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1). hrevicornis (Rodt.) = eV?;)rmrt (Payli.), of which hrcmcornis (Alir.) is 
iho hrevicornis (Siillr,, Lac.) is a var. of thalassina (Gorm.) : Kraatz, 1. c. 
pp. 2GG & 2G7. Kraatz mentions a probable var. of api'icans (I^ac.), which 
lie names andalusiaca^ and reproduces Thomson’s description of D. platystei'na 
(pp. 271 & 272). 
Bedel (Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 4*“ s6r. ix. Bull. p. vi) records Hcemonia mo- 
sellce (Bellevoye) from detritus of the Seine. 
Bellevoye (Pet. nouv. Entom. no. 9, 1 Nov. 18G9) remarks upon the 
habits of /iVemon/rt. Ho recommends a search, at anytime between June 
and October, for their cocoons at the roots of Potamofieton and Myriophyllum 
(of course under water). According to his experience, the larva, pupa, and 
perfect insect may bo found in cocoons at the same period. 
Criocerides, 
Kiley (First Ann. Rep. nox. Ins. Missouri, 18G9, p. 99) figures the prin- 
cipal stages, and refers to the habits of Lcma trilineata (01.), which infests 
the potato in N. America; and (p. 132) figures Fidia vitiddii (Walsh), de- 
structive to grape-vines in the same country. 
The sound-producing apparatus of Crioceris mcrdiyera is stated in Sitz.- 
Ber. d. nat. Gesell. Isis (Dresden), 18G9, p. 83, to be constructed exactly as 
in Kccrophoi'us. 
Walsh and Riley (Amer. Entom. i. p. 114) figure the transformations of 
Crioceris asparagi, and give particulars of its ravages on Long Island, where 
it was accidentally introduced about 18G0, from Europe, and whence it has 
now spread to the main land. 
Tthahus sagroides (Bohky) = hcchcri (SulFr.)=manMcr/teemM (Mots., 1845) : 
Motsch. IIoro3 Soc. Ent. Ross. vi. p. 94. 
Eumolpides, 
Bejot-Gandel (Journ. d’Agidc. pratique, 18G9, p. 888) refers to the ra- 
vages of Bromius vitis (F.). 
Eumolpus. Fairmaire (Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr., 4® ser. ix.) describes the fol- 
lowing new species : — E. argopoides, p. 247, Madagascar ; E. atramentarins^ 
p. 248, Nossi-B(5 ; E, impressicoUis, ibid., Madagascar; E, janthinipennis, 
p. 249, Mamoukou, Passandava, Madagascar. 
Cryptocephalides. 
Tappes (Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 4® s6r. ix. p. 6), as an instalment towaids his 
monograph of the European species of this family, describes four new species, 
and gives a fresh notice of a fifth. He figures these (Blanche P®), and re- 
produces from Rosenhauer (figs. 1-G, 9 & 11) details of the economy of 
Cryptocephalm in its earlier stages, giving also original figures (7, 8, 10, 
12-lG) of similar details Szc., and of two Hymenopterous parasites of two of 
the commoner Crypf.occphali. The discoveries of the past year have been five 
in number, viz. : — the parasitism of Blacus falcatus (Noes) on C. hipunctatus 
(fig. IG); the case (figs. 8", S’*), larvae and pupae of C. jnnthimis \ the enve- 
lope of the egg and the case of C. minvtus ; the cases of C. rossii and of 
C. aureolus (figs. 7, 7*, 7**), and the case of Ilomcdopus loreyi (fig. 8). 
Tappes {1, c. p. 7) states his conviction, founded on the observations of 
himself and of Rougot, Godart, Varin, and Peragallo, that C. hipnstulcdus 
