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Oxytelus terrestris (Heer). Dietrich (1. c. p. 84) states that this is ft Yftl’iety 
of O. ^ciilptiiratics (Gray.); and calls attention to an error in Erichson’s de- 
scription of the latter. 
Fauvel (Bull. Soc. Linn. Norm, tome ix. p. 309, note) tabulates the cha- 
racters of Bledim tricortm (Herbst), of which he regards spectahilis 
(Kraatz) as a variety, B. nuchicornis (Muls. & Bey), and a new species^ B. 
graelUii. 
Bledius suhterraneus. The habits of this species are referred to by Bold, 
Ent. M. Mag. ii. p. 89. 
Oxyponis occipitalis, sp. n., Fauvel, L’Abeille, i. p. 371, and O. bicolor, 
Fauv. ibid., from North America. 
Bledius graellsii, sp. n., Fauvel, 1. c. p. 309, note, from the South of Europe 
and Algeria. — Bleduis atomus, sp. n., Saulcy 1. c. p. 658, from Alexandria. 
Bledius fuscipes. Rye, Ent. M. Mag. ii. p. 164, from the shores of the Firth 
of Forth, 
TrogopUceus hrebissonii, sp. R., Fauvel, I, e. p. 312, from Normandy, the 
Alps, and the Pyrenees. 
Pie$tide^. 
Fauvel has published (Bull. Soc. Linn. Norm. tom. ix; pp, 8- 
66) a monographic revision of the species of this subfamily from 
Central America. The systematic arrangement of the genera 
and the geographical distribution of the species of Leptochirus are 
given by the author in tables at pp. 14-16. Of 22 species, 8 
are found in Asia, 7 in Oceania (Java and New Zealand), 1 in 
Madagascar, and 6 in Central America; of the latter, 2 are de- 
scribed as new, and 1 new Indian species is described. Of the 
known species Fauvel figures the foreheads of L- scqriaceus 
(Germ.), L, maaiillosu^ (Fab.), and i. mmcanus (Ef.), pi. 1. 
figs. 1-3. Of Piestus the author describes 14 Central Americau 
species, of which 4 af e uew i he also characterizes 2 new Bra- 
zilian species. He also figures the foreheads of P. bicornis 
(Oliv.) and P. spinosus '(Fab.), and the margin of the prothorax 
of P. mexicanus (Er.), pL- -1. figs. 6, 6, & 9. The described 
species of Isomalus (inch Eleusis, Lap.), 11 in number, are dis- 
tributed in Asia (3), Madagascar (2), Oceania (1), and America 
(5) ; to the latter list Fauvel adds 2 new species ft*om Brazil and 
3 from Central America, making the total of Central Ameriean 
forms 5. Hypotelus includes 3 species, 1 new. The genus 
Lispinus has 1 1 species described from Asia, 1 from Madagascar, 
and 1 from Tahiti ; the American species described by Fauvel 
are 15 in number, of which 6 are new. The new genus Ancaeus 
includes only a single species. Glyptoma has 1 European and 
1 North American species; the author describes 5 species from 
Central America, only 1 of which is new. 
Ancmis, g. n., Fauvel, 1. c. p. 60, pi. 1. figs. 13-17 (details). Allied to Lispimis ; 
mandibles unarmed, prominent; last joint of max. palpi equal in length to 
