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stincfc^ and is redescribed and named mesoleius by Thomson (Skand. Col. x. 
p. 331). 
Geotrnpes matutinalis, sp. n., Baudi, 1. c. p. 70, note, Sardinia. 
Pleocomides. 
ScHAUFuss (Nnn(j. Otios. pp. 60-69) gives various particulars of the genus 
Pleocoma, Lee., and describes two new species, P. staff, 1. c. p. 62, and P. 
hirticolhs, p. 68, S. California. The specific name of the former is given with 
an evidently jocose intention, being founded on the Prussian general staff” 
of tlie ‘ Figaro.’ 
Trogides. 
Glaresis heckeri, sp. n., Solsky, Bull. Mosc. xlii. p. 463, Sarepta (?—Trox 
eversmanni, Zoubk.). 
Glapliyrides . 
ScHRETBER (B. E. Z. xiv. pp. 1-10, Taf. 1. figs. 1-6) records at some length 
his observations on the economy, and describes and figures (with details) the 
larva and pupa, of Anthypna ahdominalis (F.). 
Melolonthides . 
Desb. des Loges (L’Ab. vii. p. 98) redescribes his HopUa pilifera. 
Baudi (B. E. Z. xiv. p. 71, note) describes forms and sexes of Hoplia 
minuta (V7j.)=pidverulenta (Schm.). At p. 72 he refers to vars. of Serica 
rvgosa, Blancli., Pohjphylla fullo (L.), Anoxia oricntalis, Cast., Melolontha 
vulgaris and 31. hippocasiani, 
Ilymenoplia hifrons (Esch.), Uncolata, Blanch., cristata, Graells,=s^n^o«G 
(111.); H. lineolata, Ramb., costulata, Graells,=>7/^t</osG, Muls. ; II. miegii, 
d, GvdM[s,—fulvij)ennis, Blanch.: v. Heyden, B. E. Z. xiv. Beih. p. 180 et 
seq. 
Monotroqms staxldingeri, Schauf. The author redescribes this sp. (Nunq. 
Otios. p. 42), which he affirms to be generically distinct from Phizotrogus 
lusitanicus, Gyl., and P. angidicollis, Fairm. 
The hitherto unknown 5 of Phizotrogus hellieri, Rche., is recorded by 
Bellier from Corsica (Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 4e s^r. x. Bull. pp. iv and xxviii). 
Phizotrogus reffexus, Blanch, nec Fdh., fastidiosus, Fairm., =6ar6arMs, Luc. : 
Lucas, Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 4® sdr. ix. p. 624, note. 
The 5 of Polyphylla mauritanica, Luc., is described, from Algeria, by 
Lucas, 1. c. p. 530 : that species appears to have been accidentally omitted 
from Gemm. & v. Harold’s Cat. 
Bieck (B. E. Z. xiv. p. 182, note) demurs to Marseul’s suppression of 
Melolontha hyhrida, Charp., as a syn. of 31. papposa, 111. 
Anomala contermina, Walk., is a Lachnosterna {Trichesthes), probably tristis 
(F.), with which pilosicollis (Knoch) is synonymous ; Phizotrogus collocatus, 
Walk.,=P7m6c^M5 testaceus, Lee. ; Ancylonycha nigropicca, Walk., = 
iaxis hrevicollis, Fqq,. ] A: cofisequens (Walk.) is also a Piplotaxis A. uni- 
notata (Walk.) is a Lachnosterna ; Serica crassata, Walk., = Lee. : 
Lee., Ann. N. H. ser. 4, vi. p. 400. 
