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ZOOLOGICAL LITElUTUllE. 
New species : — 
Ciirahus stenocephaluSj Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 4®sdr. tome vi. p. 226, 
pi. 3. fig. 2, and liev. et Mag. do Zool. 1800, p. Ill, from Mogador. 
Carahus. Motscliulsky describes tlio following as new species : — C. stih- 
vircsccnSfl. c. p. 287, Idrijx; C. Uircicus (Kind.), I.c. p. 288, Asia IMinor; C. 
corujruuSj Whiii., Asia Minor ; C. mujliens, 1. c. p. 201, near London ; C. rvfo-_ 
femoratuSj ibid., Switzerland; . 6\ mterstmctuSf 1. c. p. 292, banks of tlie 
Irtiscb ; <7, crom, /, c. p, 294, Songaria. 
Procrustes cordicollis, Motscliulsky, 1. c. p. 298, Garni ola. 
Cychrus anqtoUcus, Motscliulsky, /. c, p. 310, Anatolia. 
Cychrus yuyotiij Leconte, Proc, Acad. Nat. Sci. Pliil. 1800, p. 363, North 
Carolina, 
Sj)hceroilerus Motscliulsky, /. c. p. 312, lludson’s Pay Territory. 
Zeistus maynicolliSf Motscliulsky, /. c. p. 272, Greece ; X. tibialis, Motscli. 
ibid.; Amur. . . 
Alpceus alpieola (Kinderm.), Motscli'iilsky, /- c. p. 273, Asia INlinor. 
Nehria vuiUefroyi, Ohaudoir, Ann. Soc, Ent. Er. 4*^ ser. tome yi. p. 116, 
from Spain, 
Nehria wuillefroyi, Gautier dcs Cottes, Mittli. scliw, ent. Ges. ii. p. 110, La 
Granja. 
Nehrici ohliqua, Leconte, 1. o. p. 303, Colorado. 
Ncbria. Motscliulsky describes the following . species of this genius : — 
N, molhis, 1. c. p. 274, and N. clias, 1. c. p. 276, Kns.sian America; A^. umcolor, 
I.c. p. 275, Altai ; N. femorata, ibid., parvicoUis, jyromota, p. 280, and 
ibid., Siberia ; N. anyustula, p. 277, Kamtschatka; N. parallelo- 
pipccla, p. 277, Caucasus; N. j^rotemsa, p. 278 { = anthracina, Moraiv.), Siberia 
and Kamtschatka ; N. haltica, p. 279, shores of the Baltic ; and N. jamata, 
p. 281, Japan, Kurile Islands. 
Ccroylossns dorsiycr, Motscliulsky, 1. c. p, 284, and C. carimdatus, Motsch, 
ibid.. Chili. 
Plains conyruus, Motscliulsky, Bull. Soc. Nat. Mosc. xxxix. part 1. p. 164, 
Japan, 
Brachinides. / 
Agra. Chandoir publishes (Ann. Soc. Ent. Er. 4° sdr. tome vi. pp. 77- 
104) a list of additions and corrections to his revisioh of the genus Agra 
(inch Agridui). The folloAving are the chief alterations of nomenclatin’e, 
&c. : — Agridia hatesii (G\\QX\A.')—Agra formicaria* (Thoms.) ; Agra stictica 
(King, Chaud.) (King); A. maciditarsis (^0\iqx\(\..) = viridisticta 
(Cbaud.), var. ; A. pacliycncma (Cliand.) = ^>rcn^MVA'.s* (Bej.) ; A. sendatrix, 
(Bates) = P ujccrcns (Chaiuh), var. ; A. suhccnea (Cliaud.) (Luc.) ; 
A. chevrolatii {Govy)—catemdata (King); A. (jaadriceps (Cliand.) = /ymc« 
(Buq.), of which scrobicidata (King, Chaud.) is the cf j A. sculpturata (Liic.) 
attomata ) A. Mimilis {Vwtz.) — variolosa (King); A. biseriata 
(Chaud.) = (King); A. elegans (ChiinA^—clialcoptcra (King); A. 
ignipennis (Iaxc,.) =phcenop)tera (Chaud.) ; Carabus tridentatus (0\iy.')~attela- 
hoides (Fab.); A. subinterrupta (0\iiiy\di.) — midtipl{cata (King); A. optima 
(Bates) is perliaps A. spkmdida (Boj.) $ ; -4. hypolasia {G\\[i\\A) = canccllata 
(Dej.) cf ; A. cceruleipennis (Chtiud.) ==fcistha7)iclii (Biiq.). The characters 
of many of the recently described species are given ; and the references to 
