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ZOOLOGICAL LITERATURE. 
Emery (Pet. nouv. Ent. no. 7), having taken many specimens of Silvanus 
bicorms (Er.), by sifting dead leaves, has assured himself, by dissection, that 
only the <5 has the head horned. Both sexes, however, may be distinguished 
hom fi’umentarim by the longer space between the eyes and the post, angles 
of the head in bicorms. 
Silvanus dinilis (Er.) is recorded as British by Janson, on behalf of Power. 
Proc. Ent. Soc. Bond. 1809, p. xx. 
Silvanus bicornis, Lannophlocus testaceus (Fab., with which L. zinwiermanni, 
Lee., is identical), L. pusillus, and L. altcrnans are noted as common to 
Europe and N. America by Zimmermann, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc. ii. p. 257, 
who gives the name vertialis to a species of Lathropus, allied to the European 
L. sepicola, but without describing the insect. 
New genera and species : — 
Typhlocharis, g. n., Bieck, Berlin, entoni. Zeitschr. xiii. p. 351. Allied to 
LmnophlceuSf of which it has the form and habit, but distinguished by its 
entire want of eyes, the structure of its anterior tibite (which are strongly 
emarginate on the inner side, and produced at the upper third into a trian- 
gular process, which is armed at the apex with a very long incurved spine, 
reaching the middle third of the tibia), the inflated third joint and very mi- 
nute subuluted apical joint of its max. palpi, and the simple apex of its man- 
dibles. All the tarsi are 6-jointed ) but the author suggests the possibility 
of all his specimens (1 1) being $ . Sp. T. silvanuidcs, sp. n., Bieck, 1. c. p. 352, 
Tangiers, associated with a new species of Anillus. 
Nilina, g. n., Motsch. Bull. Soc. Imp. Nat. Mosc. 18(58, no. 3, p. 201, tab. viii. 
flg. 11. Thorax laterally reflexed, elytra attenuated, club of antennae some- 
what abrupt, formed by joints lb-11, of which the apical joint is almost buried 
in the penultimate ; tarsi pentamerous, fourth joint very small. Sp. N. 
rejlexicullis, sp. n., Motsch. 1. c., Egypt. 
PseudinOj g. n., Fairmaire, Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 4* sdr. ix. p. 208. Closely al- 
lied to Ino (Lap.), but with penult, joint of tarsi not bilobed, head contracted 
behind, elytra obliquely cut at the apex, and spurs to the tibiae. Forms a 
transition from the ITemipeplides to Lccmopldocus. Sp. P. coquerelii, sp. n., 
Fairm. 1. c., Ste. Marie de Madagascar. 
Psammccchidius (sic), g. n., Fairmaire, 1. c. p. 209. Very close to Psam- 
mocchuSj but with penult, joint of tarsi bilobed, flrst joint of antennae longer 
than second and third together, and thorax strongly contracted behind and 
laterally toothed. In the latter character it approaches Phlceostichus (sic), 
from which it differs in not having its antennae slender at the base and 
widened towards the apex. The author cannot be sure whether its tarsi are 
pentamerous or heteromerous. Sp. P. spinicoUisj sp. n., Fairm. ibid., Ste. Marie 
de Madagascar. 
Nausibius major, sp. n., Zimin. 1. e. p. 257, Carolina. 
Siloamis costatus, sp. n., Steinheil, Atti Soc. Ital. Sci. Nat. xii. p. 256, 
Buenos Ayres 
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V. Gernet (Ilorao Soc. Ent. Ross. vi. 1808) describes and figures the larva 
of Antherophac/us pallens. 
V. IIeVden (Berl. ent. Zeit. xiii. p. 55) reproduces Frivaldszky’s characters 
