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sp. n., Fairm. I c. p. 251, Ste. Marie de Madagascar; O. carinulata, sp. n., 
Desb. des Leges, Pet. nouv. Entom. no. 9, 1 Nov. 1869, Southern Russia. 
Halticides. 
Laboulbene (Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 4c s6r. ix. Bull. p. xxii) remarks upon 
the habits of Lithonoma margineUa (Fab.). 
Cornelius (Stettin, ent. Zeitung, 1869, p. 408) records his finding PsyU 
Modes chrysocephaltis plentifully in the droppings of the Swift ( Cypselus apus) ; 
and at the same time records his conviction that P. nigricollis (Marsham) is 
nothing but a variety of that insect. 
Rye (Ent. Mo. Mag. vi. p. 88) notes Rottenberg’s opinion to the same 
effect. 
Dunning (Proc. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1869, p. xv) records the damage done by 
Thyamis parvula (Payk.) to flax crop at Belfast, especially whilst the plant 
was in the seed-leaf. 
Walsh and Riley (Amer. Entom. i. p. 168) figure the transformations 
of Phyllotreta striolata (111.), and give particulars of its economy from 
Shinier. 
Means of preventing the ravages of Phyllotreta undidata are discussed in 
the ^ Gardeners’ Chronicle,’ 1869, no. 20, pp. 641-2. 
Riley (First Ann. Rep. nox. Ins. Missouri, 1869, p. 101) figures and 
refers to the habits of Haltica cummeris (Harris), which, as he states, is 
erroneously considered by some authors to be identical with H, piibescens 
( 111 .). 
Hispides. 
Fairmaire (Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 4® s4r. ix. p. 254) notes the occurrence at 
Madagascar of the genus Oxycephala, hitherto only found in Asia. 
Baly (Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1869, p. 381) describes a new genus of His- 
pidee, remarkable among the whole Phytophaga for wanting the labial palpi. 
He has two species exhibiting this peculiarity, and fails to detect (with a 
very high power) the slightest trace of these palpi or their point of insertion, 
the basal segment of the ligula appearing itself to be obsolete, its place being 
occupied by the large apical segment. 
Baly (/. c. p. 367) now considers Alurnus cupido (Thoms.) specifically 
distinct from hipunciatus^ and gives Pebas (Upp. Amazons) as a new locality 
for A. cassidem (Westw.), 
New genera and species : — 
Aspidispa^ g. n., Baly, 1. c. p. 378, closely resembles Hoplionota, but in 
reality one of the llispidm^ and allied to Gonophora (Baly). Sp. A. iibialisj 
sp. n., Baly, 1. c. ibid., Gilolo. 
Chceridionay g. n., IBaly, I, c. p. 380. Labial palpi and basal segment of the 
ligula obsolete. Follows Nepius. Sp. C. metallica, sp. n., Baly, ibid., India ; 
C. picca, sp. n., Baly, 1. c. p. 381, India. 
JItspa apicata, Fairmaire, I c. p. 258, Ste. Marie de Madagascar ; H cenei- 
color, Fairm. /. c. p. 259, Mayotte, Comores ; II. longespinosa, Fairm. ibid., 
Ste. INlarie de Madagascar. 
Leptispa godwini, Baly, 1. c. p. 364, Shanghai. 
