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COLEOPTERA. 
section of Aids ; allied to Lechriomus and Cyphogenia ; type, S. peregrina 
(Ersch., MS.), sp. n., 1. c. p. 49, Samarcand. 
Scaur ides. 
Scaurus macricollis , Allard, Bull. Soc. Ent. Fr. (G) ii. p. lxxxvii., Meso- 
potamia, Egypt ; S. breviatus, La Calle, p. 33, lucululus , Algeria, p. 34, 
and sublcevis , Tangiers, p. 36, Desbrochers, Bull. Ac. Hipp. 1881 : spp. nn. 
Blaptides. 
Allard, E. Essai de Classification des Blapsides de l’Ancien Monde. 4e et 
derni&re partie. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. (G) ii. pp. 77-140, figs. 84-135. 
A table of species is appended. 
Prosodes lucida , Ball., redescribed; Kraatz, Deutsche E. Z. xxvi. 
p. 324. 
New species : — 
Blaps longicornis , id. 1. c. pp. 95 & 32 G, Margelan, Samarcand ; B. 
brunnea , Allard, Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. (G) ii. p. 89, fig. 93, Himalaya. 
Leptocolena emodci, Himalaya, fig. 123, p. 128, and foveicollis , Malta, 
p. 132, id. 1. c. 
Agroblaps amurensis , Manchuria, fig. 108, p. 109, mcerens, East Indies, 
fig. 117, p. 119, and bipunctata, fig. 102, Ekaterinost, p. 127, id. 1. c. ; A. 
akinina , id. 1. c. p. 135, S. E. Z. xliii. p. 388, Turkistan. 
Blcipisa caraboides, id. II. cc. pp. 135 & 389, Turkistan. 
Stalagmoptera heydeni, p. 326, incostata, tuberculosa , p. 327, and varr. ? 
intermedia and modesta , S. dubia, striata , p. 328, and mollis, p. 329, Kraatz, 
l. c.y Samarcand. 
Dineria puella , Allard, Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. (6) ii. p. 102, fig. 102, Kur- 
distan. 
Prosodes parallelocollis , Margelan, p. 95, parnmpunctata , p. 321, unda- 
lata , oblique sulcata, p. 322, diloides , p. 323, heydeni , p. 324, pygmcea , 
p. 325, and minima , Samarcand, p. 326, Kraatz, l. c. 
Asidides. 
Asida lorcana and clementii , Perez, noticed ; Kraatz, Deutsche E. Z. 
xxvi. pp. 46 & 47. 
Asida moraguezi , sp. n., Schaufuss, Nunq. Ot. iii. p. 534, Balearic 
Islands. 
Pimeliides. 
Ocnera hispida , var. grceca described ; Desbrochers, Bull. Ac. Hipp. 
1881, p. 41. 
Centrocnemis , g. n., Kraatz, Deutsche E. Z. xxvi. p. 330. Allied to 
Lasiostola , but thorax much more distinctly contracted behind, and 
elytra longer ; type, C. mollis , sp. n., 1. c., Samarcand. 
New species : — 
Trigonoscelis contraria and sinuatocollis, Desbrochers, Bull. Ac. Hipp. 
