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schaufmsii, Vog. 1. c. p. 79, Natal, Caffraria, C. of Good Hope j H. stMi, Vog. 
1. c. p. 80, Caffraria. 
Pyxis bogotensis, Kirsch, B. E. Z. xiv. p. 377, Bogota. 
Gallerucides. 
Desbu. des Loges (L’Ab. vii. p. 134) redescribes his Galleruca carinulata. 
IloNDANi (Nota &c.) refers to, and in two instances describes, parasites of 
the orders Piptera and Ilymenoiitera upon Galleruca xanthomeleena {cal- 
mariams). 
Romanes (Ent. 78, p. 98) notes the occurrence of vast numbers of a sp. 
of Galleruca on the surface of the sea on the coasts of Moray and Cromarty, 
in May 1870. 
The Cucumber-beetle ” {Diahrotica vittata, F.) is recorded by Zeller as 
attacking blossoms of pear and cherry in Illinois, U. S. A. Amer. Ent. & Bot. 
ii. p. 239. 
Galleruca T-nigrum, sp. n., G. Bertoloni, Mem. Ac. Bologn. 2nd ser. viii. 
p. 192, tab. i. f. 1, nos. 1 & 2, Mozambique. 
Aulacophora petcrsi^ sp. n., G. Bertol. /. c. p. 194, t. i. figs. 3 & 4, Mo- 
zambique. 
Diacantha^ himaculata, sp. n., G. Bertol. 1. c. p. 196, t. i. figs. 6, 6, 7, 
Mozambique. 
Luperus biraghiij sp. n., Bagusa, Bull. Ent. Ital. ii. p. 314, Palermo ; L. 
diniemis, sp. n.. Bell, de la Chavign., Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 4® s6r. x. Bull, 
p. xxvii, Digne (most T^vdhah\y=betulinus, var. ; Abeille de Perrin, ibid. 
p. xlvii). 
Halticides. 
Letzner (JB. Schles. Ges. xlvii. pp. 182-184) gives a list of HalticidcB 
recently detected in Silesia, occasionally noting the food-plants of the spp. 
Haltica cticumei'is, Harr., is figured, and an account of its injuries to the 
potato given in Amer. Ent. i. p. 27, f. 19. 
Haltica chalybea, 111., is figured in its chief stages, and an account of its 
ravages to the grape-vine given, by Riley in Amer. Ent. & Bot. ii. pp. 327 & 
328, figs. 204 & 205. 
Psylliodes attenuatus (Ent. H.) is known as “ the Hop-flea ” in Kent : 
Gorham (Ent. M. M. vii. p. 80). 
Perhis (L’Ab. vii. p. 84) notes the larva of Pibolia paludina, from Mont 
de Marsan, as establishing its galleries in the leaves of Mentha rotundifolia, 
Orestia pommereaui, sp. n., Perris, 1. c. p. 33, Tenes. 
Aphthona heydeni, sp. n., Allard, B. E. Z. xiv. Beih. p. 172, Ronda; A. 
brunnipesy sp. n., All. (diagnosis only) Pet. Nouv., 1 Jan. 1870, p. 60, Seville. 
Cassidides. 
Burmeister (S. E. Z. xxxi. pp. 273-281) describes the species of Cas- 
sidides occurring in the R. Plate district, and makes numerous observations, 
chiefly as to localities, on certain spp. attributed to the same district by 
Boheman. 
* As to this generic name, cf. Zool. Rec. vi. p. 298. There is also a 
Diacantha (Solier) in the Plateridce. 
1870. [voL. VII.] 
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