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ZOOLOGICAL LITERATURE. 
Ochina heder<^ (MUll.) forms the subgenus Cittohiunij Muls. & |ley, Z, c. 
pp. 237 & 240. 
Xuletinus ater (Panz.) forms the type of the subgenus Sternoplus, Muls. & 
Hey, 1. c. pp. 203 & 204. 
Pdeuclochma serricornis (Fab.) forms the type of a new subgenus, Ilypora, 
Mulsant & Pey, 1. c. pp. 294 & 306. 
Frauenfeld describes the habits of Anobium pirn (Stiirpi), the larvae of 
which live two or three togotlier in the buds of Fiitus si/lvestris. Veih. zool.- 
bot. Ges. ill Wien, xiy. p. 380. 
The ‘^Report of the Commission appointed to inquire into the causes 
of decay in wood carvings” (London, 1804, pp. lO) contains an account 
by Westwood of the general history of the most injurious of the wood- 
boring Beetles, namely, Ptilimis pectinicornis, Anobium striatum, and A. 
tessellatum. The best remedial process for the treatment of woodwork 
threatened with destruction by these insects appears to be exposure to the 
vapour of benzine. 
According to Kraatz, Ptimis coarcticollis (Sturm) is a distinct species. Berl. 
ent. Zeits. 1804, p. 184. Kraatz also states that P. raptor (Sturm) is quite 
distinct from P. bidens (Oliv., Boield.), to which Boieldieu refers it, 1. c. p. 135. 
Ileyden (Berl. ent. Zeits. 4804, p. 323) givps the following synonymy of 
the two !Fui*epean species of Psoti(l(>chmiis ; — 
4. Pi)\ (Re4t., Jio8e) = redtenbacheri (B^ch)=.och7'a~ 
ceus (Stuvni) ?=cardui (Dey) = l(evis (Duftschm.). 
2. Ps. testacea (Duft.) = ? serricornis (Fab.) = testacea (Sturm, Bach). 
Chevrolat states that the genus Liozoum (Muls.) is identical with his genus 
Conopheribium. Bull. Soc. Ent. Fr. 4804, p. xvii. 
l^ew gmera : — 
Amphibolus, g. n., Muls. k Rey, Col. de Fr. Tdr^diles, p. 204 (see table), 
Sp. Anobium gentile (Rosenh.) and Gastrallus striatelltis (BHsout). 
Mesothes, g. n., Muls. & Rey, 1. c. p. 311 (see table). Sp. Xyletinus ferru- 
gincus (Muls.). 
Enneatoma, g. n., Muls. & Rey, 1. c. p. 367 (see table). Sp. Dorcatoma 
subalpina (Bon.), D. aj^inis (Sturm), and E. stibglobosa, sp. n., p. 377. 
Amblytoma, g. n., Muls. & Rey, 1. c. p. 381 (see table). Sp. Eorcatotna 
rubens (Ent. Ilefte) and A. cognata, sp. n., p. 388. 
OceUiger, Philippi, Stett. ent. Zeit. 1864, p. 283. Allied to Dorcqtoma. 
Forehead loith a median red ocellus j antennae short, in (4 10-jonted, peqtiuated j 
in $ 9-jointed. Sp. O. ater, n. sp., from Chili. 
New species ,• — 
Ptmm fomhi, Philippi, Stett. eut, Ze\t 1864, p, 2$0, from Chili. 
3/ezium hirtipenne, Reiche, Ann. Soc, )Ent. Fr. 4® 6^r. tom§ iv. p. 24f, frouji 
Algeria. 
Sphcericus impunctipennis, Woll. Cat. Can. Col. p. 241, and /S', crotchianus, 
Wolf 1. c. p. 242, froiu Qomera. 
Anobium pullum, Philippi, 1. c. p. 280, and A. hamorrhoidalc, f^hil. /. c. 
