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containinf:: the introductory portion of the work, has been 

 completed; but no idea can be formed from it of the method 

 in which the practical portion will be treated, except that 

 it may at least be opined that it will be exhaustive. 



M. Pandelle's monograph of the European Tachyporidae 

 (iVnn. Soc. Ent. de France, 4me ser., T. ix, 1869, p. 261 

 et seq.) has been abstracted by myself in the Entomologist's 

 Monthly Magazine, vol. vi, pp. 209 — 12, with especial 

 regard lo the British species. In it, Lamprinus is generically 

 merged with Tachyporus, and Mycetoponis and Bryo- 

 porus disappear in BoUtoMus; certain recognized species of 

 Stephens are rejected on the score of " inconvenience," 

 whilst one or two of that author's errors are endorsed ; and 

 the following observations occur (besides a few others to be 

 hereafter specifically noticed), possibly of interest to British 

 Co\eo\)terists :~Hypocyptus pulicarius is suppressed spe- 

 cifically, Dr. Kraatz being stated to have sent a large 

 example of S. seminulum under that name (Erichson's 

 pulicarius not being mentioned) ; the H. anisotomoides of 

 our lists is not mentioned; Mycetoporus nanus is i-eferred 

 to Erichson, and not to Gravenhorst; Hardy and Bold's 

 name is retained for their Bryoporus castaneus, instead of 

 Hardyij Crotch, as the prior Stephensian castaneus does not 

 stand specifically ; and M. loiiyuluSj lepidus and hrunneiiSy 

 Marsh., Steph. (= himaculatus, Boisd. et Lac, ruficornis, 

 Ktz., punctiventris, Thorns.) are evidently considered as 

 specifically non-separable, tliougli given as distinct by the 

 author. 



M. Tappes( Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr., 1869, ix, p. 7) has recorded 

 his opinion, fortified by that of several of his colleagues, that 

 Cryptocephalus bipustulatus. Fab., is perfectly distinct from 

 C. hipunctatus, of which C. lineola is the only recorded 

 British form ; and Mr. Crotch has noted Mannerheim's 



