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ZOOLOGICAL LITERATURE. 
Br achy derides. 
Rye (Ent. M. Mag. vol. i.) has translated the analytical tables and some 
other parts of Allard’s paper on Sitones, as far as they relate to British species. 
He has also added a few notes of his own. 
Rye remarks on the minuteness of the differences between Sitmes cine- 
rascens (Schdnh.) and S. camhricus (Steph.); ibid. p. 266. 
Situms medicaymis (Redt.) is referred by Dietrich {1. c, p. 173) to S. sulci- 
frons (Thunb.). 
Sitones hituhercxdatics (Motsch.) = >S'. ocellatus (Kiister), according to Kirsch, 
Berl. ent. Zeitschr. 1865, p. 123. 
Kellner (Berl. ent. Zeitschr. 1866, p. 1 24) calls attention to the distinctive 
characters of Brachyderes incanus and lepidojpterus. 
New species : — 
Strophosomm curvipeS) Thomson, 1. c. p. 138, from Scania. 
^ Strophosomus erinaceuSy Chevrolat, Rev. et Mag. Zool. 1866, p. 394, from 
the Escurial ; and S. fagiy Chevr. ibid., note, from Corsica. 
Conotrachelm puncticollisy Walsh (Prairie Farmer, 1863), Proc. Bost. Soc. 
Nat. Hist. ix. p. 310, and C. cratcegiy Walsh ibid., 1. c. p. 311, from Illinois, 
and the second from Chicago. 
Bat'ypeithes meridionals (Godart, MS.), Miilsant & Rey, 1. c. p. 28, from 
Narbonne. 
Ilomapterus affinky Chevrolat, 1. c. p. 396, fi'oni Reinosa. 
Bolydrusus kaJiriiy Kirsch, Berl. ent. Zeitschr. 1865, p. 122, from the Monte 
Baldo. — P. pilosidiiSy Chevrolat, 1. c. p. 396, from Valladolid ,* P. villosidtis, 
Chevr. ibid., fr-om Viala. — P. ? elegansy Couper, Canad. Nat. & Geol. n. s. 
vol. ii. p. 63, from Quebec. 
Otiorhynchides. 
Seidlitz, in the introduction to his monograph of the genus 
Peritelus (Berh^’ent. Zeitschr. 1865), contrasts the general classifi- 
cations of this family adopted by Schonherr and Lacordaire, and 
remarks upon the value of certain characters which have been 
regarded as of importance in distinguishing particular groups 
and genera. One of these is the union or separation of the 
tarsal claws, employed by Lacordaire for the separation of the 
Peritelides and Laparocerides from the true Otiorhynchides and 
the Trachyphloiides. Seidlitz states that in Trachyphloeus two 
species known to him have united claws, and in Peritelus six 
species have the claws separate. In a species of Cathormiocerus 
the claws of the four anterior tarsi are united, and those of the 
hind pair separate. The author gives the folloAving schematic 
table of the thirty-three genera belonging to the tribe Otiorhyn- 
chides of Lacordaire. 
1 a. Sutura inter segmenta abd. primum et secundum recta : Cahyptops, 
SciohkiSy PhlycthmSy leaniris, Catereckts, Ilolcorliinus, Glyptosomus. 
1 b. Sutura inter segmenta abd. priniimi et secundum plus minusve ar- 
(piata. 
