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Cryptocephalides. 
Cryptocephalus hypochceridis (Thoms., Sk. Ool. \i\\.) = sericeus (L.): Thoms. 
1. c. X. p. 275 } C. sericeus (Thoms, nec L.) is renamed bidens : ibid. p. 274. 
Pachybrachys haliciensUf Mill., is recorded by Pelikan from the Wien, near 
Ilietzing (Verb, zool.-bot. Qes. Wien, xx. p. 65). 
Cryptocephalus asturicnsis, sp. n., v. Ileyden, B. E. Z. xiv. Beih. p. 100; 
C. pocciloccras, sp. n., v. Ileyd. 1. v. p. 107, Santas Albas ; C. bicallusus, sp. n., 
Kirsch, B. E. Z. xiv. p. 376, Bogota. 
Stylosomus bituber culatus, sp. n., Desbr. des Loges, B. E. Z. xiv. Beih. 
p. 169, Andalusia. 
Chrysomelides. 
Vogel (Nunq. Otios. pp. 65-80) makes some general observations upon the 
Chrysomelides of Middle and South Africa, of which he gives (pp. 69-77) a 
tabular arrangement, containing indications of 64 new spp. The author 
characterizes Horatopyga (StSl), and describes 6 spp. (3 new). 
Dohbn (S. E. Z. xxxii. p. 357) quotes Hope’s reference of Chrysomela 
spat'shalli, Curt., to variolosa, Petagna. 
Rupertsberger (Verb. z.-b. Ges. Wien, xx. pp. 840-842) describes the 
larva and pupa, and records his observations on the economy of Chrysomela 
varians, F., from Hypericum perforatum. 
The eggs of Chrysomela fastuosa, L., are attacked by one of the Ptero- 
malides : Wagner (in Trav. prem. assembl. Nat. de Russ.). 
Lucas (Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 4^ s6r. x. Bull. p. Iv) notes Chrysomela banksii, 
var., from Brittany. 
Lina tremidce (F.) and longicollis (Suffr*.). Kirsch, B. E. Z. xiv. p. 218, 
recapitulates the differential characters of these species. 
Somerville (Ent. M. M. vii. p. 108) notes the earlier stages of Melasoma 
cenea. 
The habits oi Doryphora \0-lineata, Say, and Germ., respectively 
known inN, America as the true and ‘‘bogus” Potato-bug, are described, and 
figures of all their stages given, in Amer. Ent. i. p. 41 et seq. figs. 33 & 34. 
Perris (L’Ab. vii. p. 35) always finds the larvae of Prasocuris beccabungce 
on the leaves of Sium latifolium, and not in the stems of that plant, which 
Boie states to be the habitat of P. phellandrii. The larva never occurs on the 
Veronica from which the species takes its name, according to Perris. 
Bellevoye (Nouv. et faits div. p. xxi) supplies notes on the economy of 
P. phellandrii, the larva of which lives, according to him, in stems of (Enanthe 
phellandrium. 
New species : — 
Timarcha brulerid (Fairm. MS.), Bell, de la Chavign., Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 
4e s^r. X. Bull. p. xxvii, Dourbes. {Cf. Abeille de Perrin, ibid. p. xlvii.) 
Chrysomela cantabrica, v. Heyden, B. E. Z. xiv. Beih. p. 170 j C. nifo- 
femorata, v. Heyd. /. c. 171, Santas Albas. 
Elytrosphcera sculptilis, Kirsch, B. E. Z. xiv. p. 376, Bogota. 
Oonioctena grandini, l)esbr. des Loges, L’Ab. vii. p. 132, Amdlie-des- 
Bains. 
Horatopyga mniszcchii, Vogel, 1. c., 0. of Good Hope and Nnmaquaj H, 
