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meister in P. L. S. xi. p. 416, which he quotes from Pet. Nouv. No. 69, 
but considers a second publication not superfluous, as he gives a figure, 
which he wrongly says Burmeister does not. The Recorder himself drew 
Burmeister’s figure for the engraver, from that author’s sketch.] 
Amyclius, g. n., F. P. Pascoe, Ann. N. H. (4) xvii. p. 49. General 
structure of Lacon, but with only a very slight trace of the lateral pro- 
sternal grooves. For A. candezii, sp. n., ibid., Pitts Island, New Zealand. 
Adelocera drusa^ sp. n., S. A. de Marseul, L’Ab. 1876, livrn. 4, p. 380, 
Syria. 
Limonius collaris, sp. n., Pascoe, 1. c. p. 49, Auckland, Now Zealand. 
Athous transcaucasicus, p. 474, Tiflis, and epirus, p. 475, Janina, G. 
Stierlin, MT. schw. ent. Ges. iv. ; A. crihratus, S. Colorado and N. New 
Mexico, and simplex, Colorado, J. L. Leconte, in Wheeler’s Ann. Rep. 
Surv. 1876, p. 296 : spp. nn. 
Asaphes (must be united with Corymhites and Athous') saccifer^ sp. n., 
J. L. Leconte, Z. c., N. New Mexico. 
Corymhites velatus, sp. n. (foss.), S. H. Scudder, Bull. U. S. Geol. Surv. 
ii. p. 81, tertiaries of Wyoming. 
Oxygonus (?) mortuus, sp. n. (foss.), id. ibid., White River tertiaries. 
Cebrionid.®. 
Cebrio striati/rons, gracilissimus \gracilimus\ and convexiusculus , 
Morocco, perustus, Hodna, bisJcrensis, Biskra, L. Fairmaire, Pet. Nouv. ii. 
p. 93 ; C. hirundinis, A. Chevrolat, Bull. Soc. Ent. Fr. (5) vi. p. clxxxvi., 
brought by parent birds to a nest of swallows in a house in Algiers 
(see also E. Olivier, Z. c. p. clxxvii.) : spp. nn. 
Telephorid^. 
Eros thoracicus ; larva, and especially the oral organs, described ; the 
mandibles have a vertical action, and the tips are never even approxi- 
mated. H. L. Moody, Psyche, ii. pp. 185-187. 
Lampyris noctiluca in Scotland ; J. Shaw, Nature, xiii. p. 188 ; W. 
McLaurin, tom. cit. p. 208. 
Astychina, g. n., J. O. Westwood, Tr. E. Soc. 1876, p. 494. Allied to 
Podabrus, but the antennas in one sex [queried as the female, and in any 
case only a sexual character] have the two terminal joints produced into 
a remarkable prehensile apparatus, different from anything noticed in 
the insect world [this is only intended to refer to the apical position of 
the apparatus, as the basal joints of $ Malachius are somewhat analogous]. 
For A. flavicollis, pi. ii. fig. 2, and funebris, fig. 4, Dorei, mcerens, fig. 3, 
New Guinea, spp. nn., id. Z. c. p. 495. 
MalthacodeSy g. n., C. O. Waterhouse, Ann. N. H. (4) xviii. p. 116. 
Resembles Haplocnemus, and in the maxillary palpi approaching Pelcy- 
phorus, but with basal joint of tarsi elongate. For M. pictus^sp. n., ibid., 
Rodriguez Island. 
Chauliognathus pristinus, sp. n. (foss.), S. H. Scudder, Bull. U. S. Geol. 
Surv. ii. p. 81, Colorado tertiaries. 
