NEW BRITISH SPECIES, ETC., IN 1871. 25 



Steph., for Uvidus, Er.; BoHtohius ayicalis, Stepli., for 

 exoletiis, Er. : Qucdius semiobscurus, Er, (jiec Marsh.) = 

 microps, Grav.; Q. nitipennis, Steph., should be used for 

 attenuatus, Gyll. {jiec Grav.) 5 Q. ductus, Payk., for im- 

 pressus, Panz. ; Ocypus ceneocepkalas, De Geer (1774), for 

 cupreus, Rossi ; O. ophthalmicus, Scop. (1763), for ci/a?ietcs, 

 Payk., O. edentulus, Block (1798), for morio, Grav.; O. 

 iiitens, Schr., for similis, Fab. {nee Payk.); Philonthus 

 chalceiis, Steph., for succicola. Thorns.; I*, cruentatus, 

 GmeL, for bipustidatus, Panz. {nee Linn.); P.JiavopteruSj 

 Fourcr., for fulvipes, Fab. {^nec Scop.). Lathrohium hrun- 

 7iipes, Fab. (1792) = pimctatum* Fourci-. (1785); Crypto- 

 hium fracticorne, Vayk., = glabei-riimunf Hbst. (1784); 

 Stilicus fragilis, Grav., = angustatus, Fourcr. ; Sitnius im- 

 inacnlatus, Steph., should be used for intermedius, Er. ; 

 Pcederus UttoraliSf Grav., =^ gregaimcs, Scop.; Stenus an- 

 gustatiis, Steph., should be used for huphthahnuSj Grav., 

 not of Schrank, with whose species of that name the subse- 

 quent Juno of Fab. is identical; S. oculatiis, Er., = jsimilis 

 Hbst.; S. speculator, Lac, = clavicornis. Scop.; Platy- 

 stetlms morsifa?is, Payk., = farenarius, Fourcr.; Oxytelus 

 depressus, Gr., = ftetracarinatus. Block; Lesteva macro- 

 elytron, Fourcr. {hicolor, Fab.) = f longoelitratus, Goeze 

 (1777). Necrophonis mortuorum, Fab. (1792), = ves- 

 pilloldes, Hbst. (1784); Cis pyrrkocephalus. Marsh., must 

 stand for sefiger, Mell., and C. ruficornis. Marsh., for 

 ohlongus, Mell. 



Mr. Crotch has also published (Williams & Norgate) 

 during the past year a Synopsis of all the Coleoptera of 

 Europe (in the extended sense of that continent now in use 

 among naturalists) described during the year 1868, and con- 



» If this be so, Z. punctatim, Zetterstecit (1S2S), Sahib., &c., will 

 require renaming, and may be called ZetterstedtL E. C. E. 



