64 Ins. 
COLEOPTERA. 
Soc. Metz (2) xv. [1880] pp. 155-160, with figures of antennae. A. 
varius, Fabr. : habits and times of appearance. A. niusceorum, Linn. 
(= castanece ) Mels.), frequents flowers in America, and never attacks 
collections of insects; Hamilton, l. c. pp. 90 & 91. A. scrophularice, 
Linn., noticed and transformations figured ; Lintner, Rep. Ins. N. Y. i. 
pp. 9 & 10. 
New genera and species : — 
Acolpus, Jayne, P. Am. Phil. Soc. xx. p. 360. Differs from Trogo- 
derma by the absence of the antennal fossae. Type, A. primus, sp. n., 
1. c. p. 361, fig. 45, Texas. 
Axinocerus , id. 1. c. p. 367. Allied to Cryptorrhopalum , but more broadly 
oval ; clypeus long, retracted ; and club of antennae differently formed. 
Type, A. americanus , sp. n., 1. c. p. 368, Texas. 
Dermestes favarcqui , Godard, Ann. Soc. L. Lyon, xxix. p. 383, China. 
Attagenus horni , figs. 18, 19, 24, & 25, Pacific States, perplexus, 
Nevada, p. 356, and varicolor , figs. 20, 21, 27, & 28, Pacific States, p. 357, 
Jayne, P. Am. Phil. Soc. xx. 
Trogoderma simplex , figs. 51 & 52, and sternale , fig. 50, id. 1. c. pp. 362 
& 363, Western States ; T. trizonatum , Fairmaire, C.R. ent. Belg. xxvii. 
p. clvi., Biskra. 
Anthrenus vorax , Waterhouse, Ann. N. II. (5) xi. p. 61, India. 
Orphilus oscitans , Olliff, Tr. E. Soc. 1883, p. 185, N.E. Borneo. 
Parnidas. 
Beling describes the transformations of Pomatinus substriatus, Mull., 
Parnus auriculatas , 111., and the pupae of Elmis volhnari and ceneus , 
Miill.; Verh. z.-b. Wien, xxxii. pp. 437-442. 
Lareynia , Duval, = Elmis , Latr. ; for Elmis , Muls., the name Latel- 
mis is proposed : Reitter, Deutsche E. Z. xxvii. p. 75. 
Protoparnus , g. n., Sharp, Ent. M. M. xx. p. 26. Allied to Parnus ; 
body simply pubescent ; eyes small and entirely facetted ; antennae 10- 
jointed, second joint not articulate ; joints four to ten furnished with an 
elongate process ; metasternum short. Type, P. veslitus, sp. n., ibid., New 
Zealand. 
Elmis concolor , sp. n., Leconte, Tr. Kansas Ac. vii. [1881] p. 75, 
Santa Fe. 
Lucanidac. 
Albers, G. Beitriige zur Kenntniss exotischer Lucaniden. Deutsche 
E. Z. xxvii. pp. 221-230. 
The following known species are discussed : — Dorcus brevis , Say (rede- 
scribed) ; D. alcides , Voll., is a Eurytrachelus , allied to E. saiga , Oliv., 
cribriceps , Chevr., and purpurascens , Yoll. ; Eurytrachelus candezii , Parry, 
and probably lansbergii , Gestro, = eurycephalus , Burm. ; Eurytrachelus 
concolor , Blanch., and ceramensis , Thoms., = saiga , Oliv., but saiga of 
recent authors must take the name of gypaetus , Cast.; ffigus philip- 
