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COLEOPTERA. 



New British Species noticed in 1856. 

 By E. W. Jansox. 



1. Agabus pulchellus, Heer; E. Newman, Zool. 5003 



(1856). 

 Captured by G. Wailes, Esq., in Locli Achray, on the 

 north side of Loch Katrine in September, 1853. 



2. Helophorus pumilio, Erich, (not Steph.); Rev. H. 



Clark, Zool. 3051 (1856). 



3. Catops spadiceus, Sturm ; Murray, Ann. and Mag. 



Nat. Hist. 2nd Ser. xviii. 21 (1856). Scotland. 



4. Catops coracinus, Kellner; Murray, Ann. and Mag. 



Nat. Hist. 2nd Ser. xviii. 140 (1856.) 



Genus ADELOPS, Tellkampf in Erichson's Archiv., 



1844, i. 318. Bathyscia, Schiodte, Spec. Faun. 



Subterran. 10 (1849); Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. n.s. 



i. 141 (1851.) 



This genus, established on a single individual of A. hirtus, 



Tellk. loc. clt. (found beneath a stone in one of the branches 



of the celebrated Mammoth Caves of Kentucky,* at a dis- 



* Omitted by Haldeman and Le Conte in the " Catalogue of the 

 Described Coleoptera of the United States," lately published by the 

 Smithsonian Institution. 



