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COLEOPTERA. 



New British Species, Corrections of Nomencla- 

 ture, &c., noticed since the Publication of the 

 Entomologist's Annual, 1861. 



By E. C. Bye. 



Having been requested at a short notice to communicate 

 the present article, I must beg a lenient sentence for the mis- 

 takes it may probably contain, especially as I -vvas quite un- 

 prepared for the task, and have the arrears of two years to 

 notice. 



I have adopted Waterhouse's Catalogue as a basis of 

 operations, presuminir that it is now used by all Coleopterists 

 of repute ; hence, with the exception of species apparently 

 new to science, novelty is merely claimed as regards that 

 work. With reference to this point I must remark that 

 insects have often been recorded as new to Britain, which, 

 on examination, have proved to be merely " old friends with 

 new^ faces ;" consequently a fresh starting-point is necessary, 

 and as Stephens' Manual is out of the question, there 

 remains not only no better, but no other than Waterhouse's 

 Catalogue; to which the w^ords of Flaccus well apply: — 



" si quid novisti rectius istis, 



"Candidus imperii ; si non, his utere mecnni." 



I have added a few hitherto unrecorded localities and 

 notices of captures of rarities, in the hope that they may be 

 of service to others; and these, together with the large 

 number of species requiring comment, occupy so much 

 space that I am compelled to curtail the hitherto voluminous 



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