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COLEOPTERA. 
Oantharid^. 
Berg, C. Revision der argentinischen Arten der Gattung Cantharis. 
S. E. Z. xlii. pp. 301-309. 
22 species enumerated, with full synonymy and occasional remarks ; 
2 new. 
Burmeister, H. Die argentinischen Canthariden. S. E. Z. xlii. pp. 20-35. 
28 species described, belonging to the genera Cantharis^ Teiraonyx^ and 
Spastica ; 7 new. 
Magretti, P. Del prodetto di secrezione particolare di alcuni Meloidi ; 
esame microscopico. Bull, scient. Pavia, i. Aprilo, 1880. 
Munoz, G. y. Nuevas observaciones sobro costumbres y metamor- 
phosis di algunos Vesicantos. An. Soc. Esp. x. Actas, pp. 55-64. 
Relates to Cantharis vesicatoria^ Linn., Meloe turcica^ Rossi, Coryna 
hillhergi, Gyll., Mylahris duodecim-pumtata, 01., geminata, Fabr., and 
quadripunctata, Linn. 
Meloe, sp. Transformations ; Aurivillius, Ent. Tidskr. ii. pp. 7, 57 & 58. 
Mylahris, Fabr., nec Geoff r., renamed Megahris ; Des Gozis, Bull. Soc. 
Eut. Fr. (6) i. p. cxiii. 
Zonahris {Mylahris, ohm). List of 14 species from Margelan, in Tur- 
kistan (some new) ; Heyden, Deutsche E. Z. xxv. pp. 327 & 328. 
Cantharis. Burmeister (S. E. Z. xlii. pp. 21-31) gives the folloAving 
synonymy of Argentine species : Lytta steinheili, Haag-Rut., = C.viridi- 
pennis, Burm. ; L. maculata, Klug, = C. vittigera, Blanch. ; Causima 
luctuosa, Dej., = Lytta vidua, Klug ; Epicauta conspersa. Germ., = L. 
adspersa, Klug ; E. midtipunctata, Dej., var. minor, = L. punctata. Germ., 
= C. germari, Fisch., = L. atomaria, Germ. 
Cafitharis nuttalli. Say, Epicauta corvina, Lee., and pennsylvanica, 
Degeer, noticed, and the former figured ; Comstock, Rep. Dept. Agric. 
1879, pp. 251 & 252, pi. vi. fig. 3. 
Lytta luguhris and Epicauta wheelei'i, Ulke, redescribed ; Bull. Brook- 
lyn Soc. iv. p. 42. L. vittigera, Blanch., = dispar. Germ. ; Berg, Exped. 
Rio Negro, Zool. p. 104. 
(Enas, Latr., discussed, the males of the first division tabulated, and 
(E. afer, Linn., sericeus, 01., and crassicornis, 111., redescribed; Abeille 
de Perrin, Bull. Soc. Toulouse, xiv. pp. 240-245. 
Lydus algiricus, Linn., pallidicollis, Gyll., and Jmmeralis, Gyll., var. 
suturalis, Reiche, redescribed ; id 1. c. pp. 246-250. 
Megatrachelus, Motsch. Abeille (improperly, as it appears) proposes to 
restrict this name to politus, Gebl. ; 1. c. p. 252. 
Stenodera caucasica, Pall., var. crocata, from Tiberias described ; id. 1. c. 
p. 253. 
Sitaris nitidicollis, Ab., is not distinct from muralis, Font. ; id. 1. c. 
p. 258. 
Nemognatha chrysomelina, Fabr. Hagen disputes Muller’s theory of 
the development of the proboscis ; P. Bost. Soc. xx. pp. 429 & 430. H. 
Muller maintains his former opinions regarding the conclusions to be 
