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ZOOLOGICAXi LITEIlATUllE. 
SiLPHIDiE. 
Leptoderides, 
Joseph (46th Jahrea-Bor. sclilosisch. (Sosollsch. 1808) deacrihoa an inaont 
undor the name of Leptoderus robicu, taken in a grotto hotween tlie Nanoa- 
berge and Luog, which ho appears unable to consider a good species or to 
refer with certainty to L. angustatm (Schm.), as a $ var. 
Silphides, 
An abnormal individual of Silpha atrata is mentioned in Tijdsch. v. Entom. 
xii. p. 104. 
Leptinus testaceus is recorded by Wesmael as new to the Belgian fauna 
(Ann. Ent. Soc. Belg. xii. 0. r. p. Ivi). Gorham (Ent. Mo. Mag. vi. p. 80) 
records the capture of numerous specimens of it in a nest of Bombus prato- 
rum, in Staffordshire. .... 
Adelops. Fairmaire (Stettin, ent. Zeit. 18G0) describes the following new 
species: — A. ovoideus and A. epurceoides, p. 234, Southern France j A. sub- 
alpinus, ibid., French Alps. Dieck (Berl. ent. Zeit. xiii.) describes the fol- 
lowing species : — A, styyius and inf emus, p. 348, Arit^ge j A. muscorum, 
p. 340, North Italy j A. kiesenwetteri, p. 350, Montserrat, Catalonia. 
Anisotomides, 
Triarthron mdrJcelii (Schm.) is recorded as British by Janson (on behalf 
of Power), Proc. Ent. Soc. Loud 1800, p. xix. 
Agaricophagus conforniis (Er.), $, has occurred to Be the, at Ostseestrand, 
Erichson having only known the S • Stettin, ent. Zeit. 1800, p. 420. 
Wankowiez (Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 4® s«5r. ix. p. 417) publishes a Table of 
the Lithuanian species of Agathidium, thirteen in number, including one new 
species. 
po/omewm (Wankowiez) =^>iccMWi,Er.: Wagkowiez, ibid., note. 
Anisotoma scutellaris, sp. n., Mulsant & Mayet, Ann. Soc. Linn. Lyon, n. s., 
xvi. p. 205, Cette. (It is manifestly impossible for two authors to describe 
a single species. In papers containing more than one species, two or more 
authors may combine their descriptions, signing or otherwise indicating 
their individual workj here, however, is an isolated notice of a single 
insect.) . , 
Cyrtusa blandmima impuhis, spp. nn., Zimmermann, Trans. Amer. Ent. 
Soc. ii. p. 261, N. Carolina. 
Agathidium pulcheUum, sp. n., Wankowiez, 1. c. p. 416, Boryssow. 
CORYLOPHID^. 
Corylophm suhlcevipennis (Duv.) is recorded as British by Sharp, Ent. Mo, 
Mag. V. p. 107. 
Kraatz (Berl. ent. Zeit. xiii. p. 283) revises the synonymy of the species 
of Sacium and Arthrolips as follows: — SA CIUM (Le Conte) ; pusillum (Bu V.) 
is ^oubly queried as identical with the pusillum of Gyll. and Thoms. ; corti-' 
cinum (Thoms.), pusillum (Redt.), atrum (I)ej., Ziegb), and ? discedens (Du 
\.)=obscurum (Sahib, nec Dej.)j nanum (Muls.) and brunneum (Bris.) are 
