66 Ins. 
CO LEO PTE RA. 
Lepidiota ; Tricholepis should be transferred to the Jlhizotroginoi : id. Z. c. 
p. 499. 
Lachnosterna fasca : larva? destroyed by moles ; Claypole, Canad. Ent. 
xiv. pp. 17 & 18. L. obesa , Lee., = crassina , Bl.; farcta , Lee., is distinct. 
Horn, Nunq. Ot. iii. p. 560. 
Polypliylla. Kraatz discusses the Palsoarctic species, of which he 
admits 7, including 1 new ; Deutsche E. Z. xxvi. pp. 234-241. P . 
adspersa, Moschl., noticed; Dohrn, S. E. Z. xliii. p. 107. 
Melolontha. European species discussed by G. Metzler, who regards 
M. albida , Friv. (= candicans , Burm.), and pectoralis , Germ. (= aceris , 
Fald.), of which last rhenana, Bach (= albida , Er.) is a variety, as per- 
fectly distinct from M. vulgaris, Fabr. ; Deutsche E. Z. xxvi. pp. 229-234. 
On preparing oil and soap from the beetles ; Wiener landwiirthschaft- 
liche Zeitung, quoted in Psyche, iii. p. 360. M. vulgaris ; periodical 
appearance ; De Borre & Selys-Longchamps, CR. Ent. Belg. xxvi. pp. cxii. 
& cxiii. A specimen with two extra tibiae growing from the left hind 
femur ; Treuge, Ent. Nachr. viii. p. 177. Larva barking youug pines ; 
Ormerod, P. E. Soc. 1882, p. xii. 
Elaphocera. Kraatz publishes a revision of this genus, and raises the 
number of known species to 32 ; l. c. pp. 17-32. 
Pachypus. Ragusa gives the synonymy of the 2 Sicilian species as 
follows : — P. census, Erichs. (= siculus , Lap., = impressus , Er.), and P. 
cognatus , Oliv. (= Candidas , Mills., = excaratus , Fabr. & Feisth.) ; /. c. 
pp. 229-231. 
New genera and species : — 
Sericospilus , Sharp, Tr. E. Soc. 1882, p. 83. Allied to Odontria\ type, 
0. advena , sp. n., 1. c. p. 84, New Zealand. 
Eutrichesis , Waterhouse, Tr. E. Soc. 1882, p. 499. Allied to Schizony- 
cha ; to include E. punctatus, p. 500, pilosicollis and placidus , p. 501, 
spp. un., 1. c. y Madagascar. 
Cryphceobius , Kraatz, Deutsche E. Z. xxvi. p. 313. Placed between 
Ancylonycha and Polypliylla ; club of antennae short, trifoliate ; sides of 
thorax strongly angulated. Type, C. brunneus, sp. n., Z. t\, Samarcand. 
Hoplia misella , Schaufuss, Nunq. Ot. iii. p. 553, Andalusia, Portugal. 
Serica bombycina , Karsch, B. E. Z. xxvi. p. 387, Colombo. 
I'rochalus margaritaceus , Lansberge, R^voil’s Faune et Flore Qomal. Col. 
p. 22, Somali-land. 
Apogonia planifrons , Borneo, insulana, Isle de Prince, calva , Celebes, 
comosa, Ceylon, p. 122, squamipennis , Persia, nasalis , Hedebat, Dar 
Sennaar, arta, New Guinea, lurida , ctquabilis , anfracta , Ceylon, munda , 
Siam, and cava , Ceylon, p. 123, Karsch, 1. c. ; A. ritsemce, Sharp, Notes 
Leyd. Mus. iv. p. 159, Java. 
Encya calva , p. 495, pyriformis , gutlicollis , p. 496, invulncrata , p. 497, 
variegata , p. 498, and cribrata, p. 499, Waterhouse, Tr. E. Soc. 1882 (r/. 
also p. 493), Madagascar. 
Enaria latifrons , rnarginata , p. 494, and depressiuscula, p. 195, *7/. Z. t\, 
Madagascar. 
