84 COLEOPTERA. 



to state, that no sooner did the liberal and learned author 

 ascertain that I had undertaken a synonymic enumeration 

 of the British Coleo}Jtera, than he forthwith transmitted me 

 his manuscripts, Math the unqualified permission to avail 

 myself of the valuable and otherwise unattainable information 

 with which they were replete. Limited leisure and con- 

 sequent slow progress in my task, rendering it probable that 

 a considerable period would elapse ere I arrived at this 

 group, Dr. Gray suggested to Mr. Walton that his 

 Catalogue should be immediately made available to the 

 public. To this he acceded, and, on the 13th of the present 

 month, an unostentatious duodecimo in the familiar official 

 blue wrappers— entitled " A List of the British Curculionidae, 

 with Synonyma. By John Walton, F. L. S., &c. London. 

 Printed by order of the Trustees. 1856" — was published 

 by the authorities of the British Museum. 



London, 



October Slst, 1856. 



Postscript. 

 Antherophagus niyricornis, F., is A. silaceus, Gyll., 

 Steph., and should, therefore, not have been included in the 

 foregoing List. The Fabrician name has priority. 



54. Tropideres sepicola, Herbst. 



A single example found on the 18th of August last, by 

 Mr. F. Plant, of Leicester, in a decayed oak bough, of which 

 he had carried home a bag-full for examination from Buddon 

 Wood, near Quorndon, Leicestershire. The specimen was 

 sent up for determination to Mr. F. Smith, and has been 

 identified by that gentleman with continental examples in the 

 National Collection. A figure of it will, with our Editor's 

 permission, be given in the plate of next year's Annual. 



November 24th, 1856. 



