thorax narrower in front, and altogether duller. 
Sp. C. denticulata, sp. n., Baudi, ibid., Cyprus. 
Tarphius kiesenwettei'i, sp. n., v. Heyd. 1. c. p. 105, Serra de Gerez. 
Bothrideres inter stitialis, sp. n., v. Heyd. 1. c. p. 107, Escorial and Serra de 
Gerez. 
Monotoma sericella^ sp. n., v. Rottenberg, B. E. Z. xiv. p. 237, Sicily ; 
M. 4t-dentata, sp. n., Thomson, Opusc. Ent. fasc. iii. p. 333, and M. parallela, 
sp. n., Thoms, ibid. p. 334, Sweden. 
CUCUJIM. 
ALraphilus nasutus, Q\iQyx.,—JibulatuSj Ktz. P : v. Rottenberg, B. E. Z. xiv. 
p. 236. 
JEraphilus carpetatius, sp. n., v. Heyd., B. E. Z. xiv. Beih. p. 108, Sierra 
Guadarrama. 
Cryptophagid.®. 
Perris (Nouv. et faits div. p. ix) records the capture of Bombus montanus 
