94 Ins, 
COLEOPTERA. 
hrevicollifi^ atro-ceruleus\^-coiruled], ochraceus\_-ea\, p. G25, and huttoni, 
p. 626, Broun, Man. N. Z. Col., New Zealand. 
Penlticus robustus, id. 1. c. p. 628, New Zealand. 
Apilon pretiosum, punctatum, p. 630, and minuiam^ p. 631, id. 1. c., New 
Zealand. 
ChalcQphana huckleyi, Ecuador, Peru, and ignicollis, Amazons, Ecuador, 
Jacoby, 1. c. p. 593. 
Nodostoma vidgarh{_-re], Chapuia, Ann. Mus. Genov, xv. p. 9, Abyssinia. 
Scelodonta vittata, id. 1. c., Bogos. 
PseudocolasgAs viridis and fusco-onnea, id. 1. c. pp. 9 & 10, Abyssinia. 
Trichostola fuscitarsus, id. 1. c. p. 10, Abyssinia. 
ColasposoQuaperlatal- turn], Harold, Deutsche E. Z. xxiv. p. 220, S. Africa. 
Euryope batesi, East Central Africa, and minuta, Cape of Good Hope, 
Jacoby, 1. c. p. 169. 
Pachnepliorus testaceipes, Fairmaire, Le Nat. ii. p. 316, & Ann. Soc. 
Ent. Fr. (5) x. p. 338, Nossi-Be. 
Eurydernus oculatus, Chapuis, 1. c. p. 10, Abyssinia. 
Colaspoides cupreipennis and elongatus, Jacoby, 1. c. pp. 594 & 595, 
Ecuador. 
Ghrysomelides. 
Colaspidema {ColapTius) sophice^ Fabr. Transformations described and 
figured ; Bitsema, Tijdscbr. Ent. xxiii. pp. 139-151 & 251, pi. ix. 
Gastrophysa rap)hani. Habits and transformations; J. A. Osborne, 
Ent. M. M. xvii. pp. 49-57. Parthenogenesis; id. 1. c. pp. 127-130, and 
Nature, xxii. pp. 509 & 510. This phenomenon occurs chiefly in the first- 
laid batches ; it is peculiar to some females, and the tendency is increased 
by confinement and domestication ; the insect is many-brooded, and the 
eggs are true ova. 
Plagiodera scripta. Natural history; Am. Ent. iii. pp. 159-161, figs. 
61-64. 
Chrysomela menthastri, Sulfr. : melanic example ; G. Piolti, Bull. Ent. 
Ital. Resoconti, 1880, p. 11. C. polita : eggs described; Osborne, Sci. 
Goss. xvi. p. 223. 
Dorypho7'a 10-lineata. History, &c. ; Am. Ent. iii. pp. 116-118,169, 
170, 190, 191, 294, 296 & 297, woodcuts, and Nat. Canad. xii. p. 126. 
Will eat Solanum dulcamara ; fowls can be trained to eat the insect, 
though they refuse it at first : J. E. Bates, Rep. E. Soc. Out. 1878, pp. 77 
& 78. Also eaten by the Rose-breasted Grosbeak; Kunze, Am. Nat. xiv. 
pp. 521 & 522. 
Timai'cha Iccvigata. Tenacity of life ; Bruuetti, Ent. M. M. xvi. p. 235. 
New species : — 
Plagiodera quadrimaculata^ Costa Rica, p. 171, and sexmaculata^ 
Ecuador, pi. liv. fig. 12, p. 595, Jacoby, P. Z. S. 1880. 
Chrysomela earner ani^ G. Piolti, Atti Acc. Tor. xv. p. 378, Rivoli (Pied- 
mont) ; C. sansibarica, Harold, MB. Ak. Berl. 1880, p. 269, E, Africa. 
Stilodes chapuisi^ Chontales, and stemheilij pi. xviii. fig. 1, Colombia, 
Jacoby, 1. c. pp. 169 & 170. 
