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nees : = caeca, Fauv., = paradoxa, Saulcy, with which diecTci, Saulcy, is 
also possibly identical ; A. Fauvel, Bull. Soc. Ent. Fr. (5) vii. p. cliii. 
Phlceocharis parallela, sp. n., A. Fauvel, 1. c. p. clii., Algeria. 
MicropepUdes. 
This group, retained in the Staphylinidce, with descriptions of the 
known N. American species ; J. L. Leconte, 1. c. pp. 260-252. 
Micropeplua obliquus, sp. n., id. 1. c. p. 252, British Columbia. 
PsELAPHIDiE. 
SciiAUFUSS, L. W. Pselaphiden Siam’s. Dresden : 1877, 4to, pp. 25. 
Describes new species in the author’s collection, and characterizes as 
new, genera also discussed as undescribed in Nunq. Ot. ii. p. 450 et seq. ; 
Zethus, Schauf. [Zool. Rec. xiii. Ins. p. 40], is recharacterized. 
The same author, Nunq. Ot. ii. pp. 450-460, continues his notices of 
various genera, describing in some cases representatives of some of his 
own hitherto without types, and indicating new genera. Machaerites 
plicatulus, Schauf., is the type of Facetus, Sch. 
A. Raffray, R. Z. (3) v. p. 279 et seq., describes new genera and species 
found by himself in his voyages to Abyssinia and Zanzibar. 
New genera and species : — 
Octomicrus, Schaufuss, Nunq. Ot. ii. p. 452. Follows Bryaxis ; antennas 
with 8th joint smaller than 9th or 7th. No type mentioned. Again 
characterized ; id. Psel. Siam’s, p. 14, for 0. longulua, ibid., Bangkok. 
Metaxoidea, id. Nunq. Ot. ii. p. 453. Allied to Metaxia, Mots. ; aritonnos 
with joints 9-11 almost as long as 1-7. No typo mentioned. Again cha- 
racterized ; id. Psel. Siam’s, p. 13, for M. hruchiformis, ibid., Bangkok. 
Margaris, id. Nunq. Ot. ii. p. 453. Robust, with thick antennas and 
legs, and very thin maxillary palpi ; facies of Tmesiphorus. Type, M. 
imperialis, p. 454, Rockhampton. 
Filiger, id. 1. c. p. 454. Follows Gamha, Schauf. ; with last joint of 
maxillary palpi filiform, acuminate. No type. Again characterized ; id. 
Psel. Siam’s, p. 17, for F. ampliventris, cariniventria, and conicicollis, ibid., 
Siam. 
Somatipion, id. Nunq. Ot. ii. p. 457. Allied to Chennium, with two 
equal claws, five abdominal segments, narrowly margined, 3-jointed 
maxillary palpi, with last joint cultriform. Type, S. glohulifer, p. 468, 
King George’s Sound. 
Enantius, id. 1. c. p. 459. Also allied to Chennium, with 3-jointcd 
maxillary palpi, and joints 8-11 of antennas elongate, more than half the 
length of the whole. No type. Again characterized ; id. Psel. Siam’s, 
p. 18, for E. punctipennia, ibid., Bangkok. 
SuhuUpalpus, id. Nunq. Ot. ii. p. 459. Allied to Narcodes, King, with 
fourth joint of maxillary palpi very small, awl-shaped. No type. Again 
characterized, and distinguished from Centrophthalmus, id. Psel. Siam’s, 
p. 23, for S. spinicoxis, ibid., Bangkok. 
