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ZOOLOGICAL LITERATURE. 
Morychusvaiiolosus, sp. n., Perris, Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 4®. s^r. tome iv. p. 281, 
from the Escurial, under stones. 
Limnickus leprieuni, sp. n., Perris, /. c. p. 282, from Algeria. 
Parnid^e. 
Perez (Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 4® ser. tome iii. pp. 621-G36) describes and' 
figures the metamorplioses of Macronychus qiuidrituherculatus, the larvae of 
which he met with in August 1862, in cavities in the bark of an old rotten 
willow trunk partially immersed in the water. The larvi© were at a height 
of two feet above the surface of the water, and the author found that they 
had ascended to this elevation for the purpose of undergoing their change 
to the pupa state, which takes place in small cavities hollowed out in the 
substance of the decaying bark. The author fully describes the structure 
of both the larva and pupa, and figures them, Avith details, on the plate ac- 
companying his memoir (pi. 14). He also describes a species of Pteromahis 
which is parasitic on the Macronychus. 
Kraatz regards Ilctcroccrus minutus (Kiesenw.) as identical with H. Jia- 
vidus (Rossi). Berk ent. Zeitschr. 1804, p. 133. 
Ilctcroccrus Jiave^ccnSy sp. n., Schaufuss, Sitzungsber. Gesellsch. Isis, for 
1803, p. 116, and llct. funehris, sp. n., Schaufuss, 1. c. p. 117, from the South 
of Spain. 
Elmis condimcntarius, sp. n., Philippi, Stett. ent. Zeit. 1864, p. 96, from 
Peru. (See ante, p. 347). 
Lucanid^e. 
In his valuable Catalogue of the Lucanoid Coleoptera (Ent. 
Trans. 3rd series, vol. ii. pp. 1-113), Parry divides these Beetles 
into seven families, namely Chiasoynathidce, Lucanuloiy Dor- 
cid(By Figalidaiy Syndesidce, JEsalidce, and Sinodendridce . The 
total number of species admitted by the author into his list is 
332, of which 145 belong to the second and 110 to the third of 
his families. The new species, of which the names are given 
below, amount to fifty. 
Parry has published (Proc. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1864, pp. 5-8) 
some further remarks on Thomson's Catalogue of Lucanidse,^^ 
containing an indication of the synonymy of fifteen of Thom- 
son's species, with special notes on that of Dorcus luxerii 
(Buquet), jEgus cicatricosus (Dejean), Frosopocoilus bulbosus 
(Hope), and Ceratognathus helotoides (Thomson). All these 
synonymies are reproduced in his Catalogue of the Lucanoid 
Coleoptera.^^ 
Parry remarks (Ent. Trans, vol. ii. p. 6) that Chiasognathus latrcillei 
(Sober) and C. reichii (Thoms.) are the sexes of the same species, and that 
C. mniszcchii (Thoms.) is probably identical with C. jousscUnii (Reiche). 
The same author removes the genus Colophon (Westw.) from the Dorcidaa 
to the Chiasognathidye, considering it to be most nearly allied to Lamprima 
(1. c. p. 7). 
According to Parry (/. c. p. 10), Lucanns sericans (Volk) is probably a 
variety of L. maculifcniorutus (Motsch.), and from .lapan, not Java. 
