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murina (Lee.), which, with L. atrata (Fab,), infest potatoe-plants in N. 
America. 
Sitaiis nitidicolliSf sp. n., Abeille de Perrin, Pet. nouv. Entom. no. 11, 1 
Dec. 1869, Provence. 
GEoEMERIDiE. 
Asclera nigra, sp. n., Leconte, Ann. & Mag. of Nat. Hist. 4th ser. iv. 
• p. 379, Vancouver’s Island. 
CURCULIONID^. 
Leconte (Ann. & Mag. of Nat. Hist. 4th ser. iv. p. 382) is inclined to 
attribute more importance than is attached by Lacordaire to a peculiar 
character exhibited by the greater part of the latter author’s Adelognathes 
and some of the short-beaked Phan6rognathes, viz. the possession by the 
freshly developed imago of deciduous acute pyramidal appendages to tlio 
mandibles; and intends to include all such forms under the name Brachydaridee. 
Pascoe (Proc. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1869, p. x) refers to species of the Euro- 
pean genera Apim, Attelahus, and Elleschus from Australia. 
Br achy derides. 
Allard (Berl. ent. Zeit. xiii. pp. 321 & 322) corrects some errors in his 
monograph of Sitones published in Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. According to his pre- 
sent opinion, S. callosus (Sch.) and S. teimis (Rosenh.) are good and distinct 
species, as are S. tibialis, amhiguus, and hrevicollis (Sch.), and S. lineatus and 
ymimlatus (Sch.). He gives diagnostic characters for these species, which ho 
had formerly confounded, and remarks that De Marseul is wrong in treating 
S. hitubei'culatus (Mots.) as a synonym of gemellatus (Sch.). 
Desbrochers des Loges (Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 4® s4r. ix. p. 398) gives a 
table of certain species of Polydrosiis allied to cermnus (Linn.). 
CiiEVROLAT (Coleopt. Ilefto, V. p. 73) remarks that Bhyllohius ligurinus 
(Gyll., Schon.) belongs to Eustolus (Thoms.), a genus which in his opinion 
should be maintained. He considers that Polydrosiis armipes (Gyll.) is most 
likely dentipos (Rrull<5), and gives characters for distinguishing his own 
chrysocephalus from armipes, with which it is erroneously united in Do Mars. 
Cat. 
Piezoemmus, g. n., Chevrolat, 1. c. p. 72. Belongs to the group Naupactides, 
and is chiefly conspicuous for its robust short legs, of which the tibiae are 
wide and flat, and very narrowed at the base. Sp. P. paradoxus (Schon., 
Polydrosus) ; P. pedemontanus, sp. n., Chev. ibid.. North Italy*. 
New species ; — 
Cyelomaurus pieeus, Allard, Berl. ent. Zeit. xiii. p. 324, and C. punctatus, 
Allard, 1. c. p. 325, Constantine. 
Strophosomus jlampes, Chevrolat, 1. c. p. 71, Asturias. 
Brachyderes ophthalmicus, Fairmaire, Stettin, ent. Zeit. 1869, p. 232, 
Andalusia. 
Sitones ophtalmicus (sic), Desbrochers des Loges, Pet. nouv. Ent. no. 8, 16 
Oct. 1869, Corsica; S. parallelipennis, Desb. des Loges, Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 
4* s^r. ix. p. 398, Southern Russia ; S. fairmairei, Allard, Berl. ent. Zeitschr. 
xiii. p. 322, Oran ; S, villosus, Allard, 1. c, p. 323, Tarsus. 
Metallites prumosus, Chevr. 1. c. p. 71, Algiers. 
