330 INSECTA, COLEOPTEllA. 
V. Frauexfeld (Verb, zool.-bot. Qes. Wien, xx. p. 44) communicates 
observations made by Aug. W immer on Cassida oblonga, which, according to 
the latter, is injurious to sweet turnips. Some little doubt is indicated as to 
the correctness of this statement. 
Cassida prasina, GylL, = viridula^ Payk. : Thomson, Sk. Ool. x. p. 278. 
Burmi«:ister, 1. c., describes the following new species : — 
Mesomphalia inaurata^ p. 276, Tucuman, 
Pcecilaspis tesseUata, p. 276, Tucuman. 
Chelymorpha polyspilota,Tp. 278, and C.piperata,^. 279, Monte Video. 
Physonota unicolor, p. 280, Mendoza. 
Coptocycla yraminis, p. 281, Tucuman, Buenos Ayres. 
Erotylid^. 
Crotch (Ent. 73, pp. 7 & 8) gives brief characters (compiled from Bedel’s 
monograph) for the British spp. (real and reputed) of Triplax. lie also in 
like manner discusses the British spp. of Engis, 
Erotylus ziczac, sp. n., Taschenberg, Z. ges. Naturw. 1870, Bd. i. p. 196, 
Columbia. 
Mycotretus. Taschenberg, ibid,, describes the following new species from 
Columbia : — M. dispar and midtimaculatus, p. 197 ; bicolor, dimidiatus, and 
coccinelloides, p. 198 j discoidalis, p. 109. 
EnDOMYCIIIDA5. 
A Tyrolean var. of Mycetina cruciata (Schall.) is described, and named 
interrupta, by Gredler, C. H. vi. p. 17. 
CoCCINELLIDiE. 
Southwell (Tr. Norw. Soc. 1869-70) remarks upon the abundance of 
Coccinellce on the Norfolk coast. 
Somerville (Ent. M.M. vii. p. 108) notes the earlier stages of Coccinella 
\Q-guttata, 
Chilocorus bivulnerus. Mills., and its larva, antagonistic to a bark-louse 
(Aspidioltfs harrissii, Walsh) in Iowa, are described and figured in Amer. 
Ent. i. p. 39, f, 32. Hippodamia maculata (De G.), II. V^-punctata (L.), 
H. convergens (Gu^r.), and Coccinella Q-notata, llbst., which prey upon the 
eggs of Doryphora \Q-lineata, Say, are also described and figured, 1. c. p. 46. 
New species : — 
Coccinella ykilianii (Fairm. MS.), Bell, de la Chavign., Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 
4o s6r. x. Bull. p. xxvii, Digne, Piedmont (this is almost certainly Ilarmonia 
lyncea, 01. : Abeille de Perrin, ibid. p. xlvii). 
Calvia eburnea, B. de la Chavign. 1. c. p. xxviii, Digne {cf, Abeille de 
Perrin, 1. c.). 
Pharus basalis, Kirsch, B. E. Z. xiv. p. 394, Egypt. 
Scymnus includens and S. isidis, Kirsch, ibid. p. 306, and S. varius, p. 306, 
Egypt; S. co?ijunctus, Wollaston, Ann. N. II. ser. 4, v. p. 248, S. Vincente 
(Cape- Verdes). 
