80 Ins, 
COLEOPTERA. 
planiusculal-lum], p. 511, fidvicornis[-ne], p. 512, ceneopicea[-eum'\, p. 513, 
vestita\_-tum], p. 514, jn’cewm, p. 515, badium, asperirostrey p. 516, gratum, 
contiguum, p. 517, lateritia[^-iurri] and punctatum, p. 518, id. 1. c., New 
Zealand. 
Sericotrogus longipes^ ovicollis, p. 522, and stramineus, p. 523, id. 1. c.. 
New Zealand. 
Phlceophagosoma constricticolle, id. L c. p. 530, New Zealand, 
Eutornus vicinus, hreviceps, amplus, p. 535, and littoralis. p. 536, id. 1. e., 
New Zealand. 
Cossonus maculosus and coquereli^ Fairmaire, Le Nat. ii. p. 293, 
Bourbon. 
Phlceopliagus filum, Chevrolat, Le Nat. ii. p. 198, Martinique. 
SCOLYTID^. 
Eichiioff, W. Die europaisclien Borkenkafer. Berlin; 1881, 8vo 
[Oct., 1880], pp. viii. & 315, 109 woodcuts. 
A monograph of the European Scolytidoi and Platypidce^ written from 
a practical as well as scientific point of view, and dealing very fully with 
the habits of the insects. Very full tables of genera and species are pre- 
fixed, including a table arranged according to the various plants which 
they attack. The woodcuts represent perfect insects, antennae, galleries, 
&c. A few new species are described. 
Blastophagus (Hylesinus) inniperda. Its ravages noticed ; Selys- 
Longchamps, OR. Ent. Belg. xxiii. pp. cli. & clii. 
Ilylesinus trifolii noticed and figured ; Am. Ent. iii. p. 180, fig. 81. 
Xyleborus, Eich. Short notes on the various species; H. du Buysson, 
Feuill. Nat. x. pp. 72-75. 
Scolytus pruni and rugulosus, Ratz., noticed ; Lotzner, JB. schles. Ges. 
Ivii. pp. 355 & 356. 
Eccoptogaster riigv.losus attacking peach-trees at Ycsoul ; Fairmaire, 
Bull. Soc. Ent. Fr. (5) x. pp. xxxiii. & xxxix. 
Platypus cylindrus injurious to oak ; Lucas, op. cit. p. xxvi. 
New species : — 
Carp/io5orws^«m (Kiesen wetter, MS.), Eichhoff, Borkenkafer, p. 131, 
S. France. 
Cryidialus schreineri^ id. 1. c. p. 185, Pomerania. 
Stephanoderes arundiniSy id. 1. c. p. 191, Piedmont. 
Xyleborus (?) punctatissimus, id. Notes Leyd. Mus. ii. p. 189, Sumatra. 
Pityophthorus macrographus (Schreiner, MS.), id. Borkenkafer, p. 200, 
figs. 55-57, Silesia. 
Thamnurgus characice (Rosenh., MS.), id. 1. c. p. 208, Barcelona. 
Scolytus Idrschiy Skalitzky, Ent. Monatsbl. 1876, p. 110, Eichhoff, 
Borkenkafer, p. 159, Prague ; S. ensifevy Eichhoff, 1. c. p. 163, Paris. 
Platypus caviceps and castaneuSy Broun, Man. N. Z. Col. pp. 541 & 542, 
New Zealand. 
Tesseracerus beltiy Sharp, Ent. M. M. xvii. p. 112, Chontales. 
