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Show 1894.] ON NEW COLEOPTERA OF THE GENUS CEPIONYCHIS. 609 more convex granules on the upper surface of the head and in rostral shield not bordering the nostril; I propose for it the name (Edura nivaria. A description will be published in a forthcoming Report on additions to the Collection of Lizards in the British Museum " \ Mr. C. Davies Sherborn exhibited and made remarks on a copy of the reprint of George Ord's ' North-American Zoology,' recently published in the United States (Haddonfield, New Jersey, 1894). The following papers were read :- 1. Descriptions of new Species of Coleoptera of the Genera (Edionychis and Asphara. By M A R T I N JACOBY, F.E.S. [Eeceived August 1, 1894.] (Plate XXXVIII.) In 1860 a Catalogue of Halticidse was published by the Rev. Hamlet Clark, forming one of the British Museum Catalogues. With very few exceptions, no species of (Edionychis and its allies w7ere described, although they amount to some 450 in number. To make a beginning I have described those species which are at present represented in my own collection, and which I have in all instances compared with the specimens contained in the British Museum and named by Clark, retaining in every case the latter author's name. The genus (Edionychis almost rivals in number of species the genus Diabrotica amongst the Galerucidce, and is as variable in the coloration as is the case with species of the latter genus. All species of (Edionychis can be separated from the allied genus Asphcera by the shape of the thorax, which has broadly flattened sides, with generally slightly outward pointed anterior angles, the same parts in Asphcera being straighter and produced forward, not outward; the metatarsus of the posterior legs is also in all cases very short in (Edionychis and the inflated terminal claw is globular. In Asphcera the corresponding joint is longer, and the claw is but moderately swollen; intermediate degrees I have not observed to any marked extent. With two exceptions, all the species described here are from tropical South America. OEPIONYCHIS ALBIPENNIS (Ok. Catal.). Pale testaceous, the intermediate joints of the antennae and the disc of the thorax black; elytra very finely punctured ; a spot on the shoulder black. Var. a. Obscure fuscous, the elytral spot absent, the tibiae and tarsi black. 1 [Vide infra, p. 722.-ED.] PROC. ZOOL. Soc-1894, No. XLI. 41 |