54 COLEOPTERA. 



Mr. Pinder last August, at Sawley, Lancashire. This is the 

 second instance only of the occurrence of this rare species in 

 England. 



Bemhidium bistriatum. In profusion at the beginning 

 of October at Holme Bush, near Hurst, Sussex. 



Bemhidium Sto7noides. Under rejectamenta on the 

 banks of the river Ribble, near Preston, Lancashire. 



Bembidia.—In the supplementary notes on the Euro- 

 pean Bembidia by M. Jacquelin-Duval, which were read 

 before the Entomological Society of France on the 25th 

 of July, 1855, and subsequently published in the third 

 volume of the " Annales' 1 of that society, the author takes 

 exception to the nomenclature which I have employed for 

 certain species, inasmuch as it differs from that which, after 

 mature deliberation, he himself had adopted in his mo- 

 nograph on this group of insects. These critical remarks 

 seem to call for some notice on my part, and will hardly 

 be considered out of place in a paper which is avowedly 

 accepted as supplementary to the " Geodephaga Britan- 

 nica." 



1. Our author observes, that, in four instances, I have 

 declined to connect a (supposed) variety with an alleged 

 type, namely, B. testaceum with tricolor; tibiale with 

 fasciolatum ; Stomoides with rujipes, and affine with 

 nitidulum; partly on the ground, that the alleged types 

 of the three former have never been found in England, and 

 partly for the (to myself at least) very essential reason, 

 that I have not been able to connect them. At the same 

 time, our author adds, that I express no doubt as to the 

 value of his conclusions, and that the mere absence of the 

 type does not authorize the substitution of a name used for a 

 variety in lieu of that of the type itself. The truth em- 

 bodied in the last observation, I readily admit ; but it might 



