DERMESTlDiE SCABABiEIDJ!;. 
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destroys carpets in N. America ; II. lepidus, Lee., is only a colour var. of 
it. J. A. Lintner, Am. Nat. xii. p. 536. Cf. also H. Hagen, Canad. Ent. 
X. p. 161 (with notes on imported European insect pests), & S. W. Willis- 
ton. Psyche, ii. p. 126. 
Attagenus orientalis^ sp. n., Reitter, Verb. Ver. Briinn, xvi. p. 178, 
Caucasus. 
Hadrotoma quadriguttata, id. Deutsche E. Z. 1878, p. 95, and H. brevi- 
clavis, id. Verh. Ver. Briinn, xvi. p. 179, Caucasus, spp. nn. 
Trogoderma va7'iabilis\_-le], sp. n., E. Ballion, Bull. Mosc. liii. (1) p. 277, 
Kuldja, &c. 
Byrrhid.®. 
Cytilus auricomus specifically differentiated from C. varius ; G. Czwa- 
lina, Deutsche E. Z. 1878, p. 206. 
Pedilophorus subcanus^ sp. n., Le Conte, P. Am. Phil. Soc. xvii. p. 609, 
Lake Superior. 
Limnichus auricomus^ sp. n., Reitter, Verh. Ver. Briinn, xvi. p. 180, 
Caucasus. 
Parnidje. 
Elmis, of which the derivation is given by Latreille, should be written 
Helmis ; the types from De jean’s collection, received by him from 
Latreille, are identical with the subsequently described ceneus, Muller, 
and their specific name, variously written mangeti or maugetii, is named 
after Maug^, and should be written maugei [maugeei'] ; E. maugeti, Er., nee 
Latr., is therefore re-named latreillii. L. Bedel, Bull. Soc. Ent. Fr. (5) 
viii. p. Ixxv. 
Dry ops dicksoni^ sp. n., C. 0. Waterhouse, Ann. N. H. (5) i. p. 491, 
Formosa. 
Lucanidjc. 
Lucanus cervus. On its economy, especially its development early in 
the season (April 9), and a $ with large toothed mandibles ; G. de Rossi, 
Ent. Nachr. iv. p. 227 ; C. Schreiber, tom. cit. p. 259. , 
Nicagus obscurus, Lee. : J. O. Westwood, Pr. E. Soc. 1878, pp. 34-37, 
figs. 3, 3 a-k, figures this species with details, and repeats his association 
of it with the Trogides [Zool. Rec. vii. p. 281]. 
Pseud' ducanus davidis, sp. n., H. Deyrolle, Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. (6) viii. 
p. 93, pi. iv. figs. 1 & 2, Central China. 
Prismognathus dnvidis, sp. n., id. 1. c. p. 94, Central China. 
Nigidius perforatus and Imvigatus, spp. nn., Harold, MT. Miinch. ent. 
Ver. ii. p. 100, W. Central Africa. 
Passalus duplicatus, sp. n., td. 1. c. p. 101, W. Central Africa. 
Soarab2f;id;k. 
Adaptability of structure in the higher forms of Lamellicorns for 
exclusion of the parasites which abound on some of them, eminently shown 
