COLEOPTERA. 437 
Bythinus zonatm, Brendel, 1 . c. p. 28, from Louisiana and Virginia j and 
B, carinatuSj Brend. 1. c. p. 29, from Pennsylvania. 
Bythimis armatusj Hampe, Wien. ent. Mon. Bd. viii. p. 336, from Agram. 
Articerus syriacns (Chevr. MS.), Saulcy, Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 4® s^r. tom. v. 
p. 15, from Saida in Syria (witK Formica flava ?), , 
Machcoritcs honvoidoirt, Saulcy, 1 . c. p. 16, from Bagneres-de-Bigorre. 
ScYDMiENIDTE. 
Von Hagens expresses a doubt wliether any ^cydmccni are true guests in 
ants’ nests, but Kraatz mentions several species which he has found in abun- 
dance in such situations. Berl. ent. Zeits. 1865, p. Ill and note. 
Scotodytes, g. n., Saulcy, Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 4® ser. tom. v. p. 18. Allied to 
Cephennium ; blind, apterous ; 4th joint of maxillary palpi narrow, subu- 
late ; abdomen four times the length of the elytra, corneous, bent down- 
wards, with the segments nearly equal. Sp. S. yaradoxmj sp. n., Saulcy, l.c. 
p. 19, from Banyiils-sur-Mer. 
Scydmamm castaneus^ Wollaston, Col. Atl. App. p. 66, from the Canaries. 
SltPIllDdE. 
l)e Saulcy gives some additional characters of Catops dorsiger (Mars.), 
which is found in nests of Myrmica harhara at Jerusalem. 
I)e Borre records the occun'ence of Cholera iniei'media (Kr.) in Belgium. 
Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg. tom, viii. p. 277. 
Necrophorus. Power has published a revision of the British species of this 
genus, chiefly with the object of indicating the characters by which N. mi- 
crocephalm (Thoms.) and galUcus (J. Duv.) may be separated from N. rus~ 
pator (Erichs.) and interruptus (Steph.) =/o5so>- (Erichs.). Rye suggests 
that the two new species may only be varieties of those to which they are 
respectively allied. 
G. R. Crotch (Entomologist, ii. p. 322) regards the four forms of Cholera 
angustata as defined by Murray as four distinct but subordinate species, and 
cites their characters from Brisout de Barneville’s notice of them in Gre- 
nier’s Catalogue of the Coleoptera of France. 
The following Imown species of this family have been recorded as newly 
detected in Britain : — Necropho7'us mieroeephahis (Thoms.) and gallicus 
(,T. Duv.) by Power, Entom. ii. p. 199 ; Cholera longtda (Kelln.) by Rye, 
Ent. M. Mag. i. p. 257. 
Silpha atrata and its habits in the larval and perfect states are described 
by Taschenberg (Naturg, wirbell. Thiere, pp. 39-41, pi. 6. figs. 7 &8). 
New species 
Catops pinicoluj Wollaston, Col. Atl. App. p. 12, from Teneriffe. 
CatopsimorphuB. Of this genus De Saulcy (Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 4® s^r. tom. 
iv.) describes four new species found in nests of Myrmica harhara in Pales- 
tine : namely, C.Jadems, I c. p. 423 ; C. samaritaims, 1. c. p. 424,* C. michonis, 
1. c. p. 425 ; and C. incisipennis, 1. c. p. 426. 
Cholera conjungens^ Saulcy, 1. c. p. 427, C.crihrata^ Saulcy, ibid,, and C, mo- 
hammedis, Saulcy, 1. c. p. 428, from Jerusalem. 
