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ZOOLOGICAL LITERATURK. 
New species : — 
Histei' arenicola, 0, G. Thomson, Skand. Col. ix. p. 894, Scania. 
IHatysoma maryinata and 1\ 10-striatay 0. G. Thomson, 1. c. p. 897 (=P. 
frontalis, auct.) j and F. pullum, Gerstacker, Arch. f. Natiirg. xxxi. p 81, 
Zanzibar. 
Carcinops garhiylkttii, Marseul, Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 4® s»5r. vii. p. 65, 
Brazil. 
Teretrius corticalis, Wollaston, Col. Hesp. p. 81, Cape Verde Islands 
(S. lago). 
Saprinus paivcB, Wollaston, /. e. p. 85, and S. geminatus, Woll. I, c. p. 86, 
Cape Verde Islands. 
Faromalus digitatus, W ollaston, 1. c. p. 88, Cape Verde Islands. 
Faratropus^ testudo, Gerstacker, I, c. p. 32, Zanzibar. 
Phalacrtdae. 
OUhrus hicolor. According to Kawall (Stett. ent. Zeit. 1867, p. 118) the 
larva of this species lives among the seeds of the Dandelion, upon which it 
feeds. 
Fhalacrus aterrimus, sp. n., Wollaston, Col. Hesp. p. 65, Cape Verde Islands. 
Oliht'us gemma, sp. n., Wollaston, I, c, p. 66, and O. notatus, sp. n., Woll. 
ibid.. Cape Verde Islands. 
LiihocruapalUdus, sp. n., Wollaston, 1. c. p. 57, Capo Verde Islands (S. lago). 
NiTIDULIDiE. 
A. Murray has continued his list of the species of this family 
from Old Calabar (Ann. & Mag. N. H. 3rd ser. xix. pp. 167- 
179), in which he refers especially to the following genera : — 
Frometopia (Erichs.), of which he gives the geographical range of 13 
species, 2 only previously described (/. c. p. 168). 
Axyra (Erichs.), with which Galaor (J. Thoms.) is identical, and which, 
according to Murray, stands between Fsilotns and Ischcena {1. c. pp. 169-170). 
In connexion with this genus Murray discusses the means by which the true 
Nitidulidae may be broken up into subordinate groups (see also p. 173), and 
suggests that instead of the two groups admitted by Lacordaire we should 
adopt three, namely Nitidulini, Strongylini, and Lorditini. Six species of the 
genus are known to Murra)'^, 2 of which are here described as new. The 
characters of Axyrahrunnea (Erichs.) and A. (^Galaor) perforata (J. Thoms.) 
are also discussed by Murray (/. c. p. 171). The subgenus Axyrodes is pro- 
posed by Murray for two South American species of the genus. 
Fsilotus (Erichs.). Murray remarks (1. c. pp. 170-171) upon the figure of 
the labium of this genus given by Lacordaire, which, he says, represents that 
organ in a Colastus. He figures the labium in the latter genus and in Fsilotus 
(/. c. p. i71, figs. A, B). 
Fheroeopis (J. Thoms.) is only a subgeniis of Fluty chora (JCrichs.). Its 
species are African: those of the typical subgenus live in South America 
(/. c. pp. 174-175). 
* This name is substituted for Fhylloscelis (Mars.), preoccupied in Bhyn- 
chota. 
