CURCULIONIDiE. 
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Desbr. des Loges (B. E. Z. xiv. Beih. p. 160) redescribes his Apion hey- 
dmii under the name cantahricum (cf. Z. Rec. 1869, p. 276). 
Apion. Desb. des Loges (Mittheil. schweiz. ent. Ges. iii.) describes the 
following spp. : — A. curtipenne (no locality given) and russicuni, Sarepta, 
p. 179 j mterrupto-striatuni, p. 180, Sarepta j stierlini (no loc. given), p. 181 ; 
rhomhoidale, p. 182, Austria ; suhglabrum, p. 183, Carinthia ; rohustirostre, 
p. 184, Algiers; taljya,^. 185, Sarepta; diversum, p. 186, Corsica; coman- 
guineuni, p, 187, Rhenish Bavaria ; lethierryi, p, 188, Batna ; uhagonis, p. 196, 
Bilbao ; insolitum, p. 196, N. France; distincticolle,^\imn, and pedemontanuniy 
Piedmont, p. 197 ; elongatissimuyn, p. 198, Madrid ; zuheri and suhconicicolle, 
p. 109, mdf rater, p. 200, Sarepta; eegypliacum, Egypt, and caviceps, Russia, 
p. 201; kirschi, p. 202, Egypt; neapolUanum, Abruzzi, and curtidum, S. 
France, p. 203 ; kiesemoetteri, p. 204, Hungary ; laticeps, p. 205, Russia. 
Apion parens, sp. n., Desb. des L., B. E.Z. xiv. Beih. p. 161, Ointra; A. 
revelieri, ap. n., Perris, L’Ab. vii. p, 24, Corsica ; A. nigrosparsum, sp. n., 
SufFrian (Chevr.), Arch. f. Nat.;,xxxvi. p. 2.30, Cuba. 
Attelabides. 
Atlelahusjekelii, sp. n., Kirsch, B. E. Z. xiv. p. 371, Bogota ; A. foveipermis, 
SufFrian, 1. c. p. 228, Cuba. 
TUiinomacerides. 
Rhynchites muUipunctatm, Bach, = flrZ/mnce (Payk.), Kirsch, B. E. Z. xiv. 
p. 217; R. longirostris, Bach,=<?weoyeV*eRS (Msh.), Kirsch, l.c. p. 218. For 
observations on synonymy of the R. megacepJialus of Schonherr and Germar, 
cf. ibid. 
Rhynchites ursus, Gebl., = hungaricus, F., var., of which longimanus, 
Gebl., is probably only a small var. ; R. j)rceustus,'Qo\i., is Algerian ; Auletes 
tessoni, God., taken at hjoviQ,=politus, Boh.; characters are given for Dio- 
dyrhynchus aiistriacus, Germ., and Rhinomacer attelaboides (F.). Desbr. des 
Loges, L’Ab. vii. (in Mon. des Magdalinides, pp. 60 & 61). 
Crotch (Ent. 73, pp. 8-11) briefly abstracts from Des Loges’s monograph 
characters for the British spp. of Rhynchites. 
Rhynchites trifasciatus, sp. n., SufFrian, /. c. p. 229, Cuba. 
Scolopterides. 
Nyxetes, g. n., Pascoe, P. L. S. x. p. 466. Differs from Scolopterus in its 
antennae, the scape of which reaches beyond the eye, and of which the funi- 
culus is 6-jointed, with 3 basal joints elongate (the 1st the longest) and the 
last 3 turbinate, and the club is oblong, its conical prothorax, its elytra 
being scarcely wider at the base than the prothorax and having no shoul- 
ders, and the appendiculate claws of its tarsi. Sp. iV. bidens (Fab., Cure.), 
fig. in White, Voy. Erebus & Terror, pi. iii. f. 12. 
Erodiscides, 
Toxophorus (Schbn.), being preoccupied, was changed to Toxeutes by its 
author. The latter name, however, was also preoccupied in the Longicomta ; 
