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The author gives 19 excellent and highly magnified plates, in outline, of 
the most important portions of the external anatomy (including the cibarian 
organs) of all the genera, and 11 of half-bodies of all the described species j: 
and reproduces in Latin the original descriptions of former authors, adding the 
revised synonymy in each case. 
He characterizes the following new genera and species [»o comparative 
diagnostic characters are given for the former, the obsorvationa boro made 
being from the synoptical table, p, 69] : — 
Euryptiliumf p. 03. Allied to Nossidkttn, but with the metasternum 
reaching the sides of the body. Trichopteryx saxonioa^ Gillm. ; pi. xx. fig. 3, 
Thro&ddium, p. 64, pi. iii. Diflers from Nanosella, Mots., in the elongate 
posterior angles of the pronotum. 2\. gertnainiy pi. xx. fig. 4, fairtnak'ii, fig. 5, 
p. 67, Chili. 
MotschuUkium, p. 72, pi. v. Differs from its ally MUlidium in having 
the pronotum not constricted at the base. 31. sinuaticoUe, p. 74, pi. xx. fig. 9, 
N. America. 
3Iicroptilium, p. 107, pi. x. Allied to Nephanes, but with long elytra and 
simple posterior coxee. Trichopteryx pulcheUa, Allib. ; pi. xxiii. fig. 4. 
Aetinopteryx, p. 148, pi. xiii. Differs from Pteryx in its greatly dilated 
pronotum, and in its posterior coxae being widely remote. Trichopteryx 
fudcola, Allib. j pi. xxiii. fig. 12 (and A, australis^ sp. n., Matthews, Cist. Ent, 
pt. V. p. 93, Swan River, Australia). 
PtinellodcSf p. 168, pi. xvii. Allied to Trichopteryx^ but with the posterior 
coxa) exceedingly remote, and the mesosternum but slightly keeled. Ptilium 
testaceum, Lee. (nea Heer), renamed lecontii] pi. xxiii. fig. 8. 
Ptenidium kraatzi, p. 79, pi. xxix. fig. 1, North Britain, mannei'heimi, p. 83, 
fig. 2, North America. 
Ptilium oi'oaticum^ p. 103, pi. xxii. fig. 7, Austria, sharpi, p. 101, fig. 9, Van- 
couver’s Island, p. 102, fig. 11, France. 
3fcphanes meridionalis, p. 174, pi. xxx. fig. 1. Venezuela. 
Trichopteryx auhm, pi. xxiv. fig. 1, motschulakii, fig. 2,p. 117, Chili, rdchiij 
fig. 7, p, 119, Caracas, wenckeri^ p. 126, pi. xxix. fig. 14, Brazil, diffinis, pi. xxv. 
fig. 13, N, America, A i, fig. 14, Vancouver’s Island, p. 132, henrid, p. 136, 
pi. xxvi, fig. 6, Vancouver’s Island, marseidi, p. 137, fig. 9, France, alliberti, 
p. 139, fig. 13, Caracas, mllcd^ p. 143, pi. xxix. fig. 10, Caracas (?= T. fenestrata^ 
Gillm.), homii p. 176, pi. xxx. fig. 6, Arizona. 
Pteryx duvalij p. 164, pi. xxix. fig. 7, North America. 
Ptenidium laticolle, sp. n., Hochhuth, Bull. Mosc. xlv. 2, p. 214, Kiew 
(? z=nitidiim, Bris., Qiec Ileer). 
Nossidium scaphidiifortnej sp. n., id. 1. c. p. 215, Kiew. 
Histeridas. 
Saprinus krinickii, Kryn., ?—nitidtdus, var., p. 224 ; S. vireseens, var. n. 
violaceus Q — aztirescens, Stev.), S. Russia, p. 226 j S. conjungensy Payk., 
var. n. micansy Podolia, p. 228 j S. rugicepsy Dufts., observations on specific 
yaliie. Hochhuth, Bull. Mosc. xlv. 2. 
