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INSECTA, COLEOPTERA. 
Nouy. et Faits, p. cix j from Mont Cenis, by Donzel, Pet. Nouv. no. (50, p, 241 ; 
from Turin, by Baudi, Bull. Ent. Ital. iv. p. 367 ; from Trieste, by Bertolini, 
ibid, p. 371; from the Valle di Sole, Trentino, id. ibid. pp. 109-118 j from 
Silesia, by E. Schwartz, B. E. Z. xvi. pp. 163-156; from Berlin and Som- 
uiorfeldby J.Weise, ibid. pp. 167-160; from Eiognitz, by Oerhardt, «W.p. 160; 
from Kiinii^sborg, by (1. Ozwaliua, tVuV/. p. 161 ; from namburg,hy W. Koltzo, 
ibid,, and II. Bmithin, ibid, p. 162 ; from Syria, by Auzoux, Nouv. et Faits, 
pp. cvi, cx, cxiii, cxix, cxxvii ; and from Buenos Aires, by Burmeister, S. E. Z. 
xxxiii. p. 227. 
On leaf-mining Coleoptera in Canada : Chambers, Canad. Ent. iv. p. 123. 
On Coleoptera in birds’ nests : E. C. Rye, Ent. Ann. 1873, p. 7. In flood- 
refuse : G. 0. Champion, Ent. M. M. viii. p. 270. 
Instances of sudden and unaccountable disappearance of species (e. g. 
Gonioctena pallida, Orsodacna cerasi, and Agathidium varians) from localities 
where they were formerly abundant are recorded by E. A. Waterhouse, Ent. 
M. M. viii. p. 206. 
Bethune (Canad. Ent. iv. pp. 31, 62, 93, 111, 161, 175, 196, 231) con- 
tinues his reproductions of the descriptions of species from Kirby’s ^ Fauna 
Boreali- Americana,’ with synonymic and other notes (Buprestidce to Hal- 
tieidce^. 
Diagnoses of new species from Italy described in various recent publica- 
tions are compiled by Biccioli & Bargagli, Bull. Ent. Ital. iv. pp. 306-316. 
Barts i.-v. of a 3rd edition of Iledtenbacher’s Fauna Austriaca. Dio 
Kiifer” {Cicindelidce — Dasdllidce) have been published in 1871 and 1872. 
Vienna: 8vo. 
The Rev. J. G. Wood has published a small introductory treatise on Com- 
mon British Beetles, pp. 140, pis. 12, in outline, and woodcuts, giving a gene- 
ral view of the typo species. These are treated in a popular and untrustworthy 
manner. 
The characters of the underside &c. used by Thomson are pointed out by 
Bedel, Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. (6) ii. p. 396, and by Ch. Brisout, ibid. Bull. p. xxiii 
et seq. 
On collecting and preserving beetles, cf. Rye, Sc. Goss. no. 91, pp. 146-161. 
CiCINDELIDiE. 
Oxygonia. H. W. Bates, Ent. M. M. viii. p. 237, refers to the affinities of 
this genus, the members of which seem to occur on mossy stones in the beds 
of cold rapid streams (at Ecuador). The bispinose apices of the femora ap- 
pear not to be constant ; the acuminate apex of the elytra is only found in the 
<5 of some species ; and the labrum seems only to have one central tooth. 
Other characters are briefly stated, and 12 species are noticed, fresh localities 
&c. being given for O. schoenherri, Mann., prodiga, Er., vuilhfroyi, Chaud., 
dentipennis. Germ., and albitcenia and cyanopis. Bates. 
rhyllodroma delia, Thoms., is an Oxygonia, possibly O. prodiga, Er. ; id. 
1. c. p. 287. 
Cicindela compressicornis, Boh., is probably a Bostrichophorus, Chaud., of 
which the peculiar characters are possibly sexual : id. ibid. 
