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tlie names Sarothropus and Cyphoyenia for subgeneric groups. Thus group I. 
SAROTHnoPUS includes A. depi'essa (Zubk.) = yihha (Menetr.) ; group II. 
Lechiiiomus a. limbaia (Fisch.), A. lucifuga (Adams) = A. aurita (MeiuSir., 
Kr. nec Pall.), and a new species; group III. Cyphogenia A. fanesta 
{¥didi.')-\-ruy{pennis and sepulchralis (Fald., Kr.), A. chinensis (Fald.) ; 
A. gihha angustata and zahlotzkii (Zubk.), A. aurita (P&\l.) = trim- 
cata (Gehl.)=C. zablotzkii (Kv.). 
Akts biemrtij sp. n., Morawitz, 1. c. p. 27, Herat ; A. cratii *, sp. n., Mora- 
witz, /. c, p. 40 aurita f M^n^tr. = C, truncata, Kraatz nec Gebl.), Kisil-Kum 
Steppe and Lake Indersk. 
Scaurides, 
Scaxirm variolosuSf sp. n., Wollaston, Col, Hesp. p. 178, Cape Verde 
Islands (Fogo). 
Blaptides, 
Eleodes. The Californian species, when disturbed, elevate the hinder part 
of the body until they stand almost vertically. When handled, they emit an 
offensive oily fluid from the anus, which stains the fingers. Horn, Proc. 
Ent. Soc. Phil. vi. p. 292. 
Blaps similis (Fab.). An example with the right hind tibia doubled and 
the accessory tibia furnished with 2 tarsi is noticed by H. Fuss, Berl. ent. 
Zeits. 1867, p. 407. 
Asidides, 
Asida rolphii, sp. n., Fairmaire, Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 4e sdr. yii. p. 404, Mo- 
rocco j A. obsoleta, sp. n., Fairm. 1. c. p. 405, Algeria ; A. olcesii, sp. n., 
Fairm. ibid., Morocco ; A. abrupta, sp. n., Fairm. 1. c. p. 406, Constantine. 
Pimeliides, 
Pimelia msignis, sp. n., Fairmaire, Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 4“ S(5r. vii. p. 407, 
Mogador. 
Molurides, 
Sepidium uncinatmn and xoagneri (Erichs.). Ernest Cotty notices the mode 
of occurrence of these species in Algeria. Mem. Soc. Linn, du Nord de Fr. 
1866, p. 171. 
Sepidium tuberculatum (Klug). Perty (Mitth. naturf. Ges. in Bern, 1867, 
p. 807, and fig. 10) describes and figures an example with the left antenna 
cleft. 
Pedinides. 
Ccnoscelis, g. n., Wollaston, Col. Hesp. p. 179. Allied to Platyscelis (?) ; 
last joint of labial palpi very broad, subliorizontal, elongate oval, flattened and 
tabular above, convex beneath ; joint 1 of posterior tarsi very long, linear. 
Sp. C. tibialis j sp. n., Woll. 1. c. p. 180, Cape Verde Islands. 
Opatrides, 
3Ielanocomaf g. n., Wollaston, Col. Hesp. p. 181. Allied to Trichosternum ; 
prosternal lobe horizontal, thickened and a little produced behind ; abdo- 
See p. 203. 
