COLEOrTEKA. 
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Palpicornia. 
Wollaston (Col. Hesp. p. 40, note) remarks upon the characters of Berosus, 
in which he says the antennm are only 7-jointed ; he also regards Stcrno- 
lophns (Sol.) as only a section of Hydrous (1. c. p. 4G, note). 
An example of Sphm'idium hcemorrhomn (Gyll.), with the thorax half the 
usual length and abrupt in front, is described by Pert}', Mitth. naturf. Ges. 
in Bern, 1867, p. 306. 
ParacymuSf g. n., 0. G. Thomson, Skand. Col. ix. p. 120. Allied to 
Hydrohius ; posterior femora smooth ; prostornum with an elevated median 
line; sutural stria of elytra abbreviated anteriorly, Sp. Hydr, ameus 
(Geim.). 
Ilydroxenus, g. n., Wollaston, Col. llesp. p. 40. Allied to Laccohius and 
Berosus'^ antennae 7-jointed (as in Berosus according to Wollaston) ; tibiaj 
robust, setulose externally, posterior siibarcuate. Sp. II. subpictus, Sp. n., 
Woll. 1. c. p. 41, and H. minor , sp. n., Woll. 1. c. p. 42, Cape Verde Islands 
(S. lago). 
New species : — 
Hydrohius phalacroides, Wollaston, 1. c, p. 47, Capo Verde Islands. 
Ctrcyon Jimicola, Wollaston, 1. c. p. 48, and C. putricola, Woll. 1. c. p. 40, 
Cape Verde Islands. 
Cercyon Jiguratum, Gerstacker, Arch. f. Naturg. xxxi. p. 26, Zanzibar. 
Cryptopleurum sulcatum, Wollaston, 1. c. p. 49, Cape Verde Islands. 
Cryptopleurum vaucherii, Toumier, Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 4® ser. vii. p. 566, 
Geneva. 
Staphyunidas. 
Stein records the discovery in Brazil by Hensel of a small species of this 
family which lives upon the skin of living opossums, running to and fro 
with great agility, in the manner of the Nyctetibiee. Berl. ent. Zeitsch. 1867, 
p. 211. 
Aleo char ides. 
Zonoptilus (Motsch.). This genus is characterized in detail by Solsky 
(Horse Soc. Ent. Boss. iv. p. 85), who also fully describes the species Z.pcn- 
nifcr (Motsch.), I. c. p. 86, and a new species, and characterizes Coprophihts 
selhda (Schm.), which ho refers to the same genus. 
Fairmaire redescribes Myrmedonia festiva (Saulcy) and Proteinus olivieri 
(Saulcy), from Bone in Algeria. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 4® ser. vii. pp. 393, 394. 
Abeille be Perrin remarks (Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 4® s^r. vii. p. 69) that the 
Myrmedonia aptcra (Peyr.), recorded in the catalogues of European Coleo- 
ptera, is founded on the tirst word in Peyron’s description 5f M. erichsonii ! 
Rye (Ent. M. Mag. iii. p. 189) affirms the identity of Thiasophila inqui- 
Una (Mark.) with Euryusa kirbii (Jans.), and notices the habit of the insects. 
Myrmedotiia plicata (Erichs.). Its occurrence in Britain noticed by Jan- 
son, Proc. Ent. Soc. 1868, p. 125. 
New genera : — 
Kcmatoscelis, g. n., Wollaston, Col. Hesp. p. 231. Allied to Oligota ; para- 
glosspc 0 ; last joint of max. palpi scarcely shorter than penultimate ; legs 
