6i Ins. 
COLEOFTERA. 
Riley, C. V. Notes on the Life-History of the Blister Beetles, and on 
the structure and development of Ilornia. Canad. Ent. xi. pp. 30 
& 31. 
Medical value of various Mexican Cantharidce ; H. Gonzalez, El Reper- 
torio, i. p. 12, and Nat. Mex. iv. Rivista Oientifica, pp. 6 & 7. 
Tricrania stanshurii found abundantly among buffalo bones and skulls; 
S. W. Williston, Am. Nat. xiii. p. 25. 
Cantharis vesicatoria. Transformations described or noticed ; Lichten- 
stein, C. R. Ixxxviii. pp. 1089-1092 ; Ann. N. H. (5) iv. pp. 169 & 170 ; 
Bull. & Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. (5) ix. pp. xxv., Ixv., Ixxii., Ixxvi., & 44; OR. 
Ent. Belg. xxii. p. Ixxxviii. ; An. Soc. Esp. viii. pp. 36-38 ; P. E. Soc. 
1879, pp. XXX. & xxxi. ; Ent. M. M. xv. p. 34 ; SB. z.-b. Wien, xxix. 
pp. 31 & 32. The young larva feeds on honey, and is certainly parasitic 
in the nests of bees ; afterwards it becomes a pupa which gives birth to 
another form of larva, which eats nothing, and soon changes into a second 
form of pupa, from which the perfect insect emerges. 
Its powerful and offensive odour; V. R. Perkins, Ent. xii. p. 274. 
Its ravages on lilac, &c., at Lyons ; P. Tillet, Feuill. Nat. ix. pp. 37 & 38. 
Ilornia minutipennu, Riley. Habits and transformations noticed by 
him ; P. Am. Ass. 1878, pp. 284 & 285. 
Sitaris apicalis. Larva parasitic on Colletes fodiens ; J. Lichtenstein, 
Pet. Nouv. ii. p. 298, and Bull. Soc. Ent. Fr. (5) ix. p. xxv. 
New genera and species : — 
Iselma, Haag-Rutenberg, Deutsche E. Z. xxiii. p. 402. Allied to 
Nemognatha, Cantharis^ and Mylahris ; maxillary palpi not threadlike ; 
claws not dentated; eyes rounded, body hairy, autennae slender. To 
contain Meloe ursus, Thoms., and hirsuta, Thunb. (redescribed, pp. 403 & 
404), and the following new species: — I. Jlavipennis (Dej., MS.), p. 404, 
riijipennis (Germ., MS.; ? = Meloe rugosus, Thunb.), brunneipes (Chevr., 
MS.), p. 405, ruhripennis (Dej., MS.), pallidipennis^ p. 406, and erythro- 
p)tera, p. 407, Cape. 
Treiodons barranci, g. & sp. nn., Duges, Nat. Mex. i. pp. 102 & 169, 
pi. i. figs. 1 & 2, Mexico (1870). 
Meloe servulus, F. Bates, Cist. Ent. ii. p. 483, between Leh and Yar- 
kand P. 
Tetraonyx pectoralis (Buq., MS.), Colombia, anthracinus (Buq., MS.), 
p. 257, albo-maculatus (Buq., MS.), Brazil, undulatus, Cayenne, p. 258, 
lugubris, Brazil, p. 259, proteus, Mexico, Honduras, Guatemala, p. 260, 
krausi, p. 262, borrii (with varr. oculatus and ornatus)^ p. 263, zonatus, 
p. 264, (Brazil, haroldi^ Rio Janeiro, p. 265, intermedins ^ S. Gatharina, 
Brazil, croceicollis^ Rio Janeiro, p. 266, bipartitus, Mexico, batesi, Guate- 
mala, Mexico, p. 267, brunnescens, Parana, p. 268, decipiens, Mexico, 
p. 269, angulicollis, Mexico (?), p. 270, rogenhoferi, Brazil, badeniy Mexico, 
Ecuador, p. 271, mniszechiy Colombia, p. 273, variabilis, Brazil, Venezuela, 
p. 274, nigricornis (Klug, MS.), Colombia, Brazil, p. 275, brucki, Brazil, 
p. 288, clythroides, Salto-Grande, dohrniy St. Joao de Rey, p. 290, humer- 
alis (Buq., MS.), p. 291; pallidus, p. 294, Brazil, kirschi, Mendoza, dey- 
