42 Ins, 
COLEOPTERA. 
Rottenberg’s treatment of L. nigricepa and viridiceps, considering that that 
author’s varieties maculkeps and ohscurus of the former are good species. 
Ochthebius, Table of N. American species, p. 378 ; 0. /ossa Lee., 
= nitidas, Lee., p. 380. Le Conte, P. Am. Phil. Soc. xvii. 
Hydrocassis, g. n., [presumably] L. Fairmaire, Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. (5) 
viii. p. 88. Very near Hydrohius, but less oblong and convex, with epis- 
toma and labrum widely siuuated, and mesosternum forming a narrow 
keel between the middle coxas, &c. H. scapulata, sp. n., id. 1. c. p. 89, 
Central China. 
Hydrobius feminalis, Detroit, castaneus and cuspidatus, California, 
spp. nn., Le Coute, 1. c. p. 597. 
Philhydrus halophilus, sp. n., L. Bedel, Bulk Soc. Ent. Fr. (5) viii. 
p. clxix., brackish water, British Channel to Mediterranean and Asia. 
Laccobius biguUatus, sp. n , J. Gerhardt, 1. c. Leignitz, Berlin. 
Berosus punctipennis, sp. n., E. v. Harold, Deutsche E. Z. 1878, p. 6?, 
Japan. 
Ochthebius discretus, California and Canada, p 379, rectus, ibid., loivi- 
pennis, p. 381, California, sculptus, p. 381, California and Arizona, tuber- 
culatuSf p. 380, New Mexico, benefossus, p. 381, New Jersey, attritus and 
simplex, p. 380, foveicollis, p. 381, Florida, Le Conte, 1. c. j 0. volxemi, 
Sharp, Ann. Ent. Belg. xx. p. 115, Portugal : spp. nn. 
Cyclonotam (tabulated) sp. n., E. A. Schwarz, P. Am. Phil. 
Soc. xvii. p. 355, Florida. 
Spheeridium sharpi, sp. u., E. v. Harold, MB. Ak. Berl. 1878, p. 210, 
Zanzibar. 
Cercyon sharpi, sp. n., id. Deutsche E. Z. 1878, p. 68, Tokio. 
Staphylinidjs. 
A. Fauvel, Ann. Mus. Genov, xii. pp. 171-315, pis. i. & ii., describes 
the known Staphylinidoi of the Moluccas and New Guinea, 139 in all, of 
which only 19 extend beyond the geographical limits mentioned. The 
Fiestides and Stuphy tinkles predominate. The distribution of the various 
species is noted on tables, and various deductions are made on apparently 
quite insufficient material. 
The same author, op. cit. xiii. pp. 465-598, publishes a second memoir 
on the StapkyUnidve of Australia and Polynesia (chiefly New Caledonia). 
Nine cosmopolitan species are added to the former list ; and the number 
of known species is raised to 351, in 76 genera (including 7 new). The 
JStaphylinides predominate, and Quedius is the genus with most species. 
Revised tables of distribution are given. 
Eppelsheim, Deutsche E. Z. 1878, pp. 385-404, redescribes various 
known species recently recorded from Germany. 
E. Mulsant & C. Rev’s “ Tribu des Brevipennes, Pederiens, et 
Evsesthetiens,” in Ann. Soc. L. Lyon, xxiv. [for 1877, published in 1878], 
6 pis., has not been seen by the Recorder. 
Aleocharulcs. 
Ocalca lalipennis, ah'dip, — rivularis, Mill., ex. typ. j xilcochara ala- 
