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COLEOPTEBA. 
rest on very insufficient characters. The author describes one new genua 
and several new species : Nacerdes surdea, Schmidt, = ? melanura, Linn. ; 
N. viridipes, Schmidt ?, = Anoncodes meridionalis, Costa. N. adusta, 
Panz. : the following are synonyms : (Edechira fLavipennis, Motsch., 
CEdemera paradoxa. Paid., and ? Anoncodes axillaris^ Men. (Edemera 
sericansj Muls., var. ohscura from the Caucasus described ; CE. caucasica^ 
Kol., = lateralis^ Schmidt ; Prohosca (Nacerdes) fucata^ Paid., z= ? P. 
cinerea, Motsch. 
Xanthochroa italica^ Chevr. , amended description ; Abeille de Perrin, 
Bull. Soc. Toulouse, xiv. p. 258. 
Ananca lagenicollis, incrassata^ Pairm., and moorii^ Montr., redescribed ; 
Pairmaire, Ann. Soc. Ent. Pr. (6) i. pp. 28G, 287 & 289. 
New genera and species : — 
Xanthochroina, Ganglbauer, Verb. z.-b. Wien, xxxi. p. 105. Allied to 
Xanthochroa ; type, X. auberti, Abeille. 
Ananca Ugnicolor, subusta, p. 287, and apicata^ p. 288, Pairmaire, Ann. 
Soc. Ent. Pr. (6) i., Piji. 
Nacerdes austriaca, Ganglbauer, Verb. z.-b. Wien, xxxi. p. 103, Austria, 
Hungary ; N. carinata, Karsch, B. E. Z. xxv. p. 50, pi. ii. fig. 9, & Bohlfs’s 
Kufra, p. 378, Oasis of Kufra. 
Danerces (?) semipicea, id. SB. nat. Pr. 1881, p. GO, Guinea Islands. 
Lethonymus difformis, Privaldszky, Term, fuzetek, iv. p. 2G3, Brussa. 
Ischnomera reitteri^ Ganglbauer, 1. c. p. 116, Caucasus. 
(Edemera acutipalpis, Caramania, pruinosa, Beyrut, p. 259, coarctU 
collis, Jaffa, Tiberias, &c., p. 260, and atricepSy Tiberias, Nazareth, p. 261, 
Abeille de Perrin, Bull. Soc. Toulouse, xiv. ; (E. brevipenniSj Ganglbauer, 
Z. c. p. 108, note, Roumelia. 
AaLYOEKIDiE. 
Proterhinus hystrix, p. 527, dispar, p. 528, gracilis, p. 529, angidaris, and 
punctipennis, p. 530, and validus, p. 531, Sharp, Tr. E. Soc. 1881, Ha- 
waiian Islands ; spp. nn. 
CUBCULIONIDAC. 
Harrington, W. H. Rhynchophora — Weevils. Rep. E. Soc. Ont. 1880, 
pp. 49-57, figs. 31-43. 
A popular article, with special reference to Canadian species. 
Curculionideous larva feeding on the roots of lilies from Japan; 
McLachlan, P. E. Soc. 1881, p. xxxviii. 
Br achy derides. 
Aramigus fulleri. Pood-plants ; Comstock, Rep. Dep. Agric. 1879, 
pp. 250 & 251. 
Naupactus chordinus and snffitus, Boh., are sexes ; Berg, Exped. Rio 
Negro, Zool. p. 105. N. stanr op terns, Germ., figured; Waterhouse, 
Aid, i. pi. xxvii. 
