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ZOOLOGICAL LlTISKATUllE. 
Latridius cordaticollis (A.v\i€)=.L. testaceus (Steph.) according to G. R. 
Crotch, Entomologist, ii. p. 179. 
Telmatophilus. G. II. Crotch (Entomologist, ii. pp. 209, 210) publishes a 
revision of the British species of this genus, five in number, including a 
newly discovered species, T. brevicollis (Aub6), and T. schonherri (Gyll.). 
The following known species of this family are recorded as British : — - 
Monotonia quadrifoveolata (Aube) by Crotch, Entom. ii. p. 179 ; Crypto- 
phayus serratus (Gyll.) by Crotch, 1. c. p. 210 j Atomaria diluta (Erichs.) by 
Hislop, Eut. M. Mag. ii. p. 139 ; A. harani (Bris.) by Bye, Ent. M. Mag. ii. 
p. 168 j A. impressa (Erichs.) by Sharp, Ent. M. Mag. ii. p. 167 j Lathridius 
Jiliformis (Gyll.) by Young, Ent. M. Mag. i. p, 260; and Corticaria curta 
(Woll.), under the name of truncatella (Mann.), by Brown, 1. c. p. 244. 
G. B. Crotch remarks on Monotonia 4t-foveolata (Aube) and M. rnfa 
(Bedt.) as British species. Entomologist, ii. p. 179. 
Parfitt publishes some remarks on Anommatus I'^i-striatus. Ent. M. Mag. 
ii. p. 13. 
Wollaston publishes some notes on the occurrence oi Anommatus \2-stri- 
atus (IMUU.) in Devonshire, and on its systematic position. Ibid. i. pp. 246- 
247. 
Corticaria gihhosa (Hbst.). Dietrich (/. c. p. 112) records his having bred 
this species from heads of clover, containing also Apion yracilipes and a spe- 
cies of Cecidomyia. He could not ascertain whether its larvae fed upon the 
plant or upon the larvae of the other insects. 
Power records the capture of Atomaria fcrruyinca in an old tree perforated 
by the larvae of Cossus and inhabited by a colony of Formica fidiyinosa. 
He thinks it may be an Ants’-nest Beetle, as he took other specimens by 
sweeping in the vicinity of an ants’ nest. Entomologist, ii. p. 323. 
Atomaria linearis (Steph.) is noticed by Taschenberg (Wirbell. Thiere, &c. 
p. 260) as injurious to Beet. 
Brewer records the occurrence of Corticaria truncatella (Mann.) at Wor- 
thing. Proc. Ent. Soc. 1866, p. 81. 
Setaria, g. n., Mulsant and Bey, Ann. Soc. Linn. Lyon, tom. x. p. 1. Allied 
to Ci'yptopJiagus ; form more convex and cylindrical ; club of antennae of two 
joints. Sp. 8. sericea, Muls. Sc Bey, 1. c. p. 2, from Hyeres. 
Merophysia orientalis, sp. n. (Peyron, MS.), Saulcy, Ann. Soc. Ent. Er. 4® 
s^r. tom. iv. p. 422, front Oaramania ; 31. carmelitana, sp. n., Saulcy, 1. c. p. 423, 
from Palestine. 
Cryptophayus impressus, sp. n., Wollaston, Col. Atl., App. p. 22, from 
Teneriffe. 
Atomaria laticollis, sp. n., Wollaston, 1. c. p, 22, from Teneriffe ; A. venusta, 
Woll. 1. c. p. 23, and A. hidhosa, Woll. 1. c. p. 24, from Gomera. 
Metophthalmus ferrugineus and encaustics^ sp. n., Wollaston, 1. c. p. 26, from 
the Canaries. 
Dermestid^e, 
Kiesenwetter maintains, in opposition to Gerstacker, that 
By turns belongs to the himily Nitidulidce^ and indicates several 
tarsal characters, such as the small size of the fourth and con- 
