coLeopteeA. 
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crcesus (Kies, iiec Vill.). A. chlot'ocephdla (iiiViC.)=:Yar. cichoHi'^ A, inidas 
(Kies.)=:crcB5!«5 (Vill.) ; ond A. signaticollis (Kryn.)=var. nitidula. Poly- 
cesta includes only P. cegijptiaca (Gmel.), found in Algeria ; And Ptosima re- 
ceives one new species. Acmceodera, according to the synoptical table, 
includes thirty-nine species, of which fourteen are described in detail ; six of 
the species are new. Of thirteen species included in the catalogue of European 
Coleoptera the names do not appear in this table. Additional species are A. 
cisti and fracta (Woll.), elevata and polita (King), and arabica (Lap. & Gory). 
Juiodides, 
Jidodis. The following eight new species are described by De Marseul 
(L’Abeille, tome iii.) : — J. cupreoccslata^ 1. c. p. 53, from Armenia ; J. rUginotaj 
1. c. p. 64, from Anatolia J J. lincigera, 1. c. p. 02, from the Caucasus and 
Syria ; j. ampUata, 1. c. p. 66, from Armenia ; J. luteogramma^ 1. c. p. 67, 
from Syria ; J. ramifera, 1. c. p. 69, from Persia, J. 4:-costa, I, c. p. 71, froni 
Persia ; J. armeniacdy 1. c. p. 80, from Syria and Persia. 
Chalcophorides. 
Ueyrolle (Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg. tome viii. p. 15) describes Chrgsodema 
aurifera (Lap. & Gory), C. impressicollis (L. & G.), Buprestis chrgsoccelis 
(Boisd.), Chalcophora stevensii (Thoms.), and C. moiiensis (Thoms.) as va- 
rieties of 0. {Btipi'estis) arrogans (Boisd. ); According to the same author, 
C. arrogans (L. & G)= C. fucata (Dej.),' 7 c. p. 17. 
New genera : — 
Chry so denudes. Deyrolle (Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg. p. 11) inain- 
lains, in opposition to Lacordaire, that the genus Chrysodema 
(Cast. & Gory) is not only distinct from Chalcophora, but really 
forms a subordinate group [Chry so denudes) consisting of seven 
genera, of the characters of which he gives the following tabular 
analysis : — 
I. First segment of abdomen without a projecting lamina. 
A. Scutellum touching prothorax. 
1. Meso- and metasternum not gibbous. 
a. Tarsi and antennae more or less metallic, never testaceous or 
light brown. 
* Prothorax With a smooth median line ; first segment of abdo- 
men depressed or slightly hollow in the middle ; prosternum 
strongly furrowed 1. Chrysodema. 
t Prothorax finely furrowed in the middle ; prosternum and first 
abd. segment not furrowed 2. Iridotjenia, g. n. 
§ Prothornx broadly furrowed ; prosternum and first abd. seg- 
ment finely furrowed 3. ClIALCOTJENIA, g. n.^ 
b. Tarsi and antennae testaceous or light brown. 
4. Paracupta, g. n. 
2. Meso- and metasternum gibbous between the intermediate legs j 
prosternum furrowed to its anterior margin. 
5. PleioNa, g. n.® 
^ Type G. lamhcrti (Hope) from Australia. 
^ Type C. lay anti (Guer.), from the Marquesas. 
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