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nerve of wings double, discoidal nerve simple. P. schmtmi, ibid. pi. vii. figs. 
6-9, Corfu, parasitic on Odynerus parietum\ and P. heydmi and klugi^ 
Saund. 
Paraxenos[-nus], p. 46. Branches of antennae distorted, swollen ; basal 
cubitus of 3rd joint rather prominent, rectangularly recurved; both alar nerves 
double. P. erhen, pi. vii. figs. 6 k 13-15, parasitic on Laura peregrina, and P. 
corcyricus, on Odynerus spinipes, Corfu, p. 46 j also Xmus sphecidarum^ Buf. 
(wrongly renamed sieholdi, because other species are parasitic on members of 
the Sphegid(B)y and X. westwoodi, Templeton. 
Cantharid^e. 
Meloides. 
Meloe. Motschoulsky, Bull. Mosc. xlv. 2, p. 48, indicates and names, 
without fully describing, the following species as new : — M. strigosa, Kam- 
schatka (y—violacea^ yBirS), p'olifei'icornis, Georgia, smdpticornis, Nicaragua, 
opaca, tropical America. 
Meloe cyanea, Mills., referred with some reserve to Britain : E. C. Rye, 
Ent. M. M. viii. p. 248. Further British locality for the insect mentioned, by 
C. G. Rotheram-Websdale, ibid. p. 288. Connecting links between it and 
M. proscarabceus recorded from the Isle of Man by Rye, ibid. 
Meloe maculifrons and P mueulwullis, Euc., = varr. : Reitler, B. E. Z. 
xvi. p. 176. 
Meloetyphlus, g. n., C. 0. Waterhouse, Ent. M. M. ix. p. 31. Eyeless. M. 
fuscatus, sp. n., id. 1. c. p. 32, E. Peru. 
3Ieloe puncticollis, p. 46, Siberia, granulifera, p. 47, E. Siberia, spp. nn. : 
Motschoulsky, 1. c. 
Mylabrides. 
Mylahris variabilis. A pair observed digging holes in the ground, near 
Carcassonne, by Gavoy, probably for some purpose connected with oviposit- 
ing. Nouv. et Faits, p.cli. 
Ceracoma. Table of species : Motschoulsky, Bull. Mosc. xlv. 2, p. 49. 
Mylabris axillaris^ Jlavipennisy brevicornis, id. 1. c. p. 50, Dauria ; 31. san- 
gumosa, Marseul, L’Ab. viii. p. 417, Persia : spp. nn. 
Coryna dolens, p. 417, Syria, denticulata, p. 418, Arabia : Marseul, 1. c., 
spp. nn. 
Peratus libudis, sp. n., Aloischoulsky, I, o, p. 51, Dauria. 
Ithampholyssa batesi, sp. n., Marseul, /. c, p. 416, Arabia. 
Cantharides. 
Epicauta and Lytta. New species are found in every fresh region j each 
kind of Astragalus having its accompanying Vesicant ; Horn, in Hayden’s 
Geol. Surv. of Montana, p. 384. 
Zoniies. Table of species, Motschoulsky, 1. c. pp. 62 & 63. 
Lydus stigmatifronsy sp. n., Marseul, 1. c. p. 419, Syria. 
Zonites luteuy fuscicornis, p. 310, apicaliSy hizonataj anmdata, p. 311 : W. 
Macleay, Tr. Ent. Soc. N. S. W. ii., Gayndah, spp. nn. 
