66 Ins. 
COLEOPTERA. 
ricollia^ Horn, Lacconotus punctatus, Lee., and a few new species. The 
MycteridcB appear to be allied to the Melandryidce and Pythidee^ but 
nearest to the former. The writer regards it as an open question whether 
these two families themselves should remain separated. 
Mycterus canescens^ sp. n., Horn, Tr. Am. Ent. Soc. vii. p. 337, Cali- 
fornia, Nevada. 
Lacconotus pinicola^ sp. n., id. 1. c. p. 338, Colorado, W. Nevada. 
AOLYCYDERlDiE. 
Proterhinus. D. Sharp discusses the characters of this genus, and 
reasserts his opinion that it should be placed with Aglycyderes in an 
isolated family at the beginning of the Phynchophora. Tr. E. Soc. 1879, 
pp. 78-81. 
Proterhinus nigricans, p. 95, and callaris, Kauai, humeralis, p. 96, 
pusillus and longulus, p. 97, Honolulu, basalis, Kauai, sternalis, p. 98, and 
lecontii, p. 99, Maui, and paradoxus, Honolulu, p. 100, id. 1. c., spp. nn. 
CURCULIONIDJ}. 
Aulessanty (L*ARB]^i de). Rhyncophores de PAmerique du nord du 
Mexique. Mem. Soc. Aube, xlii. 
[Not seen by the Recorder.] 
Hypera rumicis and Cionus scrophularice. The cocoons formed by 
these species, and by various parasites of the former, are described by 
J. A. Osborne, Ent. M. M. xvi. pp. 16-18. 
Br achy derides. 
Naupactus darius, Germ., is a Eurymetopus; N. lacertosus, Er., is a 
Pantoplanes ; N. stupidus, nohilis, and crudelis. Boh., belong to Panto- 
merus. A. Chevrolat, Bull. Soc. Ent. Fr. (6) ix. p. exxx. 
Polydrosus binotatus, Thoms. (1868), = melanostictus, Chevr. (1869), = 
arvernicus, Desbr. (1869) ; Hey den, Deutsche E. Z. xxiii. p. 167. 
Cyphus hilaris, Perty, is distinct from IQ-punctatua, L. ; C. A. Dohrn, 
S. E. Z. xl. p. 247. 
New genera and species : — 
Hoplopactus (Jekel), Chevrolat, Bull. Soc. Ent. Fr. (6) ix. p. Ixxxiv. 
Allied to Naupactus and Plectrophorus ; to include N. injucundus, Sch. (of 
which N. temperans, Sch., is the $ ), N. pavidus. Boh., Mimographus den- 
tipes, Kirsch, and H. inustus, Caraccas, and impubery N. Granada, spp. nn., 
1. c. p. Ixxxv. 
Cyphopsis, Roelofs, CR. Ent. Belg. xxii. p. lii. Allied to Cyphus ; types, 
C.jekeli and clathratus, spp. nn., 1. c., Brazil. 
Cnemidothrix, Fairmaire, Le Nat. i. (3) p. 3. Allied to Apocyrtis; 
type, Q. protensus, sp. n., 1. c., Viti. 
