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the occurrence of a Stylopized Andrena in Finland, gives a general account of 
the history of the Strepsiptera, and discusses their position in the system. 
He takes no notice of Gerstacker’s opinion on the latter subject. 
L. VON IIeyden publishes (Berl. ent. Zeitschr. 1867, p. 398) some observa- 
tions on the occurrence of species of Xenos in exotic Hymenoptera. He has 
detected larva) in Eumenes tinctor (Christ.), E, fcncstndis (Sauss.), and Ody- 
nerm chloroticua (Spin.), and possesses two specimens of a Xenos bred from 
the abdomen of the North American Sphex ichneumoneus (Linn.). The latter 
are not well enough preserved to allow them to be described, but they are 
about one-half larger than X.peckii (Germ.), which lives in Polistes fuscata, 
F. Smith (Proc. Ent. Soc. ^867, p. Ixxxviii) notices the occurrence of a 
species of Xenos (?), parasitic on Paragia decipiens (Shuck.), in South Aus- 
tralia. 
G. A. J. Rothney (Ent. M. Mag. iii. p. 235) notices a case of a male Sty- 
lops emerging from an Andrena five months after the death of the latter. 
Meloid^e. 
Cantharis vesicatoria, Fermouze has published an inaugiu’al 
thesis (see p. 207) on this Insect, in which he briefly describes 
its natural history, and enters at greater length upon its phar- 
maceutical history and properties. He also notices the Insects 
and Acari which live in the Cantharides in the shops. Of the 
latter he enumerates Tyroghji^hus longior (Gerv.), T. siculus^ sp. n., 
Glyciphagus cursoi' (Gerv.), G. spinipes (Koch), and Cheyletiis 
eruditus (Lat.). In his plate I he represents the insect with its 
young larva and some of the Coleoptera which feed upon the 
dried Cantharides. The remaining plates are devoted to the 
Acarina. 
On the synonymy of Mylabris fuesslini, see Bull. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1867, 
pp. Ixi-lxii. 
F. Low notices the occurrence of the minute young larvflo of 3Ielo<i upon 
Andrena nitida (K.), and also, on the authority of Bauer, on hairy flies {Mero- 
don, Microdon, Volucella, &c.). Verb, zcol.-bot. Ges. in Wien, xvii. p. 749. 
Phodaga alticeps (Lee.). Habits noticed by Horn, Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil, 
vi. p. 293. Horn (1. c. p. 296) indicates the differences between the cf and 
$ of this species, and figures the head and legs of the S • 
The vesicant Beetles {Lytta, Epicanta, &c.) of California live chiefly on 
species of Astrogalus. Lytta vulnerata occurs on composite plants, llorn, 
Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil. vi. p. 292. 
Cysteodemus armatus (Lee.). Habits noticed by Horn, Proc. Ent. Soc. 
Phil. vi. p. 292. 
Teyrodera erosa (Lee.). Habits noticed by Horn, ibid. 
3£ylahris '^^-punctata (Linn.). Perty describes an example with the left 
antenna abbreviated and deformed. Mitth. naturf. Ges. in Bern, 1867, 
p. 306. 
• CuRCULIONIDiE. 
Seidlitz (Berl. ent. Zeits. 1867, pp. 431-434) indicates the following syno- 
nyms among described species of this family: — Cneorhinus gracilis (C. Bris.) 
dispar (Graclls) j C, baidnyi (0, ‘Bvis.') = carinirostris (Boh.) j Stropho- 
