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ZOOLOGICAL LITERATURE. 
Cyphon coarctatus and nigriceps, and on the species founded by Thomson and 
Kiesenwetter at the expense of the former {1. c. p. 125). 
Cyphon varialilis. The larva and pupa of this species are described and 
figm-ed by Frauenfeld, Verb. zooL-bot. Ges. in Wien, xvi. pp. 969-970. 
New species : — 
Pseudodactylus, g. n., Hampe, Berl. ent. Zeits. 1806, p. 374. Tarsi 4-jointed, 
stout, joints 1-3 equal in length, 3 with a long, bilobed, membranaceous 
appendage; abdomen of 5 segments ; last joint of palpi compressed, rounded 
at apex ; prosternum with a keeled process. Sp. P. ci'ibratusj sp. n., Hampe, 
/, c. p. 379, from the Abruzzi. 
Artematopiis (Perty). Kirsch (Perl. ent. Zeits. 1866) describes the fol- 
lowing species from Bogota as belonging to this genus, although diilering in 
some characters from Lacordaire’s definition of the genus: — A, urhanus, 
p. 185 ; A. caniccps and yutriniiy p. 180 j and A. yracilipos, p. 187. 
Cyphon kiincJccli, Mulsant & Hey, Col. de France, BrcSvicolles, p. 73, Monto 
Kosa; C. sidcicollisy Muls. & Hey, 1. c. p. 87, pi. 2. fig. 23, Marseilles; C, de- 
pressus, Muls. & Hey, 1. c. p. 89, pi. 2. fig. 23, Lyons. 
Ptilodactyla scrutata, Kirsch, h c. p. 187, and P. cruciata, Kirsch, 1. c. p. 188, 
j&om Bogota. 
Prionocyphm Umhatics, Leconte, Col. N. Amer. i. p. 87, Middle States. 
Helodes apicalisy Leconte, /. c. p. 87, California ; H. explanata^ Lee. ibid., 
Canada ; II. ? h'emcollis, Lee, 1. c. p. 88, Oregon. 
Eucinetus aviformis, Leconte, c. p. 88, Illinois ; and E. testaceusj Lee. 
ibid., Pennsylvania. 
Lycides. Malacodermata. 
Eigrapha divisa (Newm.) probably= apicalis (Lee.). Leconte, List Cob 
N. Am, p. 51, note. 
Lampyrides, 
Theobald confirms the statement that eastern Fireflies sometimes emit and 
stop their light simultaneously (see ^ Hecord,’ 1865, p. 464). His observation 
was made in Pegu. Journ. Asiatic Soc. Beng. 1866, p. 73 ; Proc. Ent. Soc. 
1866, p. xxvii. 
Lampyris splendidida (Linn.). A male of this species has been taken near 
Baltimore. Leconte, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phil. 1806, p. 394. 
Targioni-Tozzetti has described the luminous organ, &c., of Luciola italica 
ViTidi Lampyris noctiluea. (Seep. 291.) 
Lampyris maoulicollis, sp. n., Fairmaire, Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 4« sdr. tome vi. 
p. 262, from Asia Minor (larva also described) ; L. berytensisy Fairm. 1. c. p. 263, 
note, from Syria ; Lampyris obtusa, Fairmaire, 1. c. p. 44, from Tangier. 
Microphotus, g. n., Leconte, Col. N. Amer. i. p. 89. Allied to Phausis ; 
antennae 11-jointed; prothorax without hyaline spots. Sp. M. dilatatuSy 
sp. n., Lee. 1. c. p. 90, California, 
Pleotomus pallensy sp. n., Leconte, 1. c, i. p. 88, Texas. 
Telephorides. 
Notes on the occurrence in the south of Spain of numerous species of this 
subfamily are given by Kiesenavetteh, Berl. ent. Zeits. 1866, pp. 245-263. 
He more fully characterizes the species indicated in his former paper i see 
