SYSTEMATIC (cOLEOPTERA). 
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Ho medium striatum and Acidota crenata in number on walls in a street 
in Briinn ; Wien. ent. Z. iv. p. 26. 
Vellica , g. n., near Lesteva , for V. longipennis , California, sp. n. ; Casey, 
Bull. Cal. Ac. Sci. i. p. 321. 
Eudectus crassicornis, Louisiana, sp. n., Lee., Tr. Am. Ent. Soc. xii. 
p. 4. 
Homalium algarum , p. 316, rugipenne, p. 317, California, spp. nn., 
Casey, Bull. Cal. Ac. Sci. i. 
Phloeopterus longipalpis, California, sp. n., id. t. c. p. 318. 
Lesteva truncata , California, sp. n., id. t. c. p. 322. 
Piestides, Protinides, Micropeplides. 
Lispinodes (?) quadratus, p. 125, pallescens , p. 126, spp. nn., Blkn., 
Tr. R. Dublin Soc. (2) iii. L. explicandus figured; id. t. c. pi. iv. fig. 12. 
Glyptoma blackburni figured ; id. t. c. pi. iv. fig. 11. 
Protinus salebrosus, California, sp. n., Casey, Bull. Cal. Ac. Sci. i. 
p. 323. 
Micropeplus caspius , sp. n. (accompanied by tabulation of all the 
European species), Reitt., Deutsche e. Z. xxix. p. 366. 
PsELAPHIDiE. 
Reitter proposes the following substitutions, the originals being pre¬ 
occupied in other branches of zoology, viz., Eclocranes (for Narcodes, 
King)-, Ipsimus (for Simus , Raffr.), Apenicillus (for Psilocephalus, Raffr.), 
Imirus (for Mirus , Saulcy) ; Wien. ent. Z. iv. p. 228. 
Reitter figures, Deutsche e. Z. xxix., the following Pselapludce : PI. ii., 
Marellus biscrensis , fig. 16; pi. iii., Berlara crassipalpis , fig. 21, Berdura 
excisula , fig. 24, max. palp.. Dicentrius merJcli, fig. 26, max. palp., Bytliino- 
plectus foveatus , fig. 28, Dalmodes rybaxoides, fig. 29, Physoplectus armipes , 
thorax, fig. 30, Mirus permirus , fig. 32, Namunia myrmecopJiila, fig. 33, 
Arctophysis gigantea, fig. 34. 
Reitter, t. c. pp. 321-332, tabulates the Chilian species of Aplodea, 
Bryaxis , and Sagola, and on pis. i. & ii. figures B. puncticeps , bifossifrons , 
kindermanni, and valdiviensis. 
Reitter suggests that Tmesiphorus crassicornis and princeps, Shp., belong 
to the genus Sintectodes, and that Sharp’s Japanese species of Rapliitreus 
are true Tmesiphori # ; t. c. p. 332. • 
Bythinus ( Machcerites ) glabratus, Rye, and Tychus corsicus and T. 
monilicornis, Reitter, found in the Island of Re ; Bonnaire, Bull. Soc. 
Ent. Fr. (6) v. p. liii. 
New species :— 
Metopias hirtus, pi. ii. fig. 17, p. 334, aglenus , p. 335, Brazil, Reitt., 
Deutsche e. Z. xxix. 
Metopioxys , subg. n. of Metopias , with characters of both; id. t. c. 
p. 334. M. gladiator , Brazil, id. t. c. p. 335, pi. ii. fig. 18. 
Sintectodes diver sip alpus, Ceylon, id. t. c. p. 333, pi. ii. fig. 20. 
* These suggestions are not justified.—D. S. 
