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COLEOPTERA. 



New British Species, Corrections of Nomencla- 

 ture, ETC., NOTICED SINCE THE PUBLICATION OF THE 



Entomologist's Annual, 1870. 



By E. C. Rye. 



Although, compared with some former lists, the result 

 now recorded of the past twelvemonth's work may not espe- 

 cially impress that period upon the memory, the British 

 Coleopterist will not, in all pjohability, be likely to forget 

 1870; during which year (in addition to the depression 

 caused to all departments of science through the chief sources 

 of continental knowledge being dried up by the fierce fires 

 of war) he has had to lament the loss of the great Lacordaire, 

 and of his own countrymen, the gifted and acute Haliday 

 (who, if devoted to Coleoptera alone, would easily have 

 been a second Erichson), and Dawson, the pioneer of the 

 present small band of workers in Britain. That band, small 

 as it is, is practically in imminent danger of reduction by 

 two of its chief members extending, in perhaps the natural 

 course, their field of study, to the detriment of merely British 

 forms; and too many of its effective constituents have made 

 no sign during the past year, so that the thirty-seven addi- 

 tions to our list during that period (apart from insects raised 

 to specific rank at the expense of others before known to us, 

 or of doubtful value, or not yet isatisfactorily determined), are 



