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ZOOLOGICAL LITERATURE. 
Hydrcma palustl'is (Erichs.), angustata (Sturm), avA pulchella (Germ.) are 
recorded as British by Crotch (Oat. Brit. Col.). See Bye, Ent. Ann. 1867, 
pp. 77-78. 
Fachysternum h^morrhoum, sp. n., Motschulsky, Bull. Soc. Nat. Mosc. 
xxxix. 1. p. 108, Japan. 
Megasternum gihhvlumy sp. n., Motschulsky, l,c. p. 169, Japan. 
Brachelytra. 
FaItvel has commenced (Bull. Soc. Linn. Norm. x. pp. 250-353) a mono- 
graphic revision of the Chilian Staphylinidse, of which he has completed the 
first 3 subfamilies, the Aleocharini, Tachyporini, and StapJiylinini of Erich- 
son. He remarks on the small size of the species generally, the largest mea- 
suring only 10 millims. No true Staphylinus or Ocypus occurs. The general 
type of the insects of Chili is European in its aspect; and this is particularly 
striking in the Staphylinidae. Of European species 9 occur, namely Aleochara 
lata (Grav.), Ilomalota lividipennis (Mann.), Oligota pusillhna (Gray.), 
Fhilonthus sordidus (Grav.), vai'ians (Fab.), and nigritidus (Gray.), Lithocharis 
ochracea (Gray.), Oxytelus sculptus (Gray.), and TrogopJdoeus riparius (Lac.). 
One species found in Madagascar {Isomalus semirufusy Erichs.) is met with. 
There are only 3 Peruvian and 1 North American species ; and no examples 
occur of the characteristic Brazilian genera Coproporusy PinopkiluSy Cryp- 
tohiumy Osoriusy LisjnnuSy ApocelluSy (fee. 
Aleocharides. 
Fauvel (Bull. Soc. Linn. Norm. x. pp. 22-23) gives the following notes on 
the synonymy of species of this subfamily : — Falagria elegans (Baudi) = F. 
formosa (Rosenli.) ; Oxypoda amicta (Erichs.) is a Leptusa; Lcptiisa I'lq^eslris 
(Fauv.) = Oxypoda incrassata (Muls.) ; Aleochara senilis (Muls.) = A. 
grisea (Kraatz) ; A. hrunnqyennis (Motsch.), name previously employed by 
Kraatz ; Chilopora colorata (Fairm.) = Tachyusa exarata (Mann.) ; Iloma- 
lota jlavipes (Thoms.), name previously employed by Gravenhorst ; H. pollens 
(Bedt.) = indocilis (Heer). H. pallens (Muls.) is a species nearly allied 
to macella (Erichs.), but distinct; Oligota ohseuricornis (Motsch.) = O. 
pusillima (Grav.). 
Fauvel also notes (1. c. p. 246) that Ocalea rivularis (Mill.) = castanea 
(Erichs.); Leptusa chlcn'otica (Faim.) = glohidicollis (Muls.) ; Aleochara frigida 
(Fauv.) = ligeea (Kraatz) ; the genera Chilopora (Kraatz), Ischnoglossa 
(Kraatz), and Fncephalus (Westw.) are to be united respectively with 
Calodera (Mann.), Stichoglossa (Fairm.), and Gyropheena (Mann.). 
Mecorhopalus (Solier) is referred by Fauvel to Aleochara (Bull. Soc. 
Linn. Norm. x. p. 285). The same author also unites Euthorax (Sol.) and 
Myrmecochara (Kraatz) with Oxypoda (/. c. p. 301). Anomognathus Jili- 
formis (Sol.) is a IlomalotOy scarcely differing from the European II. cuspi- 
data (Fauvel, 1. c. p. 313). Holobus (Sol.) is referred by Fauvel to Oligota 
(1. c. p. 324). 
Besides the species referred to hereafter, Fauvel figures the details of 
Polylohus hicolor (Sol.), 1. c. pi. 4. figs. 32-85 ; Ilomalota fasciatipennis (F. & 
G.), figs. 36, 37 ; and the posterior tarsus of Euryusa parallela (F. & G.), 
fig. 23. 
Kraatz (Berl. ent. Zeits. 1866, pp. 413 and 416) cites Fauvel’s results, and 
