78 Ins. 
TNSECTA. 
Brachypeplus: notes on the classification of the Hawaiian species of : 
Blkn., Tr. R. Dublin Soc. (2) iii. pp. 138-141. 
Rhizopjhagus ccereuleus , nitidulus : characters of; Thoms., Bull. Soc. 
Ent. Fr. (6) v. p. cix. 
New cjenus and species :— 
Platynema , n. n. for Ortho gramma , Murr. ([nee Guenee), and P. olUffi, 
sp. n., Andaman Is. ; Rits., Notes Leyd. Mus. vii. p. 29. 
For Cybocephalus spp. nn., cf. Sliphidee. 
Brachypterus ( Heterostomus) viliger , South Europe, Reitt., Wien. ent. 
Z. iv. p. 316. 
A mart as strobli , Mesopotamia, id. Deutsche e. Z. xxix. p. 376. 
Brachyleptus aurosus , Turcomania, id. t. c. p. 377. 
Heterostomus longulus , Portugal, id. ibid. 
Cillceus apicatus , Fairmaire, Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. (6) iv. p. 227, Mada¬ 
gascar. 
Brachypeplus olinda , p. 132, torvus, kcelensis , p. 13?>,jloricola , p. 134, 
quadraticollis, parallelus , p. 135, expers , spretus , p. 136, bicolor , p. 137, 
Blkn., celatus , p. 134, apertus , p. 135, Shp., Hawaiian Arch., Tr. R. Dublin 
Soc. (2) iii. 
Gonioryctus fugitivus , similis , Hawaiian Arch., Blkn., £. c. p. 131. 
Rhizophagus erichsonii , gyllenhalli, spp. nn. (no locality given), con¬ 
founded by previous observers with A. parallelocollis ; Thoms., Bull. 
Soc. Ent. Fr. (6) v. p. cviii. 
Tbogositidj:. 
Asana , g. n., near Lipaspis , for Trogosita rhyzophagoides , Walk. ; Oil., 
P. Linn. Soc. N. S. W. x. p. 71. 
Mela mb ia pumila, sp. n., Burmah, Leveille, Aim. Mus. Genov. (2) ii. 
p. 199. 
Alindria australis , sp. n., S. Africa, Periug., Tr. S. Af. Soc. iii. p. 86. 
Trogosita reitteri , sp. n., Columbia, Kirsoh, B. E. Z. xxix. p. 207. 
COLYDIID^E. 
[C/. Sharp (313, 314).] 
Sharp proposes to suppress the group Colydiini , uuiting it and Dere - 
taphrini , Horn, under the latter name; J. L. S. xxix. p. 60. 
Sharp, t. c., figures or notices the following kuown species or genera of 
this family :—Dastarcus (= Pathodermus, Fairm.), p. 59, note, Pseudo- 
tarphius , p. 63, Colobicus emarghiatus var., p. 66, Gicones , p. 67. Xuthia 
niponica , Lew., p. 71, Teredolcemus polities , Lew., pi. iii, fig. 7, Tarphio - 
soma, Woll., p. 119, Trachypholis erichsoni , pi. vi. fig. 3, Erotylathris , 
p. 127, Prolyctus, p. 128, P. bituberculatus, pi. vi. fig. 9, Pycnomerus alter- 
nans , Reitt., pi. vi. fig. 7. 
Neoplatus , n. n, for Tar phi soma, Motsch., nec Woll. ; 57. £. c. p. 119. 
A^ew; genera and species :—- 
Optis, near Endophlceus , for 0. bicarinata , sp. n., Borneo ; Pasc., P. E. 
Soc. 1885, p. xiii. 
