138 [November, 



Agabus (Col^mhetes) sexuaUs, Rciche, is Gaurodytes alpestris, Heer, and O. 

 Solieri, Aube, according ho a type from Scliaum, is tarsatus, Zett. ; Thomson, I. c. 

 p. 368. Supposing Thomson to be right in these determinations, Solieri will stand 

 for the latter species, being four years anterior in date to Zctterstedt's name. 



Homalota londinensis, Sharp, = Atheta Gi/lleuhaU, Thoms. {terminalis, Grylh, 

 nee Grav.) ; Thomson, I. c. p. 376. Thomson, Sk. Col., iii, p. 68, gives the same size 

 for his insect as for elongatula. The terminalis with which Dr. Sharp compares 

 his species is apparently Gravenhorst's. 



Homalota ignohilis, Sharp, = fiingicola, Thoms. ; H. fungicola, Sharp, ^ seri- 

 cans, Thoms. ; Thomson, I. c. 



ActocJiaris Readingi, Sharp (1st May, 1870). — The 5th vol. of the 2nd series 

 of the Bull. Soc. Linn. Normandie, at p. 19, contains the first publication of M. 

 Fauvel's Actocharis marina, for the generic and specific names of which that author 

 claims priority over Dr. Sharp. This 5th vol. is stated to be for ' Annee 1869—70 ' 

 (an amalgamation in one issue of the usual work of two years, evidently caused, as 

 in so many other French works, by the late war), and it bears on its inner title the 

 date 1870, and on its wrapper the date 1871. As will be seen from the result of 

 enquiries of competent authority in France by myself, recorded in the Entomolo- 

 gist's Annual for 1872, p. 30, it is tolerably certain that this volume was not pub- 

 lished at the earhest before the end of 1871, if then. 



ScopcBus sulcylindricus, Scriba, is stated in ' L'Abeille,' viii (1872), p. 326, to 

 be identical with ruhidtis, Muls., and the only locality given is " Grande Bretagne." 

 Scriba himself (Berl. Ent. Zeitschr., 1868, p. 156) records his insect from Spain. 

 S. ruhidus is at all events quite distinct from S. Eyei, WoU. 



OUhrus geminus, piccus, and oblongus. — Seidlitz, Fauna Baltica, p. 157, erects 

 for the reception of these species a new genus OUdherus (a name subsequently 

 changed by him to Stilbus, as Olisthcerus is pre-occupied in the Brachelytra, by 

 Erichson) , distinguished from OUhrus proper by the following characters : — Metas- 

 ternum not reaching in front beyond the middle coxae, and separated from the 

 prosternum by a distinct short mesosternum. Front femora not hollowed out on 

 the under margin, apical spur of tibise distinct, 2nd joint of hind tarsi only slightly 

 elongate, narrower than the 3rd, elytra with only an impressed sutiu-al stria. 



Meligethes memnonius, Wat. Cat. — M. Ch. Brisout de Barneville, to whom I 

 have forwarded examples, tells me (as expected) that this is morosus:, Er. He con- 

 siders that memnonius is intermediate between difficilis and this species, or perhaps 

 a var. of one of them. 



JElater preeustus, Schiodte, nee Fab., is identified by Thomson, I. c. p. 388, with 

 pomorum, (Geoffr.) Germ. ; but he is evidently wrong in this, Schiodte's insect in 

 no way agreeing with the true dull-red, flat-intersticed pomorum, but being palpably 

 pomonce, Stephens ; — an insect which, according to Seidlitz (Fauna Baltica, p. 119), is 

 almost the commonest of its genus in Livonia. 



TrachyphlcBus myrmecophilus, Seidlitz. — Dr. Seidlitz, to whom I have sent one 

 of Mr. Moncreaff's specimens, informs me that it is correctly so named. 



Liosomiis oblongulus, Hoh. — Besides the further two ((?) specimens recorded 

 by Mr. Walker, from Chatham, at p. 84 of the present vol. (and which I have 



