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ZOOLOGICAL LITERATURE. 
' Anapestus kreusle?'i (King) = JE. for7nicarnm (Pascoe) : Westw. ibid. 
Ptinus lobodenis (Schm.) and P. dilophtcs (Boield.) =lusitanus (III.); .?• 
alpinus (Boield.) = irro7'atm (Kies.) $ ; P. lepidus (Villa) = oma^ws (Miill.), 
var. j P. 7’ube7' (Rosenh.) and P. cisti (Ghe\.)=spitzpi (Villa) ; P. 7'apto)' 
(Sturm.) and P. stjcophmiia (J\\.)=bidens (01.). De Marseul, L’Abeille, vi. 
p. 165. 
Ptimia aubei'ti, sp. n., Abeille do Perrin, Pet. nouv. Entom. no. 11, 1 Dec. 
1869, Toulon. 
Nitpus gonospe7'7ni (Diiv.) is stated on behalf of Power in Proc. Ent. Soc. 
Lond. 1869, p. xx, to have occurred in the Orkneys. Rye (Ent. Annual, 
1870) considers this insect must have been accidentally introduced. 
P. DE Borre (Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg. xii. Comptes rendus, p. iii) records 
GibbiuTii scotias, taken by Oandeze at Brussells, as new to the Belgic fauna. 
Ectrephes pascoei, Westwood, l.c. p. 315, and E. himjiiy spp. nu., Westw. 
1. c. p. 316, Swan River. 
A7iobium coyifei timi, sp. n., Wollaston, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 4th ser. iv. 
p. 319, St. Helena (possibly imported). 
Polyplocotes^ Westwood, 1. c. p. 316. Antennae 9-jointed. Connects 
Ectrephes with the Ptmidce. Sp. P. loTigicollis, sp. n., Westw. ibid., and P. 
7iitidus, sp. n., Westw. 1. c. p. 317, Swan River, New Holland. 
Diplocotes, g. n., Westw. 1. c. p. 317. The stout 11-jointed antennae of this 
genus are stated to connect Polyplocotcs with Ptmus. The 10th joint is in- 
crassated, and equal to the three preceding. Sp. D. howitta)ms, sp. n., Westw. 
ibid., Gawler, Adelaide. 
Bostrychid^. 
Sinoxylo77 mimcatimi (Fab.) is quoted in Bull. Soc. Ent. Ital. i. p. 80, from 
Rendic. dell’ 1st. Lombardo, as destructive in the larval state to oaks, near 
Florence. 
Eost)'yclms {Xylopertha) iracundus, sp. n., Snell, v. Volleuh., Rech. Fauno 
do Madagasc. 1869, p. 10, pi. 1. f. 7, Nossi-B»5. 
ClOID^. 
Wankowiez (Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 4® ser. ix. p. 421, note) remarks on the 
insufficiency of the spinosity of the anterior legs as a generic character for 
E7mearth7'on, and notes the evident transition to irregularity of structure 
afforded by P. covTiutimi in this respect, — E. Ia7'icmu7n {Cis^ Melli^), moreover, 
having simple legs and nine-jointed antennm. 
Chapman (Entom, Monthly Mag. v. p. 297) records his observations on 
the oviposition of Octotemnus glabriculus. 
Cisvestitus (Melli^) is recorded as British by Rye (Ent. Mo. Mag. vi. p. 5). 
Cis sublammatus, sp. n., Wankowiez, 1. c. p. 422, Lithuania. 
E7inearth7'on loagcBy sp. n., Wankowiez, 1. c. p. 421, Lithuania. 
Melasomata. 
Fascoe (Annals and Mag. of Nat. Hist. 4th ser. vol. iii. nos. 13, 14, 16 
and 17, plates x.-xii.) describes new genera and species of Melasu7nata, from 
Australia and Tasmania, and thinks the number likely to be greatly increased. 
