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ZOOLOGICAL LITISUATURE. 
Pselaphm nigricans (Leach), referred to Britain in Qemmingor and Von 
Harold’s catalogue under the genus Bryaxis, is pointed out by Bye (/. c. 
p. 117) as having been described from Florence. 
Baudi (/. c.) describes under the name tenuicornis an insect which he 
attributes with doubt as a variety to Tychus castaneus (Aube) j he gives no 
locality. He notes var. of Bryaxis sanguinea (p. 408, note), and redescribes B. 
chevrierii (AubC), p. 412, and clavata (Peyron), p. 413, with their respective 
males. 
Bye (Ent. Mo. Mag, v. p. 249) proposes the specific name waterhousei 
for Bryaxis simplex (Waterhouse), the latter name being occupietl in the 
same genus by a Motschulskyan species from the East Indies. 
Rye (Entomologist’s Annual, 1870, pp. 115 & 118) notes the assignment 
by Schaum of Bryaxis hcemoptcra (Aube), Tychus ibericiis (Motsch.), and 
Trhnium brevipenne (Chaud.) to Britain, but thinks further evidence required 
before accepting these species as British, 
Becker (Hoi-jb Soc. Ent. Boss. vi. p. 108) records Bryaxis furcata (Mots.) 
from Sarepta as common among Statice tommtella. 
Bytkinus niyrinus (Muls.) and B, Icevicollis (Fairm.) = clamcornis (Panz.). 
Baudi, on Saulcy’s authority, 1. c. p. 414, note. 
Ctmistcs calcaratuSy sp. n., Baudi, Berlin, ent. Zeitschr. xiii. p. 405, Asia 
Minor; C, ponticusy sp. n., Baudi, 1. c. p. 40G, Cyprus and Asia Minor. 
. Batrisus insular is, sp. n., Baudi, L c. p. 407, Cyprus. 
Bryaxis, Baudi, 1. c., describes the following now species : — B. gigas, p. 408, 
B. cypria, p. 409, B. gibberay p. 411, B, tuberculatay 412, B. dentipeSy p. 413, 
Cyprus ; B. syriacay p. 410, Beyrouth. 
Bythinus simplex and B, italicus, spp. nn., Baudi, I, c. p. 414, note. Pied- 
mont. 
Clavigerides. 
Claviger longicornis is recorded as new to the Belgian fauna by Wesmael 
(Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg. xii. C. r. p. Ivi). 
King (Trans. Ent. Soc. N. S. Wales, ii. pt. i. 18G9, p. 50) notes the exist- 
ence of forms in the Australian fauna closely allied to those of S. America, 
and gives a list of the known species of Articerus. 
Claviger apenninus, sp. n., Baudi, Berl. ent. Zeitschr. xiii. p. 415, note, 
Apennines. 
Articerus tumidusy sp. n., Westwood, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 18G9 (Aug.),- 
p. 318, Swan River { = setipes d, Westw. ?) ; A, amazonicuSy sp. n., Wcstw. 
1. c. p* 319, Upper Amazons. 
Articerus (? Fustigery Brendel) regius, sp. n.. King, 1. c. p. 65, Liverpool, 
N. S. W.; A. brevicepSy sp. n., King, /, c. p. 5G, Rope’s Creek. 
SCYDMASNIDiE. 
Leconte (Trans. Ainer. Ent. Soc. ii. pp. 251-2) publishes an 
abstract of ZimrnermamPs views as to the classification of the 
Rhypophaga, from which ^^series^^ that author proposed to 
eliminate and transfer the following families : — the Pselaphidcey 
