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Of Tenebrionides , Westwood (Arct. Ent. pi. 87) lias figured the severalspecies of the remarkable genus Chiroseelis, including a very handsome newone, australis , from Southern Africa ; but Ch. passaloides, Westw., canscarcely remain associated with this genus, the many-toothed fore shanks,broad hind shanks toothed at the tip outside, and the absence of the charac-teristic spots on the second segment of the abdomen, presenting differencesof moment.
Fischer v. W. (Bull. Mosc. 123) has added to the genus Calcar twonew species, crassipes and sulcatus , from Southern Russia.
Of the Uiaperiales we have new species, Vloma fahrmi and westringii,Mannerk. (Bull. Mosc. 850, 857), from Java , and Boletophagus tricostatusand granulatm, Fisch. (ibid. 128), the former from Turkestan , the latterfrom Songary.
New species of the Helopii are Helops anthracinus (Dej.), Kiister (Kaf.Eur.i,47), from Sicily ; H. sulcatus , Fisch. (Bull. Mosc.124), from Anatolia ;and Strongyliumrufipeme, Kollar and Redt. (Hug. Kaschm. 533, pi. 25, f. 3),from Cashmere .
Cistelides. —Mannerheim (Bull. Mosc. 197), has found in Finland anew species, Mycetochares bimaculata, in decayed birch timber.
Melandryad^s. —Braselmann (Verhandl. Naturf.Yereiuspreuss. Rhein-land.—Yr. 1, p. 17) has given some account of the transformation ofOrchesia micans. The larva, of which no farther description is given, livesin the common tinder boletus (Polyporus igniarius ), winters there, andchanges in spring, so that the perfect insect comes out in May. The authorhas attended more particularly to the mode in which this species leaps,which is effected by means of the hind legs, when the insect is laid on itsback, in the same manner as in the Water-beetles, as Cybister andLaccophilus.
MokdellonjE. —Suffrian (Ent. Zeit. 25) has pointed out the characterswhich distinguish the sexes in the species of Anaspis. In the male of A.frontalis the segment last but two of the abdomen has a pair of narrow leaf-shaped appendages. This peculiar character is found in like manner inseveral other species which resemble the one named, including flam andobscura, Gyll. In A. biguttata, Marsh., the male is to be distinguished onlyby a sharp ridge down the middle of the last segment. In A. ruficollis andthoracica, and in the broader species in general, the author has discoveredno external differences between the sexes.
Anew species of Mordella is M. troglodytes , Mannerk. (Bull. Mosc. 198),from Finland . It is allied to M. pusilla, Dej.
Lagriarus. —To the genus Lagria have been added the new species eenea,variabilis and bicolor, Kollar and Redt. (Hug. Kashm. 533), fromCashmere ; andi. aureopilosu,h<i Guillou(Rev. Zool. 225),fromNew Guinea.