88 lus. 
OOLEOPTERA. 
Girard, Bull. Soc. Ent. Pr. (5) vii. pp. cxix.-cxxii. ; cf. also Ent. Nachr. 
iii. pp. 147, 160, 162, 183. A. R. Grote & A. Kayser, iu P. Am. Ass. xxiv. 
(Detroit : 1875), 1876, p. 226, describe experiments with liquid and tinc- 
ture of the potato -beetle, tending to disprove any poisonous quality by 
the insect. A pamphlet by 0. St41, “ Om Colorado -Skalbaggen,” &c., 
Stockholm; 1875, 8vo, pp. 21, fig., has not been seen by the Recorder 
(full title in Pysche ii. p. 96). 
Puropsis, 226 species (nearly half of them new) tabulated in four 
groups, according to the sculpture of the elytra. F. Chapuis, Ann. Ent. 
Belg. XX. pp. 67-100. 
New genus and species : — 
Eurycera&ay Steinheil, 1. c. p. 33. Next Doryphora : of metallic colour, 
and with the three apical joints of antennae forming a wide flat club. E. 
badeniy ibid. pi. i. fig. 5, W. Colombia, and wagneri, p. 35, Ecuador. 
Melasoma japonica [-cwm], E. v. Harold, Deutsche E. Z. 1877, p. 362, 
Hagi, Japan. 
Chrysomela {Timiosticha, Mots.) instabilisy F. W. Maklin, Ofv. Fin. 
Soc. xix. p. 30, Siberia ; C. acuticolliSy L. Fairmaire, Bull. Soc. Ent. Fr. 
(5) vii. p. clxxix.. Gap, Hautes Alpes. 
Calligrapha diatinguenduy p. 518, Nicaragua, and elegantulay p. 519, 
Costa Rica, M. Jacoby, P. Z. S. 1877. 
Leptinotarsa behrensi, Harold, MT. Munch, ent. Yer. i. p. 16, Cali- 
fornia. 
Deuterocampta fasciatay Steinheil, 1. c. p. 35, Colombia. 
Labidomera (Cryptostetha) ocananUy id. 1. c. p. 36, Ocana. 
Doryphora bicoloVy p. 515, ornata and £). (?) antennaliSy p. 516, bisbi- 
maculata, p. 518, Nicaragua, sexmaculata and chrysomeloides, p. 517, Peru, 
Jacoby, 1. c. ; D. bilunatUy p. 183, Upper Amazons, yawi>072i, P- 1^4, Brazil, 
J. S. Baly, Cist. Ent. ii.; D. haroldi, pulchella,bivittaticollis, and ingenua 
(diagnoses only), Ent. M. M. xiii. p. 273, Colombia; D. hemuphcericay 
p. 39, brevisjnna, p. 40, fig. 7, landoUi, p. 41, fig. 2, luteipennis, p. 42, 
arangoiy p. 43, fig. 6, etaliy p. 44, fig. 8, wallisiy p. 45, fig. 4, radiata, p. 46, 
fig. 9, Steinheil, 1. c. pi. i., Colombia. 
Microtheca columhiana, Steinheil, 1. c. p. 47, Bogota. 
Paropsis aciculatay nigro-scutatay pictipes, rujitarsis, p, 68, irrotata, for- 
mosa, p. 69, stali, bipuncticollis, umbrata, contractay p. 70, abdominalisy 
pedestrisy globatUy rubeola, hemisphcericay globtdosa, p. 71, semipunctatay 
hastata, subovaliSy oblonga, (eraria^ p. 72, foraminosa, perplexa, tenebroaay 
slygiay p. 73, iris, meray pictay complexa, p. 74, agricola, Jlavitaraisy ornati- 
colliSy conjugata, subcoatatay p. 76, trimaculata, gemina, nigro-vittata, 
basalia, variabilia, trivittata, p. 76, pluvialis, nigro-atillaia, umbroaUy 
noiatipennia, p. 77, anxia, orphanula (= orphanUy Er., ex. typ.y p. 100), 
delicatula, obovata, vulgariSy p. 78, hectica (Boisd.), citrina, cequaliSy dc- 
floratay ellipticay p. 79, pachyta, flaveolay albicans, inter atitialiSy proximct, 
debilia, p. 80, lucidula, faatidioaa, cernua, confertUy decolorata, p. 81, 
variicorniSy irina, nigritay ceneipennisy diacoidalis, partita, p. 82 ,festivus, 
rufescenSy tenella, mitiSy virens, modesta, p, g3, viridula, subcenescenSy 
cemula, substriata, interrupta, jucunda, venusiulay p. 84, amabiliSy fuaci- 
