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VVliat this insect, which seems to be genuinely British, though no 

 other example of it has been recorded from these islands, really is, I do 

 not venture to say. It may, though this seems unlikely, be a species 

 confined to Britain. More probably it is a local form (now, perhaps, 

 extinct or on the verge of extinction) of some Continental species, though 

 I should hesitate to refer it to any of those known to me in nature or in 

 collections ; nor do I know any description which completely suits it. 



As for the true (Shuckard's) nigripes, it has never been since 

 recorded from Britain, and, as we have seen, there is no reason to think 

 that it ever occurred there ! It should certainly therefore be omitted 

 from the British List. 



The nigripes of Smith and Saunders, on the other hand, is (or was ?) 

 a British species, but has been called nigripes in error. 1 do not propose, 

 however, to re-name it, since I fully expect that, whenever the Palae- 

 arctic forms of Oxyhelus are dealt with comprehensively, its true 

 affinities will be ascertained, and it will be included in the synonjaiiy 

 of some already described European species. 



{To he continued.) 



NOTES ON THE COLEOPTERA, ETC., EECOEDED FEOM "RESIN 

 ANIME" BY THE EEV. F. W. HOPE (2). 



BY G. C. CHAMPION, F.Z.S. 



The Rev. F. W. Hope's papers on "Succinic Insects" [Trans. Ent. 

 Soc. Lond. i, pp. 133-147 (1836), and ii, pp. 46-57, pi. 7 (1837)] were 

 overlooked by me in my Notes on the three beetles described and figured 

 by the same author in 1842, from specimens found embedded in the 

 recently-formed product " Kesin Anime " (Ent. Mo. Mag. 1917, 

 pjD. 7, 8). A careful study of Hope's second paper, which is accom- 

 panied by a good coloured plate, has enabled me to identify, and give 

 definite localities for, several of his insects, without examination of the 

 actual specimens, which are said to have been contained in the superb 

 collection of Mr. Strong, of Long Acre, London. The names of these 

 beetles, nine in number, are also omitted from the " Municli " Catalogue, 

 and it is desirable to again call attention to them, the s3'nonymy of at 

 least one genus being affected. In two cases Hope ventured to give 

 " Habitat in India Orientali," but this must "be incorrect, the identified 

 forms ndiabiting Africa or Madagascar. The nine Coleoptera, all figured 

 on his plate 7, are additions to my first list, making twelve in all : — 



4. — Osorius brunnicornis, fig. 1 : Staphylinidae. Generic identifi 

 cation doubtless correct 



