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COLEOPTERA. 
Beetle larv 80 attacking telegraph posts ; P. de Borre, CE. Ent. Belg. 
xix. p. ix. 
A method of collecting and rearing larvae of wood-feeding beetles 
described ; A. Engel, Feuil. Nat. vi. p. 142. 
Deformities in beetles (Lncanus capreohis with a double left man- 
dible, and another with an abbreviate, stout, and blunted left mandible ; 
Thylacites pilosus with double apical and sub-apical joints to the left 
antenna; Silpha obscura, merely an arrested development of elytra ; 
Aphodius contaminatus with 3 normal tarsi to the left middle leg ; and 
Leptura testacea with double claw- and sub-apical joints to the left hind 
tarsus) ; G. Kraatz, Deutsche E. Z. 1876, pp. 377 & 378, pi. i. figs. 9-14. 
Moequerys’ “ Coleopteres anormaux,” No. x., 20 pis., has not been seen 
by the Recorder (Nouv. et faits, ii. p. 28). 
Natural selection. A structure directly adapted to the preservation 
of the beetle from parasites is discussed in the description of a new 
genus of StaphylinidcG from S. America, and considered to present an 
extensive field in which natural selection may be supposed to operate 
directly. Such protected forms are probably often primitive. [Would 
they not seem, by retaining their original structure, to have escaped any 
alteration by selection or otherwise ?]. D. Sharp, Ent. M. M. xii. 
p. 200. 
Roger’s Hypothesis [Zool. Rec. xii. p. 273] on the natural system and 
descent of Coleoptera^ discussed by G. Schoch, MT. schw. ent. Ges. iv. 
pp. 471 & 472. 
Observations on Bock’s species yet unaccounted for ; G. Kraatz, 
Deutsche E, Z. 1876, p. 169. 
Grimmer’s Coleopteren Steiermark’s. Identification of various species 
contained in this work ; J. Weise, Deutsche E. Z. 1876, pp. 177 & 178. 
CiCINDELIDiE. 
Horn, G. H. The sexual characters of North American Cicindelidce, 
with notes on some groups of Cicindela. Tr. Am. Ent. Soc. v. 
pp. 232-240, pi. i. figs. 18-25 (sexual characters in outline). 
The first of a proposed series of papers, in which the sexual characters 
of N. American genera are to be fully exposed. 
Synoptical descriptive table of French species ; J. Bourgeois, Feuil. 
Nat. vi. pp. 98-101. 
Cicindela schauppi, Horn, 1. c. p. 240, fig., E. Texas ; C. singularis, 
E. de Chaudoir, R. Z. (3) iv. p. 330, Island of Dalak, Red Sea ; C. maino, 
W. Macleay, P. Linn. Soc. N. S. W. i. p. 165, Katow, New Guinea ; C. 
tetrachoides, R. Gestro, Ann. Mus. Genov, viii. p. 514, Hatam ; C. hut- 
toniy T. Broun, Tr. N. Z. Inst. ix. p. 375, Hikuwai, near Tairua, and 
Martin Bay, Otago, New Zealand : spp. nn. 
Carabidje. 
Continuation of the enumeration by P. Pellet of the Carahidee found 
in the Eastern Pyrenees, Faune Entomologique du departement des 
