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ZOOLOGICAL LITERATURE. 
P. ciipreofossa, Fairm. 1. c. p. 266; P. germainiij Fairm. I, c. p. 266^ and P. den- 
ticoUis, Fairm. 1. c. p. 267, from Mendoza. 
Epistomentis vittatus, Philippi; Stett. ent, Zeit. 1804, p. 284, from Chili. 
Anthraxia senilis, W oil. 1. c. p. 208, from Grand Canary. 
Zemina stenoloma, Philippi, 1. c. p. 316, from Chili. 
Stigmodera cribellata, Fairmaire, 1. c. p. 263, and S. tricolor, Fairm. 1. c. 
p. 264, from Mendoza ', S. laticoUis, Philippi, 1. c. p. 313, and S. chrysochlora^ 
Phil. 1. c. p. 314, from Chili. 
Aomicodei'a. Wollaston describes three new Canarian species of this 
genus : Acmceodera fracta, Cat. Can. Col. p. 206 j A. plagiata, 1. c. p. 206 j 
and A. ornata, 1. c. p. 207. 
Chrysobothrys cupreipes, Fairmaire, 1. c. p. 262, from Mendoza ; Clirysoho- 
thris pidcherrima, Voll. /. c. p. 164, from Sumatra and Bancaj C. purpurata, 
Bland, Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil. vol. iii. p. 166, from Nebraska. 
Cylindromaiphus pyrethri (Becker), Stierlin, Bull. Soc. Nat. Mosc. 1863, 
p. 491, from Sarepta, perhaps identical with C. papoiuii (Mannerh.) from 
East Siberia \ C. carpetanus, Perris, Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 4« s6r. tome iv. p. 282, 
fi’om Spain. 
Mastogenius sidcicolUs, Philippi, 1. c. p. 316, from Chili. 
Aphanisticus distinctus, Perris, I c. p. 283, from Spain. 
Trachya major, Perris, 1. c. p. 284, from Spain. 
Tyndaris attenuatus, Fairmaire, 1. c. p. 261, from Mendoza. 
Eucnemid^. 
Microrhagus chevrolati, sp. n., Stierlin, Berl. ent. Zeitschr. 1864, p. 148, from 
Sicily. 
Elaterid./E. 
- Stierlin has given (Mittheil. Schweiz, ent. Ges. pp. 214-218) a tabular 
revision of the European species of Cardiophorus, extracted from the ‘ Mono- 
graphie des Elatdrides ’ of Candeze. The table contains the characters of 47 
species, including not only those inhabiting Europe proper, but also the species 
found in Northern Africa and Western Asia. 
Limonius. Stierlin has given a table of the European species of this genus, 
of which he enumerates nine, in Mittheil. Schw. ent. Ges. Feb. 1864, p. 192. 
Cams has communicated to the Academia Naturae Curiosorum Leopol- 
dina (p. 126) an abstract of the observations made in Paris (see Comptes 
Bendus, 19th Sept.) on the light of Pyrophorus, and has some observations on 
insect luminosity. 
Stierlin describes a variety of Eiacanthus ceneus from Sicily. Berl. ent. 
Zeitsch. 1864, p. 149. 
Candeze, M«§m. Soc. Koy. Belg. vol. xvii. ^^Elat^rides nouveaux,” p. 17, 
states that.4/aw5 appendiculatus (Herbst) is from Amboina, and not from 
America •, it is identical with Alaiis roelofsii (Candeze, MS.). 
Cardiophorus rotundicollis (FnY.)=-turgidus (Erichs.), according to Hey- 
den, Berl. ent. Zeits. 1864, p. 321. 
Athoiis undulatus (Be G.) is figured by Bye, Ent. Ann. 1866, fig. 7. 
