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ZOOLOGICAL LITERATURE. 
Anthonomus stiei'lini, sp. n., Desbrochera des Loges, Pet. nouv. Ent. no. 8, 
15 Oct. 1869, Athens j A. Uthierryij sp. n., Desb. des Loges, Ann. Soc. Ent. 
Fr. 4® ser. ix. p. 397 (no locality given). 
Tychiides, 
Moncreaff (Entomologist, no. 62, p. 218), under the MS. name of Sibinia 
staticeSf refers to an insect found by himself in the flower-heads of sea-thrift 
at the Island of Portsea, and which he likens (when rubbed) to Amalis 
Scortitium (sic). 
Cionides. 
Cionus olens (Fab.) is recorded as British by Rye (Ent. Mo. Mag. v. p. 5). 
Cionus dictinctus, sp. n., Desb. des Loges, Pet. nouv. Ent. no. 8, 15 Oct. 
1869, Corsica. 
Abeille be Pehrin (Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 4® s^r. ix. Bull. p. xlviii) re- 
marks upon the faculty, possessed by the larvae of Nanophyes tamarisci, of 
making the seeds of tamarisk jump ; a peculiarity already recorded, accord- 
ing to Laboulbene, by Lucas and Gervais (cf. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fi*. 1849, Bull, 
p. Ixiv, and 1856, Bull. p. xciv j also Brisout, L’ Abeille, vi. p. 310). 
Orobitis niyer (Waltl), according to De Marseul, L’Abeille, vi. p. 25, note, 
is a Nanophyes, and probably (Boh.). II. Brisout omits reference to 
this point in his monograph, though referring Waltl’s insect to the same 
page as siculus in his Index. 
H. Brisout be Barneville (L’Abeille, vi. pp. 305-352) monographs the 
European and Algerian species of Nanophyes, of which he enumerates 33, 
including four new species. According to him, N. aureolas (Perris) = 
versus (Aube), var. j siculus (Boh.) and annulatus (Gyll.) exhibit sexual 
eccentricities in armatm^e of the femora; globiformis QL\%Q.)=rubrictis (Ro- 
senh.); brevicollis {0.1Bn3.)=sahlbe?'yi (Gyll.); difficilis and helveticus (Towx- 
nier), nitidulus (Gyll.), and lonyidus (N o\\.)—chevrie7'i (Boh.) ; anyustipcnnis 
(Bac]i)=lythri (Fab.), var. ; oliveri (DQQhv.) = centro7naculatus (Costa); sex- 
pwictatus (Kiea.) and settdosus {Tom'u.)=(juadi'ivi7'yatus (CoatsL), yarr. He 
thinks g7'acilis (Redt.) may be the same as ge7iimlatus (Aub^), and records 
the Algerian diu'ioei from Spain. 
New species are: — Na7iophyes poecilopte7’us, H. Brisout, 1. c. p. 334, 
Algiers ; sy7'iacus, II. Bris. 1. c. p. 337, Syria (brought forward with evident 
doubt) ; inco7ispicuus, H. Bris, 1. c. p. 345, and biskrensis, H. Bris. 1. c. p. 347, 
Algeria. 
Gymnetrides. 
Gy77inet7'on sangumipes (Chev.) = mnft6^7^s (Rosenh,); G. variabilis (Bris.) 
is renamed alghicus : De Marseul, L’Abeille, vi. p. 155, 
In the ^ Petites nouvelles Eutomologiqiies,’ no. 8, 15 Oct. 1869, is an un- 
signed notice, presumably on the part of Desbrochers des Loges, containing 
names, short descriptions and localities, &c. of the following species, stated 
to bo new : — Gym7ietro7i hofc7'i, S. Russia ; G. gi'iseohwtus, Corsica ; G. hey-- 
de7ii, Granada, Alhambra ; and a var. of G. 7ictus, named fulvus, and queried 
as possibly a good species, Allier. Desbrochers des Loges (1. c. no. 12) 
