90 COLEOPTERA. 



Scolytus destructor, Oliv. Ins. iv. 78, 5; Tab. 1, fig. 4 

 (1795); Curtis, Brit. Ent. i. Tab. and Fo. 43 (1824); 

 Steph. Illustr. Mand. iii. 361, 1 (1830); Man. Brit. 

 Col. 208, 1650 (1839). 



Hylesinus Scolytus, Fab. Syst. El. ii. 390, 1 (1801). 



Ips Scolytus, Marsh. Ent. Brit. i. 53, 6 (1802). 



Eccoptogaster Scolytus, var. b. 1 Gyll. Ins. Suec. iii. 

 347 (1813). 



Coptogaster scolytus, var. /3? Duft. Faun. Austr. iii. 107 

 (1825). 



Eccoptogaster Scolytus, Erich. Archiv. 1836, i. 58,2; 

 Batzeb. Forst. Ins. i. 185, Tab. X. fig. 4 (1837). 



Common in the south of England on the elm. 



28. Corticaria borealis, Wollaston, T. V. Wollaston, 

 App. to Zool. CCVI (1855); Coast of Durham. 



The following have been incorrectly given as unrecorded 

 British species. 



Myrmedoyiia funesta, Grav., Curtis, Proc. Ent. Soc, 

 Lond. January 1st, 1855; Zool. 4603 (1855), is Aleochara 

 funesta, Steph. Illustr. Mand. v. 163,171 (1832\ 



JPella funesta, Steph. Man. Brit. Col. 355, 2763 (1839). 



Gymnusa brevicollis, Payk. Curtis, Proc. Ent. Soc, 

 Lond., January 1st, 1855; Zool. 4603 (1855), is given by 

 Mr. Stephens, Illustr. Mand. v. 433, 141 a (1835), under 

 the name of Aleochara carnivora, Grav., and in his Man. 

 Brit. Col. 372, 2930 (1839), where it is said to have been 

 improperly recorded as British. In last year's Annual (1st 

 edit. 90, 2nd edit. 122) I re-introduced it into the list on the 

 authority of Mr. Haliday, Entom. 188, and of Mr. Hardy, 

 Proc. Berwickshire Nat. Club, II., vii. 283. It has since 

 transpired, Proc. Dublin Nat. Hist. Soc, June 2, 1855 ; 

 Nat. Hist. Review, ii. 118, that Mr. Haliday's insect is 

 referable to Gymnusa variegata, Kiesenwetter, Ent. Zeit. 

 Stettin, 6 Jahrg. 1845, 223. Two individuals, captured in 

 Berwickshire, now before me, and which likewise pertain to 



