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Diaperides. 
Gemminger (0. H. vi. p. Ill) withdraws his alteration oi Platydema picipes 
(Cast, et Brulld) into vicinum^ as Say’s picipes is a Vlialeria. lie makes the 
following further changes : — Encephalus (Breme nec Westw.) to Encaraj 
p. 124; Platydema histrio (Ex. nec Oast & Br.) to histrionicum) P. macu- 
losum (Thoms, nec Oast. & Br.) to macularium ; P. variegatum (lOug nec 
Cast. & Br.) to variipenne (p. 122). 
Platpdema pallens^ Lap., is certainly, and P. 4^-maculata^ P. cyanea^ Koplo- 
cephala chalyhea and II . coUaris, Lap., are most probably to be withdrawn 
from the list of N. American spp. ; the first of them is S. American: Lecontes 
Ann. N. II. ser. 4, vi. p. 404. 
V. Rottenberg (B. E. Z. xiv. p. 252, t. ii. f. 8) redescribes and figures 
Halonomus stibplumbeusj Fairm., from Sicily. 
Ulomides. 
JJloma fei'ruginea (Montr. me Say) is changed to ferruyinis : Gemminger, 
C. II. vi. p. 122. 
Helaides. 
Saragiis carinahtS) De Br., and possibly S. silphoides, De = simplex 
(Hope) : Pascoe, Ann. N. II. ser. 4, v. p. 102. 
Plerohelceus arcanus, sp. n., Pascoe, 1. c. p. 98, and P. asellus, sp. n., PasQ, 
ibid. p. 99, Queensland. 
Heleeus niastersi, sp. n., Pascoe, ibid., W. Australia (Salt River) ^ 
Saragus. Pascoe, 1. c., describes the following new spp. : — S. Jloccosus,, 
p. 100, Queensland [I'Me suprci, p. 263, as to fungoid growth on this sp.] ; 
S. patelliformis, ibid., W. Austr. ; S. incisus, N. S. Wales, and S. asperipes, 
S. Austr., p. 101 ; S. conformatus, p. 102, W. Austr., 
Tenebrionides. 
Iphthimus se7'vilis, I. sereator, and I, subligatus, 'WaXk.,r=serratus (Mann.), 
type and var. : Lee., Ann. N. IT. ser. 4, vi. p. 401. 
Exerestus, g. n., F. Bates, Ent. M. M. vi. p. 268. No long hook to inner 
lobe of max. ; cheeks enormously extended in length, epistoma declivous, 
eyes small and narrow. Allied to Zophobas. Sp. E.jansonii, sp. n., F. Bates, 
1. c. p. 269, pi. ii. figs. 1, la, Nicaragua. 
Ilipalmus, g. n., F. Bates, 1. c. p. 269. Also allied to Zophobas, but with 
prost. process much more strongly produced and pointed behind, and meso- 
sternum subhorizontal. Sp. PL. (Tenebrio) costatus (Guerin), pi. ii. fig. 2. 
Dilamus \^=Boromorphus, Wollast.] congener, sp. n., v. Rottenberg, 
B. E. Z. xiv. p. 250, Algiers, Spain. 
Zophobas concolor, sp. n., Wollaston, Ann. N. H. ser. 4, v. p. 33, St. Helena 
\?=IIelops niorio, F., teste atict.'\. 
Tenebrio paivee, sp. n., Wollast. 1. c. v. p. 249, Fogo, C.-Verdes. 
Cnodalonides. 
Tarpela, g. n., F. Bates, 1. c. p. 272. Allied to Nautes, Pasc., but with 
the mesost. declivous and broadly excavated in front, and the prost. 
bent down behind the ant. coxae. Sp. T. brownii, sp. n., F. Bates, ibid. 
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