52 Ins. 
COLEOPTEEA. 
Rhombonyx^ Hope, cannot be separated from Anomala, even as a sub- 
genus. A. tingitana^ Blanch., = velox^ var. ; Preudhomme de Borre, 0. E. 
Ent. Belg. xxv. pp. cxxxvi.-cxxxviii. 
Anomala mnea^ var. (?) or sp. n. (?), from South Europe, described; 
id. 1. c. p. cxx. 
Antichira splendida^ Oliv. (nec Fabr.), renamed oZ^v^m ; A. pantochloris, 
Blanch., tetradactyla, Linn. (= melanaria, Blanch., = tristis, Burm., but 
perhaps not tristis^ Cast.), dichroa, Mann. (= tetradactyla, Burm., nec 
Linn.), noticed : Waterhouse, Tr. E. Soc. 1881, pp. 537-539, 
Chlorota lineata, Murr., referred to Thyridium ; id. 1. c. p. 550. 
New species : — 
Anisoplia gossypiata, Fairmaire, Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. (6) i. p. 86, 
Syria. 
Phyllopertha xanthogastra, Harold, MT. Munch, ent. Ver. v. p. 90, ' 
J apan. 
Anomala sordidula^ p. 233, rotundiceps^ p. 234, hreviceps, p.235,fuscula, 
p. 236, chalcites (Dej., MS.), p. 237, flagellata and chalcescens^ p. 238 ; 
Sharp, Notes Leyd. Mus. hi. A. {Spilota?) curtisi^ Waterhouse, Tr. E. 
Soc. 1881 , p. 487, all from Sumatra. 
Mimela dehilis, Sharp, Notes Leyd. Mus. iii. p. 239, Sumatra. 
Popilia foveolata, id. 1. c. p. 240, Sumatra, Borneo. 
Antichira modesta, Cuen 9 a, sobrina, Peru, p. 535, Iceta^ Bahia, p. 536, 
Iccvicollis^ Minas Geraes, p. 537, aterrima (Dej., MS.), Mexico, p. 538» 
cribrata, Monte Video, Chili ?, gagatina, Rio Grande P, p. 539, desmaresti^ 
Ecuador, New Granada, polita^ New Granada, p. 540, generosa^ Cayenne, 
substriata^ Para, p. fulgida, Peru P, p. 542, sulcipennis^ p. 543, pilosula^ 
Chiguinda, BXid puberula^ New Granada, p. 544 ; Waterhouse, Tr.E. Soc. 
1881. 
Thyridium sommeri, Brazil, p. 545, punctatum^ Venezuela, sodale^ Ecu- 
ador, p. 546, scutellatum, Brazil?, p. 547, cyanipes, Colombia, p. 548, 
punctatissimum, Venezuela, p. 549, and punctiventre^ Chiguinda, p. 550 ; 
id, 1. c. 
Chlorota ccrea^ vitrina, Ecuador, p. 551, bidentata, New Granada, p. 552, 
and associata, Chiguinda, p. 553 ; id. 1. c. C. diaspis, Dohrn, S. E. Z. 
xlii. p. 447, Interior of Brazil. 
Parastasia nigripennis and sordida, Sharp, 1. c. p. 241, Rawas. 
Dynastides. 
FriIidericq, L. Sur le sang des Insectes. Bull. Ac. Belg. (3) i. 
pp. 487-490. 
The blood of Oryctes nasicornis is perfectly colourless, except when 
decomposing, and contains no substance analogous to hsemoglobine. 
Cyclocephala parvula, Burm., noticed and figured ; Berg, Exped. Rio 
Negro, Zool. p. 100, pi. ii. fig. 15. 
Ligyrus rugiceps, Lee., life-history, &c. ; Comstock, Report on Insects 
injurious to Sugar-cane (1881) pp. 3-8, fig. ; cf. also id. Rep Dept. Agric. 
1879, pp. 246 & 247, pi. v. fig. 4, 1880, pp. 236-240. L. gibbosus^ De Geer, 
destructive to sunflowers; id. 1. c. 1880, p. 274. 
