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capensis .{0\.) must be used for dorsalis (Thunb.), which does not stand; BemA- 
trias unipunctatus (Germ.) = mowos%mrt, Leach, 1819 {of. Crotch, Oat. Brit. 
Col. 18G3) ; Lehia crux-minor must be referred to Fab. and not to Oliv. 
Tetragonoderus hinotatus (Bej.) must be used for higuttatus (Thunberg), 
which does not stand. 
Leconte (Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc. ii. pp. 248-9, note) gives the following 
synonymical corrections of North- American species, on Ohaudoir’s autho- 
rity : — Lehia cupripennis to be referred to Chaud., not Boh. (and is found in 
Peru and Chili, not California); L. cyanella (JSloi%.^=smaragdina (Dej.) ; 
L. marginicollis (Doj.)=a^«e.9 (Dej.); L. axillaris (Dej.) = o;7^u^rt (Say, 
type and var. a); L. ornata (Say), var. h—analis (Dej.); L. marginella 
axillaris (immac. var.) ; L. nigripennis (Dej.) is not a var. of collaris 
(Dej.); L. cganea (l^ey^—sinaragdina (Dej.), var.; Calleida cyanipennis 
(QhsiX\&.^=:smaragdina (Dej.). 
Cymindis rejlexa (Lec.)=wiar^fwrti« (Kirby) =m’6nco///s (Dej.) : Leconte, 
/.c. p.244. 
Zimmehmann, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc. ii. p. 243, unites Metahletus^ Apris- 
tus, Blechrus, and other allied genera, to form a natural group, which he 
thus tabulates : — 
A. Head elongated, narrowed behind : 
a. Elytra scarcely shorter than the abdomen, but slightly truncate. 
Variopalpus (Sol.). 
b. Elytra shorter than the abdomen. Oxoides (Sol.). 
B. Head shorter, not obviously narrowed behind : 
c. Peduncle of prothorax strongly projecting; elytra rectilinearly trun- 
cate behind ; emargination of mentum without prominent tooth. 
Blechrus (Schaum), Boniius (Lee.), Microlestes (Schm, Goeb.). 
d. Peduncle of prothorax strongly projecting ; elytra feebly sinuate at 
post, truncation ; emarg. of mentum with prominent tooth. Meta- 
hletus (Sch.), Dromoceryx (Sch. G.), SytHomus (Hope). 
e. Peduncle of prothorax veiy feebly prominent ; tip of elytra scarcely 
sinuate ; emargination of mentum with prominent tooth. Apristus 
(Chaud.). 
Cymindis chaudoirii, sp. n., Fairmaire, Stettin, ent. Zeit. 1869, p. 234, 
Sicily ; C. hrevipennis, sp. n., Zimniermann, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc. ii. p. 243, 
Kansas. 
Bromius ramburii, sp. n., De la Brulerie, Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 4® s^r. ix. p. 20, 
Sierra Nevada ; B. nigrofasciatus, sp. n., Steinheil, Atti della Soc. Ital. Sci. 
Nat. xii. p. 241, Mendoza. 
Metabletus nitidulus, sp. n., De la Brulerie, 1. c. p. 22, Sierra de Guadarrama ; 
M. borealis, sp. n., Zimm. 1. c., Lake Superior. 
Lebia decora, sp. n., Steinheil, /. c. p. 241, Buenos Aires. 
Pericalides. 
H. W. Bates (Ent. Mo. Mag. vi. pp. 69-80, Aug. and Sept., 
1869) notices tlie strueture and habits of Coptodera and allies, 
and points out the error of Dejean and Lacordaire in attribu- 
ting a large central tooth to the mentum of that genus. He 
notices a good diagnostic character in the dilatation and scaling 
