36 Ins. 
COLEOPTEEA. 
On the classification of European Silphidce ; all the European species 
previously referred to the American genus A delops should be referred to 
Bathyscia, Schiodte. Horn, Bull. Soc. Ent. Fr. (5) x. pp. Ixxxviii.-xc. 
Silpha ramosa. Habits and transformations described ; Gissler, Am. 
Ent. iii. pp. 265-267, fig. 145. 
Colon. General remarks ; G. Czwalina, Ent. Nachr. vi. pp. 245 & 246. 
New genera and sjpecies : — 
P elates, Horn, Tr. Am. Ent. Soc. viii. p. 244. Allied to Necrophilus ; 
antennm arising under a frontal margin, first joint short, robust, third 
scarcely longer than second. Type, Necrophilus latus, Mann (redescribed 
and figured, I, c. pi. v. fig. 6). 
Platycholeus^ id. 1. c, p. 254. Allied to Bathyscia ; head broad, narrowed 
to a neck behind ; eyes present. Type, Ptomaphagus lepiinoides^ Crotch 
(redescribed and figured, 1. c. pi. vi. fig. 2). 
PinodyteSy id. 1. c. p. 248. Type of the tribe Pinodytini (vide supra) ; 
type, Catops cryptophagoides, Maun (redescribed and figured, 1. c. p. 249, 
pi. V. fig. 12). 
Prionochceta, id. 1. c. p. 260. Allied to Choleva ; tibial spurs very long, 
bipectiuate ; type, Catops opaca^ Say (redescribed and figured, 1. c. p. 261, 
pi. V. fig. 14). 
MesocoloUy Broun, Man. N. Z. Col. p. 153. Allied to Colon and 
Choleva ; to contain M. clathrata, p. 153, liturata, puncticeps, undulata, 
p. 154, hicolor, nehilosus, p. 155, maculifer, hirtalis, p. 156, punctulata, 
torvus, p. 157, and domestica [all should be neuter terminations], p. 158, 
spp. nn., 1. c.y New Zealand. 
Camiarus indiscretns concinnuSyid. 1. c. pp. 149 & 160, New Zealand. 
Necrophilus pettitiy Horn, 1. c. p. 243, Canada to Kentucky. 
Choleva egenUy Alaska, and decipiens, Washington Territory, id. 1. c. 
pp. 257 & 259 ; C. antennalis fmdi alacriSy Broun, 1. c. p. 152, New Zealand. 
Ptorna[to'^phagus nevadicuSy Horn, 1. c. p. 263, Nevada. 
Colon paradoxum, fig. 14, Pennsylvania, Columbia, huhhardiy fig. 13, 
Michigan, Tennessee, Columbia, p. 270, celatuniy fig. 12, Nevada, p. 271, 
putuniy Pennsylvania, Columbia, p. 272, pusilluniy Maryland, Virginia, 
Columbia^ Colorado, p. 273, thoracicumy fig. 7, Missouri, Columbia, aspera- 
tuMy Michigan, Canada, Illinois, Columbia, p. 274, nevadensCy W. Nevada, 
p. 275, id. L c. pi. vi. 
Anisotomidje. 
Anisotoma. Notes on French species ; Ducaux, Feuill. Nat. xi. pp. 24 
&25. 
IsoplastuSy g. n., Horn, Tr. Am. Ent. Soc. viii. p. 295. Differs from 
Agathidium by its 10-jointed antennae with tri-articulate club. Type, 
I. fossoVy sp. n., 1. c. pi. vii. fig. 10. 
New species : — 
Triarthrum lecontiiy Horn, 1. c. p. 279, pi. vi. figs. 15 & 15 a, California. 
Ilydnohius strigilatus, id. 1. c. p. 280, Nevada, Vancouver’s Island. 
Anisotoma humeraliSy fig. 4, California, Oregon, p. 286, valida, figs. 2 & 
