coleoptbrA. 365 
Melolontha vulgaris. Kawall (Stett. ent. Zeit 1807, p, 119) notices a 
peculiar variety of this species. 
Mhizotrogus suturalis (Luc). Ernest Cotty describes the mode in which he 
collected this and other species in Algeria. M4m. Soc. Linn, du Nord Fr. 
1866, pp. 167-168. 
Perty (Mitth. naturf. Ges. in Bern, 1867, p. 305, fig. 9) describes and 
figures a monstrous Melol. vulgaris^ var. hippocastanif having the left inter- 
mediate leg reduced almost to half the normal length, and the tarsus with 
only three joints ; and one of Rhizotrogus ater^ with the left hind tarsus 
abbreviated fp. 306). 
Girard (Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 4® sdr. vi. pp. 571-676) describes and recom- 
mends the moveable fowl-houses invented by Giot, for the purpose of con- 
veying poultry into the fields to destroy the larvae of Melolontha. 
New genera : — 
Acratus^ g. n., Horn, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc. i. p. 166. Allied to Chnau- 
nanthns) palpi long, last joint fusiform; antennae 10-jointed; pygiditim ex- 
posed. Sp. A.Jlavipennis, sp. n., Horn, 1. c. p. 166, Arizona. 
Plectrodes, g. n. Horn, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc. i. p. 166. Allied to llypo- 
tricliia (Lee.) ; tarsal claws dissimilar, the anterior with a long siibbasal 
tooth ; maxillary palpi long, last joint large, ovate, curved, deeply channelled 
outside. Sp. P. pubescens, sp. n., Horn, 1. c. p. 167, California. 
CyphochiluSf g. n., C. O. Waterhouse, Ent. M. Mag. iv. p. l4l. Allied to 
Leitcopholis ) maxillae short, truncate at apex, divided into three unequal 
lobes ; labrum unequally divided by a notch ; meritum bitruncate, the trun- 
catures unequal; clypeus distinctly separated. Known sp. Mel, candidus 
(Oliv.) and L. niveosquamosa (Blanch.). New sp. C. tricolor., C. 0. Wat. 1. c. 
p. 142, Siam; G. /armosws (Reiche, MS.), C. 0. Wat. l.c. p. 143, North 
China; and C. apicalisf 0. 0. Wat. 1. c. p. 144, China. 
New species : — 
Exopholis lacordairei, C. 0. Waterhouse, Z. c. p. 146, Borneo. 
Rachydema decipiens, Fairmaire, Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 4® S&’. vii» p. 396, Mo- 
rocco. 
Rhizotrogus. Fairmaire (Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 4e s6r. vii.) describes the fol- 
lowing new species of this genus from Morocco and Algeria : — R. ( Geotrogu^') 
olcesii, p. 396 ; R. asperiventris, p. 397 ; R. nitidiventris and R. politus, 
p. 398 ; and R. tenuispina, p. 399. 
Dasydera cooperi, Horn, 1. c. p. 164, California. 
Coniopholis elephas, Gerstacker, 1. c. p. 40, and C. melolonthoides^ Gerst. 1. c. 
p. 41, Zanzibar. 
Hypopholis conspurcata, Gerstacker, 1. c. p. 42, Zanzibar. 
Schizo7iycha rorida, Gerstacker, 1. c. p. 43, Zanzibar. 
Trochalus chrysomelinus, Gerstacker, 1. c, p. 43, T. corinthia and T. stdei- 
pemiis, Gerst. 1. c. p. 44, Zanzibar. 
Serica aherrans, Gerstacker, 1. c. p. 45, Zanzibar. 
Hut elides, 
Anisoplia austriaca (Herbst) occurred in 1867 in great quantities in the 
Banat, and inflicted much injury on the ivheat-crops. Pelikan, Verb, zool.- 
bot. Ges. in Wien, xvii. pp. 693-696, See also Kiinstler, I c, pp. 922-024, 
