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ZOOI^OGICAL LlTEliATUEE. 
Necrophorus hecate, Blaud^ Proc. Ent. Soc. Pliil. vol. iv. p. 382, from the 
Colorado Territory. 
Silpha {Oiceoptomd) golowatschoioiij Lindemami, Bull. Soc. Nat. Mosc. 
tom. xxxviii. pt. 2. p. 147, pi. 4. tigs. 1 <&;; 2, from Orel and Beval. Identical 
with Silpha thoracica, as indicated by Kraatz, Berl. ent. Zeits. 1865, p. 414. 
Anisotomid^. 
The following new British species of this family are recorded : — Anisotoma 
triepkii (Schmidt) by Crotch, Cat., and Bye, Ent. M. Mag. i. p. 258 ; Aya- 
thidium rhinoceros (Schiodte) by Sharp, Proc. Ent. Soc. Nov. 1865, Ent. M. 
Mag. ii. p. 169. The latter is figured in Ent. Annual for 1866, fig. 8. 
Agathidiwn mandihtdare. The larva of this species is figured by Schiodte, 
Naturh. Tidsskr. 3rd ser. iii. pi. 2. fig. 1. 
Agathidium polmicimiy sp.n., Wankowicz, Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 4*'ser. tom. v. 
' p. 297, from Lithuania. 
CoRYLOPHIDiE. 
Orthoperus punctatus, sp.n., Wankowicz, Ann, Soc. Lnt. Fr. 4® ser. tome v. 
p. 299, and 0. klukij Wank. I, c. p. 300, from Lithuania. 
TRICHOPTERYGIDiE. 
Matthews has published (Ent. M. Mag. i. pp. 173-178) a notice of several 
species of this family new to the British fauna, some of which are described 
as new. The known species here referred to are Trichopteryx fucicola 
(Fairm.), T, lata, hovma, and h'evis (Motsch.), T. picicornis (Mann.), and 
Ptenidium turgidum (Thoms.). 
Trichopteryx. Matthews describes the following new British species of 
this genus : — T. kirhii, 1. c. p. 175; T. dispar, p. 176 ; and T. amhigua, p. 177. 
Also the following from the Canary Islands : — T. lOoUastoni, p. 248 ; T. crotchii, 
ibid. ; T. canariensis, p. 249 ; and T. anthracina, Ent. M. Mag. ii. p. 35. 
ScAPHpiIDiE. 
Scaphisoma assimile. Rye records the occm’rence of this species in Britain, 
and discusses its characters. Ent. M. Mag. ii. pp. 139-141. 
HiSTERIDiE. 
De AIarseul lias published a revision of the Histeridce of the 
Malayan region (L'^Aheille, tom. i. pp. 271-341). The total 
number of species is 101, of which 26 are found elsewhere in Asia 
or Oceania. The new species only are described ; but in the larger 
genera tables are given of all the known species, with the ncAv 
Malasian forms introduced. Platysoma includes the largest 
number of the latter, namely 32 ; Hister has 16 species, and 
Saprinus only 9 j Abrceusi is not represented. 
Schiodte (Natiuli. Tidsskr.- 3rd ser. vol. iii. p. 150) indicates the general 
characters of the larvae of this family, and describes particularly those of 
Hister umcolor (Miill.), p. 152, pi. J. figs. 1-26, and Platysoma dcpressuni 
(Fab.), p. 158, pi. 2. figs. 2-5. 
