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The insect here alluded to, and of which Mr. Stevens had 

 previously submitted a specimen to me for examination, is, I 

 have no doubt, a species hitherto unrecorded as British : it 

 is nearly allied to the species standing in our cabinets as 

 Scolytus destructor, but otherwise designated on the conti- 

 nent. As the generic title Eccoptogaster was adopted at 

 my suggestion, and as subsequent investigation has convinced 

 me that this name cannot justly be substituted for Scolytus, 

 I seize this opportunity of at once rectifying the error, and at 

 the same time of pointing out the differences which exist 

 between the present species and the Scolytus destructor of 

 British authors and collections, and of endeavouring to disen- 

 tangle the synonymy of the two species. 



Scolytus, Geoffroy, Hist. Abr. des Ins. i. 309 (1764).* 

 Curtis, Brit. Ent. i., Tab. & Fo. 43 (1824); Steph. Illustr. 

 Mand. iii. 3G1 (1830), Man. Brit. Col. 205 (1839). 



Bostrichus, pt. Fab. Ent. Syst. i. 2, 364 (1792). 



Ekkoptog aster, Herbst. Natursyst. v. 125 (1793). 



Hylcsinus, pt. Fab. Syst. Eleut. ii. 390 (1801). 



Ips, pt., Marsham, Ent. Brit. i. 51 (1802). 



Coptogaster, Duft. Faun. Aust. iii. 106(1825). 



Eccoptoguster, Gyll. Ins. Suec. iii. 346 (1813); Erich. 

 Archiv f. Naturgesch. 1836, i. 58; Ratzeb. Forst. Ins. i. 

 184 (1837). 

 Scolytus Ratzeburgh. 



Eccoptogaster Scolytus, Gyll. Ins. Suec. iii. 346 (1813), 

 excl. var. b. 



Coptogaster scolytus, Duft. Faun. Austr. iii. 106 (1825), 

 excl. var. /3. 



* Fabricius, nearly half a century subsequent to this [Syst. Eleuth. i. 

 217(1801)], applied the name of Scolytus to a genus of Geodephagous 

 Coleoptcra, but for which the generic term, Omophron, imposed by La- 

 treille in the following year [Hist. Nat. Crust, et Ins. viii. 278 (1802)], 

 is universally adopted. 



