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ZOOLOGICAL LITERATURE. 
Ceuthorhynchides, 
Cociiodes imnciiger. Kawall (Stett. ent. Zeit. 1867, pp. 117-118) describes 
the metamorphoses' of this species, the larva of which lives in the receptacle 
of the dandelion (Taraxacum officinale). 
Marmoropus besseri (Schdnh.). Letzner describes the habits and transfor- 
mations of this species. Jahresb. schles. Ges. vaterl. Cult, xliv. pp. 170-172. 
Ceuthorhynchus. Rye (Ent. M. Mag. iv. pp. 66, 67) notices the species in- 
habiting Sisymhnum officinale. See also a note by Ilislop (1. c. p. 112). 
Ceuto7'hynchus versicolor, sp. n., Brisout, Cat. Col. Alsace, p. 131, Alsace, 
Frankfort ; C. eiiphoi'hice, sp. n., Bris. 1. c. p. 132, Alsace, Frankfort. These 
species are also recorded as British by Rye, Ent. Ann. 1868, pp. 71, 72. 
Ceuthoi'hynchus harnevillei, sp. n., Grenier, Bull. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1866, p. Ixv, 
Pyrenees. 
Baridiides, 
Baridius stdcipennis, sp. n. (Bris.), Heyden, Berl. ent. Zeitsch. 1867, p. 380, 
Frankfort •, B. fallax sp. n. (Bris.), Heyden, ibid., Frankfort. 
Calandrides. 
Protocerius Icetus, sp. n., Vollenhoven, Tijdschr. v. Ent. 2^« ser. i. p. 228, 
pi. 12. fig. 1. Celebes. 
Sitophilus granarius. On mischief done by this species, see KUnstler, 
Verb, zool.-bot. Ges. in Wien, xvii. pp. 928-930. 
Cossonides. 
Geoi'hynchus, g. n., Roelofs, Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg. x. p. 251. Affinities un- 
certain j rostrum slightly constricted in the middle ; scrobes entire, arched ; 
antennee short, robust, median, scape very short, funiculus of six joints, 1 long- 
est and stoutest, club scarcely articulated ; eyes very low, transversely oval j 
scutellum scarcely visible ; legs compressed j tarsi narrow, joint 4 longer 
than 1, not bifid at apex, with two weak parallel claws in anterior, and a 
a single stronger claw in the intermediate tarsi ; segments 1 and 2 of abdo- 
men soldered together. Sp. O. 'mortetii, sp. n.. Reel. 1. c. p. 262, Montevideo. 
New species : — 
Bhyncholus euphorbiarum, Wollaston, Col. Hesp. p. 119, Cape Verde Islands 
(S. Autao). 
Phlceophagus ohestdus, Wollaston, 1. c. p. 120, Cape Verde Islands (S. Vi^ 
cente). 
Phlceophagus variabilis, Crotch, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1867, p. 387, Azores. 
Pentatemnus affinis, Wollaston, 1. c. p. 122, Cape Verde Islands (S. Vicente), 
Mesites hesperus, Wollaston, 1. c. p. 123, Cape Verde Islands. 
SCOLYTIDAS. 
Tomicides. E'errari (Forst- und baumzuchtscliadlichen Bor- 
kenkafer) has published a valuable summary of the genera and 
European* species* of this group, which he limits in accordance 
* Some new exotic species are described, and known] species are referred 
by the author to their genera in his system. 
