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Chalccmela intermedia, Baly, I c. p. 296, Mysol, Ceram ; C. ruhripushdata, 
Baly, /. c. p. 297, New Guinea j C.nigripennis, Baly, ibid., Waigiou. 
Flagiodera marginata, Baly, I, c. p. 299, New Guinea ; P. pallida, Baly, 
ibid., Amboyna. 
Gallerucides. 
Allard has concluded his monogi’aph of the European Hal- 
ticides (L^Abeille, hi. pp. 321-508). The portion requiring to 
he noticed here includes the genus (Latr.), 16 sp., 1 new, 
and Psylliodes (Lat.), 50 sp., 3 new. A supplement contains 
some notices of species belonging to genera treated of in earlier 
parts of the work. 
Suffi-ian (Arch. f. Naturg. 1867) remarks upon the characters and syno- 
nymy of the following known species of this group : — Galleruca opacipentm 
(J. Buy.) j Diabrotica nme^a^Fab.), hivittata (Fab.), pulchella (Bej.), tho- 
racica (Fab.); Cerotoma (F ab.) ; Luperus malachioules (Chevr.); 
and Blepharida irrorata (Chevr.). 
Gallemca calmariensis (Linn.). Cornelius describes the development of this 
species, Stett. ent. Zeit. 1867, pp. 213-214. 
llaltica aliernaia (111.), var., bred by Walsh from the gall Salieis hrassi- 
coidea. Broc. Ent. Soc. Phil. vi. p. 270. 
Galleruca albicornis (Wiedem.). Forty describes an example wanting the 
left anterior femur (Mitth. naturf. Ges. in Bern, 1867, p. 307). 
On the species of llaltica injurious to the Colza plant in the Canton do 
Vaud, see Forel, Bull. Soc. Vaud. Sci. Nat. ix. pp. 72-73. (See p. 198.) 
New genera : — 
Argosomus, g. n., Wollaston, Col. Ilesp. p. 162. Allied to Sphan'oderma ; 
head and prothorax narrower ; eyes and antennas more approximated ; base of 
elytra broader than prothorax, sinuatod ; tarsi not dilated at base. Sp. A. 
epilachnoides and A, ohscuripennis, sp. n., Woll. 1. c. p. 153, Cape Verde 
Islands. 
Syphaxia, g. n., Baly, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 3rd ser. ii. p. 471. Allied 
to Monocesta ; claws unamied ; body short, very convex. Sp. M. spectanda 
(Clark). 
Chorina, g. n., Baly, 1. c. p. 471. Allied to preceding; body elongate, 
parallel-sided ; claws simple. Sp. Monocesta cincta and obliquenotata (Clark). 
New species : — 
Adimonia celandica (Gyll. MS.), Thomson, Skand. Col. viii. p. 147, 
(Eland. 
Cedomei'a liiurata, Suftrian, Arch. f. Naturg. 1867, p. 300, Cuba. 
Galleruca venustula (IMus. Berol.), Sufliian, 1. c. p. 303, Cuba. 
Galeruca suturalis, Thomson, 1. c. p. 151, Scandinavia. 
Galeruca turcica, Stierlin, Mitth. Schw. ent. Ges. ii. p, 220, Bagdad. 
Diabrotica a^mxdata, Suffrian, 1. c. p. 307, D. impressa, Sulfr. 1. c. p. 309, D. 
relicta (Klug), Suflr. 1. c. p. 310, D. loricata (King), Suflr. 1. c. p. 311, D. cy- 
unospila, Siiffr. 1. c. p. 313, D. semicyanea, Suffr. 1. c. p. 314, Cuba. 
Luperus placidus (Mus. Berol.), Suffrian, /. c. p. 320, Cuba. 
