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species, to whicli kShnrp considers Erichson’s description of atricilla cannot 
np[»l y, and for wliicli lie repudiates Watorlionse’s name of mnritimaj as already 
CMiiployed in Homaloia\ XL funcofemorata (Waterh.) and//. ( Jans.) 
are suppressed for picipas (Thoms.) and nigj'icornis (Thoms.), the prior 
Stephensian species of the two latter names being considered as non- 
existent ; angusticollis (Thoms.) is specifically distinct from ravUla (Er.) ; 
saundersi (Rye) = (Ileer) ; dadopora (Thoms.) = 5 ^ var. 
of fungi (Gray.), with shorter antenum and thorax, is described and named 
dnhia. 
Rye (Entom. Annual, 1870, p. 50) identifies II, imecta (Thoms.) with 
snlcifrons (Steph,), and anieicoUis (Sharp) with xanthoptera (Steph.). 
Ilomalvta mfotestacea (Ktz.) is recorded as British by Ry^, Ent. M. Mag, 
V. p. 218. 
Bethe (Stettin, ent. Zeit. 1869, p. 426) records Homalota nigerrima (Aub<5) 
as new to the German lists. 
Myllcenaparadoxa (Scriba) is to be referred to Oxypoda, according to Baudi, 
1. c. p. 677, note. 
Peyiion (Pet. nouv. Ent. no. 9) records the capture at Acre of a Sta- 
phylinid (for which he thinks that a new genus near Dinopsis must be 
formed) in company with a largo unknown ant, the habits of which he 
notes. 
Rye (Ent. Mo. Mag. vi. p. 169) records Myllcma glauca (Aub6) from Eng- 
land, and notes the specific difference between the M, elongata of Matthews 
and of Kraatz. 
New species : — 
Ocalca parmda^ Baudi, Berlin, ent. Zeitschr. xiii. p. 309, Cyprus, Piedmont, 
Eranco. 
Leptusa. Baudi, 1. c., describes the following species : — L. pulchclla, p. 370, 
note, Uuomod’ossola } L. hidens, p. 371, note, Apennines ; L. simplex, p. 372, 
note, Turin. 
Cidodtra pulchella, Baudi, 1. c. p. 375, Cyprus. 
Tachyusa agilis, Baudi, 1. c. p. 376, Cyprus. 
Oxypoda himamlata, Baudi, 1. c. p. 377, Cyprus. 
Homalota. Sharp, 1. c., describes the following species 7/ eximia, 
p. 103 (^— fragilicornis, Ktz. P?), Scotland; II. delicattda, p. 107, '^Scot- 
land; II. littorea, p. 109 (= Jluviatilis, Ktz.??), England; II londinensis, 
p. 118, Britain and Germany ; II clavipes, p. 124, Scotland ; II ohlongiuscula, 
p. 130, Britain ; H. princeps, p. 142, Isle of Wight ; II subglahra, p. 149, 
Scotland ; II. fallaciosa, p. 167, Scotland ; II. crihriceps, p. 166, England 
(possibly not a true Homalota) ; H. curtipennis, p. 173, Scotland {hreviceps, 
Thoms. ?) ; H. cavifrons, p. 177, Scotland ; H. simillima, ibid., Scotland ; H. 
dccipiens, p. 179, England ; II. exarata, p. 180, England ; II suh(cnea, p. 187, 
Britain; H. ceneicollis, p. 189, Britain; H. incognita,-^. 191, Scotland; II 
hyhrida, p. 196, Scotland ; H. ignohilis, p. 200, Britain and Germany ; II di- 
' versa, p. 201, Scotland; II puherula, p. 213, England ; II perc.vigua, 216, 
England ; II mdubia, p. 227, Scotland ; II indiscreta, p. 228, Scotland ; II 
otricolor, p. 230, Britain ; II. germana, p. 235, Scotland ; II hodierna, p. 236, 
England and France ; II. canescens, p. 239, England ; II setigera, p. 261, 
Britain. 
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