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Chopus verhasci (Duf.) = Gymnetron antirrhini (auct.) ; C, uncinatm 
= asellm (Gr.), the larva of which lives in stems of Verhascum: Penis, 
ibid. 
Gymnetron heydenii, sp. n., Deshr. des Loges, B. E. Z. xiv. Beih. p. 168, 
Alhambra; G. griseohirtellnSf sp, n., Desb. d. L. 1. c. p. 169, Corsica and Serra 
Estrella. 
Lcemosaccides. 
Lcnnosaccus hrevipennis, sp. n., Pascoe, P. L. S. x. p. 439, and L. synopticuSf 
sp. 11 ., Pasc. 1. c. p. 440, Queensland ; L. tantuhis, sp. n., Pasc. 1. c. p. 439, W. 
Australia. 
Alcidides. 
Alcides. Pascoe, 1. c., describes the following new species : — A. sattndersUf 
p, 459, pi. xix. f. 4, Siam ; magtcus, Cambogia, delta, Ceylon, Ceram, Am- 
boyna, trijidus, N. China, Japan, Mantchuria, p. 460; diseedens, 
Singapore, Sarawak, asphaltinus, Batchian, Gilolo, p. 461 ; semperi, p. 462, 
Philippines. 
Alcides heilipoides, sp. n., Pascoe, Tr. E. Soc. 1870, p. 211, Victoria. 
HaplonycMdes. 
Aolles, g. n., Pascoe, P. L. S. x. p. 450. Differs from Ilaplonyx solely in its 
6-join ted funiculus and 3-jointed tarsi. Metatyges, Physarchus, and Sigastus, 
Pasc., should probably also be referred to this subfamily. Sp. A. ruhiginosus 
and A. nuceus, spp. nn., Pasc. 1. c. p. 451, W. Australia. 
Haplonyx. Pascoe, 1. c., describes the following new spp, : — H. myrrhatus, 
p. 488, ericeus, p. 490, venosus, centralis, and cionoidcs, p. 491, turtur, p. 492, 
S. Australia; ustipcnnis, p. 488, Sydney; dotatns, ibid., lucins, p. 489, W. 
Australia; vestigialis and fallaciosus, p. 489, majalis and seolopax, p. 490, 
Queensland. 
Metatyges cuprcus, sp. n., Pascoe, 1. c. p. 443, Gold Coasts 
Cholides. 
Polyderces dilatatus, sp. n., Taschenb., Z, ges. Naturw. 1870, Bd. i. p. 189, 
Columbia. 
Cryptorhynchides. 
Conotrachelus nennphar, the plum Curculio.” For an account of experi- 
ments as to the ovipositing of this N. American pest, see Saunders, Canad, 
Ent. ii. pp. 137-139 (Extr. of Rep. read at meeting of Fruit Growers’ Assoc. 
Ont.). Remedies are discussed by Riley in Amer. Ent. ii. p. 130. Figures 
are given of its principal stages, f. 92. 
Crypharis \—Torneuma, Wollast.] raymondii, sp.n., Perris, L’Ab. vii. 
p. 28, Sardinia. 
Arthrostenus alternans, sp. n., Kirsch, B. E. Z, xiv. p. 393, Egypt. 
Pascoe, P. Iv. S. x., characterizes the following new genera and species : — 
Piaphna, p. 445. Belongs to Lacordaire’s subtribe Ithyporides (no diffe- 
rential comparison given). Sp. D. signata, pi. xvii. f. 4, and J>. auritipennis, 
p. 446, Natal. 
1870. [voL. VII.] 
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