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ZOOLOGICAL LITERATURE. 
Leptusa puellaris, Trichonyx adnexus, JSryaxis tristis, JBythinus curvipes and 
hajuluSj Claviycr 7iitidus, Mio'orhayus brevis, and Clytus apicalis (Ilampe) ; 
from Costa’s ^Nnovi Studii/ 18G3, Nanophyes 4t-viryaius and centromacu- 
lakis (Costa), and Lcptura cxceJsa (Costa) ; from the Denkschr. Akad. Wiss. 
in Wien, 1850, diagnoses of the new species and genera from liedtenhacher’s 
Coleoptera Persica;” descriptions of new species of Ilcdticides from Kiit- 
schera’s monograph in tlie Wiener entom. Monatschrift for 1864, and of 
Athous 2>7'oximus and sjjectabilis, TypJdoyhortis dcplanatus, Acalles validus, iVe- 
mosoma fascicolle (Ilampe), and Momolota glacialis (INIilL), from the same 
journal; and the anonymous analysis of the species of Calohius (Woll.) and 
descriptions of Dorcadion cretosmn and S 2 (furatum (Ferrari), also published 
in Wiener ent. Mon. 1864. Be Marsoul also describes a species of Coscmia 
from the Algerian Saliara, which he identities with C. semelederi (Chaud.), 
1. c. p. xxxiii. 
Bates (Proc. Zool. Soc. 1866, pp. 339-340) makes some 
general remarks upon a eolleetion of Coleoptera sent from For- 
mosa by Swinlioe. The eolleetion includes 285 species, of 
wliicli about half are well-known Malayan forms; the groups 
most largely represented are the Pby topliaga (62 sp.) , the La- 
mellicornia (47), the Longicornia (31), the Fleteromera (32), and 
the Illiyncliopliora (27). The species jn’csent no peculiarity of 
type, the strongest relations being with the Chinese fauna. A 
Damaster was recorded by Swinhoe {in ejnst.); but the specimen 
Avas not found in the boxes. Of the new species 38 arc de- 
scribed in the present paper. 
Pascoe notices the contents of a small collection of Coleoptera from Fre- 
mantle (West Australia). Proc. Ent. Soc. 1866, p. xvi. 
Fairmaire & CoQUEREL have continued their ‘^Essai sur les Col^opteres 
de Barbarie” (Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 4es<5r.tomevi. pp. 17-74). This part includes 
notices and descriptions of species belonging to the following families 
Carabidee, Paussidee, Nitidulidce, Peltidce, Cleridce, ScarabceidcB, Puprestidee, 
CebrionidcB^, Lampyridcc, llelopidce, Canthai'idce, Qjldcmeridce, Curcidionidce, 
Cerambycidee, Chrysoinclidce, and Coccincllidce. 
PojAS publishes some remarks upon the Coleoptera living on the maize- 
plant in the province of Caraccas. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 4® s^r. tome vi. 
pp. 220-232. 
The same writer (/. c. pp. 232-233) details some observations made by him 
upon the period of tlie day at which fecundation is usually elfected by various 
species of this order. Trachyderes succinct us and AncTjlosternus scutellaris 
copulate about noon, Acrocinus lonyimanus in the morning, Ancistroma 
fai'inosum (Salle) in the twilight. Some species vary the time of their 
fecundation according to the climate of the localities in which they live. 
Further details on this subject occur in the author’s Catalogue of Longi- 
corns. 
Two larva-cases of Beetles from Brazil are noticed by W. W. Saunders. 
Proc. Ent. Soc. 1866, p. xxx. 
Tasciieneerg notices the occurrence of a slight movement in the tips of 
the antennoe of tv/o specimens of an Anchomenus on being* pinned, after re- 
