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Notes on known genera and species '. — 
Suffrian describes a Donacia from Celebes, which he identifies with D. 
javana (Wied.), a species unknown to Lacordaire. Stett. ent. Zeit. 1864, 
p. 86. 
Zcugophora turneri (Power) is figured and described by I’ ye, Ent. Ann. 
1864, p. 70, fig. 8. 
According to Philippi (Stett. ent. Zeit. 1864, p. 388), Cryptocephalus 
chihnsis and elegans (Blanch.) are the two sexes of the same species. 
Dohrn states (Stett. ent. Zeit. 1864, p. 195) that Cryptocephaliis miens 
(Stierl.) is identical with C. lateralis (Suffr.) ; Pachyh'achys astragali (Stierl.) 
= P. vermicnlaris (Suffr.). 
According to Suffrian (Stett. ent. Zeit. 1864, p. 266), Crypt oceplialus 
hrachialis (Muls.)=(7. popnli (Dahl); and C. rapJiaelensis (Gautier) = C. 
politus (Suffr.). 
Cryptocephalus hecleri (Dohm, MS.), SuflTrian, Stett. ent. Zeit. 1864, p. 265, 
from Sarepta,= C. elegans (Becker, MS.)= C. ergenensis (Morawitz). The last- 
mentioned name has the priority. 
Kraatz has published (Mittheil. Schweiz, ent. Ges. 1864, p. 206) some 
remarks on the specific identity or dissimilarity of several species of Oreina^ 
with especial reference to O. nigriceps and O. peirdlerii. 
Hamlet Clark remarks (Arm. & Mag. N. II. 3rdser. vol. xiv. 
p. 1 15) that the genus Polysticta (Hope) includes the uncha- 
racterized genera Atechna and Centroscelis (Chevr. in Dej. Cat.), 
between which there is no real difference, Clark refers 36 
species to the genus Polysticta as defined by him, 30 of which 
are described by him, or indicated by their synonymy, in the 
paper above cited. The previously described species are : P. 
striata (Fab.) ; %4^-signata (Thunb.) ; clarkii (Baly), described 
in 1864; 1^-guttata (Fab.); Vd-pustulata (Thunb.); notata 
(Fab.); and^;^«//?^^^« (Fab.). Undescribed but previously named 
species are P. macularis, 20-guttatay multifida, fguratd, and 
clathrata (Hej. Catalogue), and P. nigro-signata (Bohem.). 
Perris states that Chrysomela carhonaria (Suffr.) is identical with C. 
(Timarcha) pyrenaiea (L. Uuf.). Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 4® s^r. tom. iv. p. 310. 
Baly (Joum. of Ent, ii. pp. 291-2) characterizes Olivier’s genus Paropsis, 
and has some observations on the geographical distribution and S 3 monymy of 
the species. Of species of other authors he describes P. variolosa, Marsh. 
(1. c. p. 293) ; P. reticulata, Marsh. (/. c. p, 299) ; P. atomaria, Marsh. (/. c. 
p. 300) ; P. macnlata. Marsh. {1. c. p, 301) ; P. marmorea, Oliv. (/. c. p. 302) ; 
P. lutea. Marsh. (/. c. p. 304) ; P. ohsoleta, Oliv. (/. c. p. 309) ; and P. porosa, 
Erichs. (/. c. p. 310). 
Arsipoda (Erichs.). Baly has published a revised character of this genus, 
and given a tabular synopsis of the Australian species, fourteen in number, 
nine of which were previously described, namely, A. variegata (Waterh.), 
ovata (Wat.), attenuata (Wat. 4- $ suhstriata, Wat.), crassicornis (Wat.), 
nitida (Wat.), hifrons (Erichs,), hicolor (Wat.), consuta (Germ.), and chrysis 
(Oliv.). Ann. & Mag. N. II. 3rd ser. vol. xiv. pp. 438, 439. 
