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duras, Guatemala, Nicaragua, and humeralis, fig. 19, Clioutales, p. 31, id. 
1. c. pi. ii. 
Chrysobothris omeifrons , Fairmaire, Revoil’s Faune et Flore Qomal. 
Col. p. 53, Somali-land. 
EUCNEMIDJ5. 
Eucnemis emyi, Rouget, is omitted iu recent catalogues ; Bedel, Bull. 
Soc. Ent. Fr. (G) ii. p. cxliv. 
Cryptostoma dohrni , Horn, noticed and figured by him ; Tr. Am. Ent. 
Soc. x. p. 124, pi. vi. fig. 13. 
Hylotastes terminatus, sp. n., Pascoe, Ann. N. H. (5)jlx. p. 26, Water- 
house, Aid, ii. pi. ciii., Sarawak. 
ELATERIDiE. 
Candeze, E. Elaterides nouveaux. 3“© fascicule. MGm. Liege (2) ix. 
pp. 1-117. 
242 now specios described, including many now gonora. 
Horn discusses the characters of the Elaterides (Tr. Am. Ent. Soc. x. 
pp. iii. & 122-124). He regards the Buprestulce and Throscidas as two 
wholly independent families, and gives the following table of the other 
groups : — 
Posterior cox® laminate. Trochanters small. 
Labrum concealed ; ungues simple; an ton me somewhat distant from 
the eyes, their insertion narrowing the front . . . Eucnemince. 
Labrum visible, free; ungues variable; antennae arising near the 
eyes, front not narrowed Elaterince. 
Labrum transversely connate with the front. 
Yentral segments six ; ungues simple ; antennae as in the Ela- 
terince ; tibial spurs well developed Cebrionince. 
Yentral segments five ; ungues serrate ; antennae slightly distant 
from the eyes, front narrow ; spurs moderate . . Perothopince. 
Posterior coxae not laminate. Trochanters of middle and posterior legs 
very long. 
Labrum short, transverse, connate with the front ; front gibbous ; 
ungues serrate Cerophytince. 
G Elaterides from the Crimea noticed ; Yon Heyden, Deutsche E. Z. 
xxvi. p. 154. 
Effect of rape-cake on wireworms ; Ormerod, P. E. Soc. 1882, p. xix. 
Alaus oculatus , popularly described and figured ; Saunders, Rep. E. Soc. 
Ont. 1881, pp. 21 & 22, fig. 8. 
Eudactylus discoidalis, Cand., occurs at Natal, and not in America ; 
E. W. Janson, Cist. Ent. iii. p. 37. 
Trier epidius triangulicollis, Motsch., = Ischiodontus ferreus, Lee.; Horn, 
Z. c. p. v. 
Drasterius bimaculatus and Ileteroderes crucifer , Rossi. Various forms 
discussed ; Letzner, JB. schles. Ges. lix. pp. 350-352. 
