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p. 389; Cryptohypnm ^-ptistulatus (Germ.) occurs near Washington (ibid.); 
Limonius infernus (Lee.) = Blater nimhatus (Say) according to types in 
Melslieimer’s collection {1. c. p. 391); Athom undulatm (De G.) occurs in 
Hudson’s Bay Territory {l.c. p. 391) ; Corymhites hrunnipcs (Bland) = C, 
morulus (Lee.), 1. c. p. 392. 
Corymhites. Stierlin has published a tabular synopsis of the European 
species of this genus, founded on the monograph of the Elateridas of Candeze. 
Mitth. schweiz. ent. Ges. 1866, pp. 293-299. 
Semiotus. Kirsch (Berl. ent. Zeits. 1866) remarks on the characters and 
variation of S. fulvicollis (Blanch.), p. 179, and ^S'. sommerii (Cand.), p; 180. 
Smilecerus hitinctus, variations noticed by Kirsch, /. c. p. 183. Kirsch also 
indicates a variety of Tomicephalus sardioderus (Cand.), 1. c. p. 183, and de- 
scribes the 5 of Octinodes capillatus (Cand.), p. 184. 
Crotch (Entomologist, iii. p. 124) remarks on the synonymy of several 
species of this group: — Cryptohypnus scotus (Cand.) = maritimus (Curt.); 
Melanotus niger receives the name of M. punctolineatus (Pel.) on account of 
Athous niger ; Ctenonyclms (Steph.) is substituted for Synap)tus (Esch.), the 
latter name being preoccupied. Cardiophorus thoraeicus is regarded as a 
doubtful British species by Crotch, who also doubts whether Cryptohypnus 
dermestoides and ^-yustulatus are distinct. 
Athous subfuscus (Miill.) and Limonius parvulus (Panz.) are recorded as 
British by Crotch (Cat. Brit. Col.). See Bye, Ent. Ann. 1867, p. 80. 
The occurrence of Agriotes sordidus (Bl.) and Corymhites affinis (Payk.) in 
France is recorded by Desbrochers des Loges. Bull. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1866, 
p. xxxiii. 
Anamesus, g. n., Leconte, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phil. 1866, p. 393. Allied 
to Aplastus ; 6th ventral segment truncate at apex and exposing the 6th. 
Sp. A. convexicollis, sp. n., Leconte, 1. c. p. 393, Nevada and California. 
New species : — - 
Semiotus. Kirsch (Berl. ent; Zeits. 1866) describes the following new 
species from Bogota : — S. candezei, p. 180 ; S. superhus^fusiformis, and qua- 
dricollisj p. 181. 
Laeon formosanus and L. setiger^ Bates, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1866, p. 348, For- 
mosa. 
Adelocera pyrsolepis, Leconte, 1. c. p. 389, New Mexico ; A. maculatay 
Leconte, ibid., Philadelphia and Washington. 
Cryptohypnus gentilis, Leconte, 1. c. p. 389, Nebraska. 
Megapenthes angidaris, Leconte, 1. c. p. 390, Missouri. 
Anchastus bicolor, Leconte, 1. c. p. 390, Lower California. 
Melanotus gradatus, Leconte, 1. c. p. 390, Maryland ; M. opacicollis, Leconte, 
ibid., Illinois. 
Melanotus umber and M. tamsuyemis, Bates, 1. c. p. 349, Formosa. 
Limonius pector alts, Leconte, 1. c. p. 391, Hudson’s Bay Territory. 
Athous limbatus, Leconte, 1. c. p. 391, California ; A. montanus, Leconte, 
ibid., Montana Territory. 
Athous. The following new Spanish species are described by C. Brisout de 
Barneville (Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 4® s6r. vi.) : — A. reynosce, 1. c. p. 376, A, 
nigricornis, 1. c. 377, from Beynosa ; A. lateralis, 1. c. p. 378, A. tenuis, 1. c. 
379, from Madrid ; and A. elongatus, 1. c. p. 380, from Toledo and Cordova. 
