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ZOOLOGICAL LITERATURE. 
Anisarthbia (p. 191). 
A. americana (Mots.), Amer. Georgia ; amcena (Mots.), U. States. 
Wankowiez (Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 4® ser. ix, p. 411) describes seven species 
of Ptcnulium found in Lithuania, and sinks formicetorum (presumably of 
Kraatz) as a var. of apicale (Er.). He also (/. c. p. 414) calls attention to 
the modifications exhibited by the seventh ventral segment in the males of 
six species of Trichoptcryx. 
Wollaston (Ent. Mo. Mag. vi. p. 162) records Actidium coardatum 
(Halid.) from South Devon. 
LimuludcSf g. n., Matthews, Ann. Lyceum Nat. Hist. New York, vol. viii. 
1867, pp. 406-13, pi. 15. Resembles the ^Ulorse-shoe Crab,” LirnuluSf in 
general facies : ant. 9-jointed, wide and flattened ; head retractile, eyeless ; 
max. palpi rising from an elevated process in the middle of the upper surface 
of stipes ; prosternum much elevated, excavated in front, produced posteriorly 
into a wide and long plate, deeply bifid at apex, passing over mesost. and 
part of metast. ; keel of mesost. anteriorly much elevated, expanded poste- 
riorly over the intermediate coxas, and produced into a broad spoon-shaped 
plate, very wide, truncate, and slightly emarginate at apex, which is clothed 
with long hair j legs exceedingly short and laminate ; apex of abd. strongly 
resembling that of the Tachyporid<^^ with which family the author hints 
that the Trichojiterygidcc have considerable affinity in his opinion. Sp. L. pa- 
radoxus,. n!, Florida, N. York and Wa.shington, in ants’ nests, p. 412. 
Ptenidium intermedium, sp. n., Wankowiez, 1. c. p. 412, Boryssow. 
Ptilium modestu?n, sp. n., Waukowiez, /. c. p. 413, Lithuania. 
SCAPHIDIIDiE. 
Toxidium compressum, sp. n., Zimmermann, "trans. Amer. Ent. Soc. ii. 
p. 251, Louisiana, Texas, Florida, Illinois. 
HiSTERIDiE. 
De Mabseul (Berk ent. Zeit. xiii. p. 288) divides a paper of his on South 
African Ilisteridce into two distinct parts : — 1, a list of species taken by 
Fritschj and 2, descriptions of such of these as are new. Nevertheless in 
the first part an insect' is indicated both as a variety and as a possible 
new species, being named and shortly described in a footnote. 
Teretrius quercus — Paromalus rothi (Rosenb.) ; Platysoma georgi- 
anum (Leach) = ohlongum (Fab.) ; De Marseul, L’Abeille, vi. p. 155 {cf. 
for the- last mentioned species, v. Harold, Col. Hefte, v. p. 100, and Water- 
house, Ent. Mo. Mag. v. p. 168). 
Zimmermann ’ (Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc. ii. p. 263) recharacterizes and 
tabulates Pachylopus (Er.), and groups the species of Pleyaderus (p. 254). 
He records Ilister servus (Er.), II. corvinus (Germ.), and Carcinops troglo- 
dytes (Mai-s.) from America, and observes that Platysoma cequum (Lec.) = 
Ilister frontalis (Say), which he redes(5ribes. 
Rye (Entom. Monthly Mag. v. p. 250), noticing variations in size and 
sculpture of British specimens of Gnathoncus rokmdatus (111.), considers 
Thomson, in all probability, wrong in specifically separating his G. pundulatus 
from that insect. 
Westwood (Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1869, Aug., p. 317) states that an 
Australian genus, which he charapterizes under the name Chlamydopsis, is 
