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to be credited to nine observers only; and of that number 

 jNIessrs. Matthews, Bold, Hislop, and M'Nab respectively 

 claim one each ; to Mr. Ciiampion must be referred two ; to 

 the Rev. H. S. Gorham, three; to Mr. Crotch, four; to 

 Dr. Sharp, seven; and the remainder to myself. I may 

 observe, that I have in reserve more species to add to our 

 list; but that I hesitate to do so until they sliall have re- 

 ceived from German or French authorities a corroboration 

 which, in the state of affairs existing on the continent, it is 

 impossible for me to obtain at present. 



These thirty-seven additions consist of an A7nara,^ Bern- 

 hidiumy an Actocharis, an Ocalea, two Aleocharce, a Calo- 

 dera, an Oxypoda, a Homalota, a Placusa, an Oligota, a 

 jPhilonthuSf a Xantholinus, a Sunius, a Stenus, a Trogo- 

 pldoeus, an Anisotoma, a Colon, five MeVgethes, two Cryp- 

 fophagi, a DoUchosoma, a Dasytes, a Melo'e, two Trachyph- 

 loei, a Bayous, a BaridiuSj two Tomici, a Ptenidium, a 

 Lathridius, and a Bythinus; and of them ten have been 

 bi'ought forward as also new to science, by Dr. Sharp and 

 myself in equal proportions. One new genus {Actocharis) 

 has also been created by Dr. Sharp. 



The following notes will briefly indicate certain interestins^ 

 papers and observations that have been published since the 

 last "Annual:"— 



Dr. Sharp (Ent. Mo. Mag., vol. vi, p. 253 et seq.), in a 

 most carefully written papei*, has revised tlie Bi-itish species 

 of Hydrohias and Philhydrus, adopting Thomson's addi- 

 tional genera JlJnochrus, Paracyniiis and Anac^ena, and 

 Mulsant's Helochares, for all of which he sives diao^nostic 



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characters, and the principal cibarian organs of which I 

 have illustrated from his dissections. He considers that an 

 arrangement of the species of these genera in accordance 

 with their facies would also be a natural one as regards their 



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