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ZOOLOGICAL LITERATURE. 
=alb?'eviatus (Boield.) ; P, solitarius (Rosenli.) = (Luc.) j P. ruler 
(Rosenh.) and P. cisti (Clie\T.)=isp{tzyi (Boield.) ; P. sycophanta (111.) and 
P. raptor (Sturm) = (Oliv.), Kiesenwetter also figures P. coarcti^ 
collis (Sturm), pi. I. fig. 7. 
Niptus ylobulus (Boield.) is distinct from P. ylobuhcs (111.), Kies. 1. c. pi. 1. 
fig. 5. 
Stein refers to the observations of Hensel upon the damage done to tobacco 
by Pseudochina serricornis (Fab.) = testaceus (Sturm). Beii. ent. 
Zeitschr. 1867, p. 211. 
Kbaatz remarks that Xylet. testaceus (Redt.) is distinct from the above- 
mentioned species (/. c. note). 
F. Smith describes the ticking of Anobium tessellatum, Ent. M. Mag. iii. 
p. 279. 
New species : — 
Ptinus quercuSf Kiesenwetter, Berl. ent. Zeits, 1867, p. 129, pi. 1. fig. 3, 
Pyi’enees j P. hirticornis, Kiesenw, 1. c. p. 130, pi. 1. fig. 4, Andalusia and 
Madrid. 
Niptus constrictus, Kiesenwetter, I, c. p. 134, pi. 1. fig. 6, Sierra de Cor- 
doba. 
Mich'optinus echinatuSy Wollaston, Col. Hesp. p. 103, Cape Verde Islands. 
Spharicus tubercuUcollis, Wollaston, I, c, p. 105, Cape Verde Islands (S. 
lago). 
Piarus lowei, Wollaston, 1. c. p. 106, Cape Verde Islands (Fogo). 
Notiomimus lineatus, Wollaston, 1. c. p. 108, Cape Verde Islands (S. 
Vicente). 
Xyletinus t&nebricosus, Solsky, Horse Soc. Ent. Ross. v. p. 35, Koslow (East 
Russia). 
Pseudochina obscura, Solsky, 1. c. p. 36, Sarepta. 
Bostrichidae. 
Apate, Murray (Ann. & Mag. N. 1 1. 3rd ser. xx. p. 84) remarks upon the 
confusion existing with regard to the species of this genus, and characterizes 
the following known African species : — A. terebrans (Pall.), p. 84 ; A. muri- 
cata (Fab.), p. 85 (cum Jig.) ; and A. monacha (Oliv.), p. 87. Murray also 
describes and figures Bostrichtcs productus (Imh.), 1. c. p. 90. 
Apate luctuosa (01iv.) = ca/)wma (Linn.), according to Abeille de Perrin, 
Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 4® s^r. vii. p. 70. 
New species : — . 
Apate degenera, Murray, Ann. & Mag. N. II. 3rd ser. xx. p. 87, Old 
Calabar. 
Bostrichus protrudens, klurray, 1. c, p. 88 (cum Jigg.), B. brevicornutus,l^Mvi\ 
1. c. p. 91 (ctun Jigy.), and B. brunneus, Murv. 1. c. p. 92, Old Calabar. 
Bostrychus grayanus, Wollaston, Col. Hesp. p. 109, Cape Verde Islands (S. 
lago), 
Sinoxylon pubescens, Murray, 1. c. p. 93, S. fumatum, Murr. 1. c. p. 94, and 
S. nitidipenne, Murr. ibid., Old Calabar. 
' CiSSIDiE. 
Cis punctidatus occurs at Rannoch, T. Blackburn, Ent. M. Mag. iv. p. 17. 
