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COLEOPTERA. , 
Tinotarsua poggei, sp. n., E. v. Harold, MT. Munch, ent. Ver. ii. p. 100, 
W. Central Africa. 
Heicerius blanchardi, sp. n., Le Conte, P. Am. Phil. Soc. xvii. p. 609, 
Massachusetts. 
Paromalus teres^ sp. n., id. 1. c. p. 699, Lake Superior. 
Saprinus pei'mixtus, sp. n., id. 1. c. p. 401, Florida. 
Aci'itus salinus, id. 1. c. p. 402, Florida; A. hopffgarteni, p. 49, Hun- 
gary, Germany, and France, and tataricus, p. 51, in table (also in Verh. 
Ver. Briinn, xvi. p. 154, Caucasus), E. Reitter, Deutsche E. Z. 1878: 
spp. nn. 
Phalacrid.®. 
Olihrus princeps, sp. n., E. A. Schwarz, P. Am. Phil. Soc. xvii. p. 361, 
Florida. 
NiTIDULIDiE. 
D. Sharp, Tr. E. Soc. 1878, pp. 127-140, characterizes a new genus 
and various new species of Carpophilides taken by the Rev. T. Blackburn 
in the Hawaiian Islands, thinking it probable that their nearest allies will 
be found in Wallace’s Indo-Malayan and Austro-Malayan sub-regions. 
The small supplementary segment at apex of abdomen is not invariably 
characteristic of the male. 
Gonioryctus (Blackburn, MS.), g. n., Sharp, 1. c. pp. 128 & 131. With 
coarsely facetted eyes, abbreviated elytra, and greatly developed tarsi. 
Near Brachypeplus and Campysopyga in Murray’s scheme, but probably 
more nearly allied to Epurcea. For G. latus^ p. 129, blackburni and 
monticola, p. 130, spp. nn., Honolulu. 
Cychramptodes, g. n., E. Reitter, Deutsche E. Z. 1878, p. 383. Allied 
to Cychramus and Camptodes^ but more ovate and strongly convex in 
front, with 9- jointed antennse (club as in Thalycra)^ bidenticulate man- 
dibles, approximated posterior coxae, &c. C. murrayi, sp. n., ibid., 
Adelaide. 
Brachypeplus discedens and puncticeps, p. 133, rohustus and reitteri, 
p. 134, infimus and impressus, p. 135, incequalis and [1i\omalioides, p. 136, 
brevis and aper, p. 137, Sharp, 1. c., Hawaiian Isles; B. {Tasmus) brevi- 
cornis, id. Ent. M. M. xv. p. 47, Tairua ; B. glaber, J. L. Le Conte, P. 
Am. Phil. Soc. xvii. p. 398, Florida (belongs to subg. Liopeplus, hitherto 
W. African only) : spp. nn. 
Epurcea zealandica, Sharp, Ent. M. M. xv. p. 48, Tairua; E. carpathica^ 
Reitter, 1. c. p. 51, Carpathians : spp. nn. 
Soronia optata, sp. n.. Sharp, 1. c. p. 48, New Zealand. 
Amphotis martini, sp. n., C. Brisout, Bull. Soc. Ent. Fr. (5) viii. p. Ixiii., 
Sierra Nevada, with a small yellow My r mica. 
Meligethes schneideri, sp. n., Reitter, Verh. Ver. Briinn, xvi. p. 157, 
Caucasus. 
Strongylus literatus, sp. n., id. Deutsche E. Z. 1878, p. 88, Japan. 
C.amptodes biformis, sp. n., id. 1. c. p. 32, Bolivia. 
Cybocephalus syriacus, sp. n., id. I, c. p. 91, Syria and Cyprus. 
