COLEOPTERA. 
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Taroioni-Tozzetti, Adolfo. Sulla composizione delle zampe 
del Gyrinus natator. Bullet, della Society, Ent. Italiana, i. 
fasc. 2 , pp. .125-133, tav. 3. figs. 1-4. 
Muller (Proc. Ent, Soc. Loud, 1869, p. xxviii) refers to a Swiss specimen 
of Pterostichus prevostii with eight legs, the normal left hind leg being 
placed between two extra and somewhat stunted limbs. These supernume- 
rary legs were simply carried by the insect when alive, and did not assist in 
locomotion. Muller (L c. p. xxx) also notes aberrations of structure in Ahax 
jmrallclus and Chrus formicaritts. 
Bates (Proc. Ent. Soc. Loud. 1869, p. iii) remarks upon the position &c. 
of Nicaragua, and observes that American CoUoptera are dull in colour near 
the equator, but brighter near the tropics. Wallace (ibid.) thinks this 
holds good in the East also. 
Murray (Proc. Zool. Soc. 1869, p. 630) refers to larvae of a Longicorn 
beetle found in decayed palm trees, and sold ns food in the markets of Old 
Calabar. 
Westwood (Proc. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1869, p. xxx) notes that a species of 
Aphodius (lividiis?) is frequently vomited by South- African Hottentots, who 
are notoriously unclean feeders ; and also records the occurrence at Bath, in 
tea, of an eastern species of Heteroderes {Elateridce). 
lliTCHiE (Oanad. Nat. Sz, Geol. n. s. iv. p. 174) gives some notes on the 
use of the toad as a collector of beetles, enumerating thirteen perfect spe- 
cimens of 8 different species (including two of some rarity) found by him- 
flolf in the stomach of Jiufo amcricanus. 
Crotch (Entom. 63, p. 229) gives directions for the use of saw-dust 
damped with alcohol and carbolic acid as a means of preserving Coleoptera 
before mounting them. 
Sall:6 (Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 4® s^r. ix. Bull. p. xlviii) coiTects Besmarest’s 
error of attributing to Alexandre Lefebvre the “ Observations sur les meta- 
morphoses des Coleopteres du genre Cebrio ” (Rev. Zool. 185.3, p. 214) in- 
stead of to Lefebure de Cerisy, now deceased. Desmorest explains that the 
error was copied from Hagen’s ‘ Bibliotheca,’ wherein Be Cerisy’s name is 
stated to be omitted, and Lefebvre to be called Lefebure. 
In Beyrolle’s ‘^Petitesnouvelles Eutomologiques,” no. 3, is a note (correct- 
ing an erroneous one in no. 2) specifying the different directions in which 
the Bejeanian collection of Lamellicornes (including those of Reiche and La 
Ferte) has been dispersed. J. Thomson (in no. 4) corrects a further error as 
to part of this collection. 
Besb. des Loges (Pet. nouv. Ent. no. 10) gives a list of omissions, mis- 
placements, and errors of synonymy noticed by him in Stein’s Catalogue, 
These chiefly relate to the llliynchophora. 
Rye (FiOt. Mo. Mag. v. p. 247) criticises Gcmminger and Von Harold’s 
Catalogue, tom. ii., as regards British species. 
Bohrn (Stettin, ent. Zeit. 1869, pp. 123 & 376), under the heading of 
Boctor and Apotheker,” criticises the respective Catalogues of Gemminger 
and von Harold and Stein. 
