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COLEOPTERA. 
of B. stussineri and subvalidus), Carpathians, anatolicus, id. 1. c. p. 44, 
note, Asia Minor; B. ammon^ p. 133, fig. 13, schamylanus, fig. 14, and 
murida, fig. 15, p. 134, jaso[n\ p. 135, id. Verb. Ver. Brunn, xvi., Cau- 
casus; B. extremitalis, E. Reitter, 1. c. p. 135, Caucasus: spp. nn. 
Euplectus debilis and tenuis, p. 386, cavicollis, p. 387, Florida, integer, 
p. 386, Michigan, Le Conte, 1. c. ; E. frivaldszhii, De Saulcy, Deutsche 
E. Z. 1878, p. 44, Carpathians : spp. nn. 
Trimium (American spp. tabulated, p. 385) convexulum, p. 383, and 
simplex, p. 384, Florida, californicum, p. 383, California, puncticolle, 
Arizona, discolor, Louisiana, and foveicolle, Massachusetts, Le Conte, 
1. c. ; T. planiceps, Reitter, Deutsche E. Z. 1878, p. 384, Greece : spp. nn. 
Articerus ponticus, sp. n.. Sharp, 1. c. p. 62, Mesopotamia (myrme- 
cophilous). 
SCYDMiENlDiE. 
Cephennium turgidum, Reitt., figured ; Verb. Ver. Briinn, xvi. pi. ii. 
fig. 20. 
Conoderua [|| Eschscholtz, Elateridoe, 1829], g. n., De Saulcy, Pet. Nouv. 
ii. p. 221. Differs from Scydmcenus in the very short, conical, very obtuse 
last joint of the maxillary palpi, strongly keeled mesoaternum, and trun- 
cate elytra. Apparently closely allied to Euthia. For S. conicicollis, 
Fairm., and C. tachapecki, sp. n., ibid,, Vienna. The genus again referred 
to as new, with C. parallelocollis, sp. n., by the author, Deutsche E. Z. 
1878, p. 45, Carpathians, this latter species being nevertheless in the 
original diagnosis of the genus referred to as “ r^cemment d^crit.” 
Scydmcenus divisus, E. A. Schwarz, P. Am. Phil. Soc. xvii. p. 357, 
Florida; S. latitans, De Saulcy, Deutsche E. Z. 1878, p. 46, Carpathians : 
spp. nn. 
Euconnus reitteri, sp. n., De Saulcy, Verb. Ver. Briinn, xvi. p. 141, 
pi. iii. fig. 27, Suram Mta., Caucasus. 
Cephennium carpathicum, id. Deutsche E. Z. 1878, p. 45, Carpathians ; 
C. caucasicum and ditomum (pi. ii. fig. 21), id. Verb. Ver. Briinn, xvi. 
p. 139, Suram : spp. nn. 
SiLPHIDiE. 
Necrophorus. On the fossorial habits and astonishing instincts of this 
genus ; W. Eichhoff, S. E. Z. xxxix. p. 411. 
Necrophorus japanus, Har., from Central China, figured and redescribed ; 
[? L. Fairmaire : unsigned] Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. (5) viii. p. 89, pi. iii. 
fig. 5. 
Gamirus, Sharp, preoccupied, is renamed Camiarus ; D. Sharp, Ent. 
M. M. XV. p. 36. 
Necrophorus ocellatus, sp. n. [? L. Fairmaire: unsigned], Ann. Soc. 
Ent. Fr. (5) viii. p. 90, Central China. 
Ptomascopus davidis, sp. n. [P 2 <f.], 1. c. p. 91, Central China [? = 
A.-maculatus, Ktz., var.]. 
Ptomaphagus ventricola, sp. n.j J. Weise, indicated from the Trans- 
