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second joint small; the five next the club submoniliform; the club large, oval,pointed, covered with fine hairs. The eyes roundish. Prothorax posteriorlyas broad as the base of the elytra. Elytra broadest behind the base, ribbed.The legs rather short; femora thick, in the first pair bowed, and having awide obtuse tooth; middle tibiae with a strong tooth near the point. A. newspecies, Ps. sulcatus, above 4"' long; from New Zealand .
Waterhouse’s monograph on the Philippine species of Pachyrhynchus hasappeared in the ‘Trans. Ent. Soc. of Lond.,’ iii, p. 310. The species alreadyin part known by previous diagnoses, amount to twenty-three. The speciesdescribed by Chevrolat (vid. Report for 1841, p. 242) are not mentionedby the author; beside those noticed (1. c.), however, only orbifer, Wat., andfimbriatus , Chev., coincide. But the majority of Chevrolat ’s specieshave been referred by the author as varieties to his P. orbifer; althoughI have no doubt that this applies to P. circuliferus , and alboguttatus,Ch., and should have little hesitation in uniting P. gemmans, pretiosus,scintillans, ardens, and globulipennis, Ch., under one species, yet I cannotpersuade myself that with the different position of the scales this shouldalso be united with P. orbifer. The author, however, goes still further,since in conclusion he expresses the opinion, that even P. moniliferus andchlorolineatus are also included in this range of varieties, and that theymust be regarded merely as varieties of one and the same species, dependentupon locality, or other causes.
The same author’s monograph on the Philippine species of Apocyrtus,noticed in the last year’s Report, has been concluded in the ‘Ann. Nat. Hist.’xi, p. 247. Of the 17 previously described species, in the first place, A. metal-lieu^, and lavicollis have been united as varieties, and A. gibbirostris, andsubfasciatus have also been associated under A. Erichsonii, Chevr.; and then,besides the three species proposed by me in Meyer’s ‘ Reise,’ eight othernew species are added, so that 26 species in all are known from the Philip pine Islands .
Piaromias , Sch., has been increased by Gebler (Bull. Acad. Petersb. i,p. 39) with two new species, P. karelinii and inauratus, both from the steppesof Zongaria.
As new Curculiones Redtenbacher (Russegg. Reis, i, p. 988) has de-scribed, Bruchus signatus, Phytonomus pictus, from Cyprus ; Tychiusalboguttatus, and Mononychus syriacus, from Syria . The first is Bruchush-guttatus, 01.
New species from Angola are, Dereodus acuminatus, Tanymecus humilis,Siderodaclylus cuspidatus, Alcides leucogrammus, Baridius alcyoneus, Erich-son (1. c.)
Mannerheim (Bull. Mosc. p.289-298) has enumerated the following new spe -cies of Curculiones and Bostrichi: 1. Prom California— Apion troglodytes,