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Acmmodera. Baudi, 1. c., describes the following new species : — A. con- 
JluenSf p. 81, Cyprus, Roumelia, and A. quadrifaria, p. 83, P Cyprus [these 
two are referred to Truqui] ; rufocinctaj p. 82, Cyprus ; placida, p. 84, despecta, 
p. 85 (no localities, hut ? Cj^prus). 
Sphenoptera mmutissima, sp. n,, Desbr. des Loges, B. E. Z. xiv. Beih. p. 119, 
Sierra Morena. 
Anthaxia quadrifoveolata, sp. n., Solsky, Hor. Ent. Ross. vii. p. 369, Siberia. 
Throscida5. 
Baudi (B. E. Z. xiv. p. 88, note) describes a var. from Sardinia of Throscus 
hrevicollis, Bonv., records T. ohtusus, Curtis, from Piedmont (p. 89, note), 
and gives, with doubt, sexual characters for T. orientalis^ Bonv., p. 89 j and 
(p. 90, note) gives male characters for Farsus unicolor ^ Latr., from Italy. 
Throscus elateroides (Redt. nec Heer) =carinifrons (Bonv.) according to 
Bethe, S. E. Z. xxxi. p. 328, who recapitulates the German spp. of the genus. 
Drapetes JlavipeSy sp. n., Baudi, 1. c. p. 87, Cyprus, 
7'hroscus shnilis, sp. n., Baudi, 1. c. p. 89, note. Piedmont. 
ElATERID/E. 
Adelocera vetusta, Wol\^.,—cavicolUs, Lee. ; Athous i-vittatus, Walk.,= Co- 
rymhites lateralis, Lee., var. ; Diacanthus semimeiallicus, Walk., tinctus, Lec.,= 
Corymhites ixripennis, Kby. : Lee., Ann. N. H. ser. 4, vi. p. 401. 
Elater satrapa, Kies., = Schiodte; E. Schiddte, 
ustus, E. : Thoms., Skand. Col. x. pp. 102 and 103. 
Bauduer (Nouv. et faits div., no. 10) records his discovery of several in- 
dividuals of Elater rttjiccps, Mills., in cells in rotten bark of oak, beneath 
white lichen (? Parmelia). 
Desbr. des Loges (L’Ab. vii.) redescribes his Cardiophorus convexithorax, 
p. 99, maculicrus, p. 100 (and var. ? helonis, from Malta), hipponensis, p. 102, 
mauritanicus [nomen prius usitatum'] and jjusillus, p. 103, setim, p. 104, 
Cryptohypnus propinquus and Athous nigerrimus, p. 106, A. sinuatocollis, 
p, 112, clepressifrons, p. 118, fallax, p. 115; describes the $ of A. casta- 
nescens, Muls. et Guill., from the Higher Alps, p, 116, and a var. of Agriotes 
sputator (L.) from Allier, which he names melanocephaliis, p. 119; redescribes 
the $ of his Agriotes attenuptus, under the name meridionalis, ibid. ; also 
redescribes his A. hreviiiscidus, p. 121, which, by its forehead being arched 
and porrect in the middle, belongs to Betarmon, Kies., in which Candeze 
has only included hishimaculatus the other species, with similarly con- 
structed foreheads, the author thinks should be excluded from Agriotes, and 
he proposes the name Metopius for the genus to contain them. 
ScHAUFUSS (Niinq. Otios. pp. 44-46) redescribes his Cardiophorus longi- 
collis (which he affirms to be specifically distinct from C. graellsi, Cand.) and 
Athous cantabricus. 
Cardiophorus farinesi sec, typ.,r=higidtatus ornatus, Cand. : 
V. Harold, C. H, vi. p. 110. 
Melanotus fascicularis, Kiist., is distinct from hrunnipes. Germ. : Kraatz, 
B. E. Z. xiv. p. 271 {sec. typ.). 
Athous niger. Under this head Thomson (Z. c. pp. 355 & 356) states that 
