NEW BRITISH SPECIES, ETC., IN 1871. 29 



I. 4-nofatus, StejDh., is employed for the preoccupied aterj 

 De G.; Agabus cUdymuSf 01. (1790), = biocellatus, Miill., 

 1776; A. unguicularis, Thorns., = guttatus, 111. (1802), 

 nee Payk. (1798), = guttulus, Schon. (180S), which stands; 

 A. agilis, Fab. (1792), = ruJicuUisy Schall. (1783), 7iec 

 De G. (1774), = h(BmorrhoidaliSy Fab. (1787), which 

 stands; A. bipunctatus, Fah. (1787), ^= fnehulosus, Foist 

 (1771); A.fontlnalis, Stepli., = fnitidus, Fab.; A. abbre- 

 viatus, Fab. (1787), =-\undidatus, Schr. (1776); Dythcus 

 Frischii, Bergst. (1778), is employed for the preoccupied 

 punctulatuSf Fab. (but lateraUmarginalis,J)e G., 1774, seems 

 eligible); Hydaticus Hybnerif Fab. (1787), = f seminiger, 

 DeG. (1774). 



The following notes on synonymy affecting British species 

 have also been published recently: — 



Schaum's O xynojUilus {Iws. Deutschl., i, 2, 1868) is iden- 

 tical with Motschoulsky's Hydrovaius (1853), according to 

 Ballion, in Bull. Mosc, xlii, 219. 



Scydmcenus obscuj^icornisy Motsch., =^ piinctipennis, Steph. 

 (not recognized as a species here), S. exilis, Schm., = nanus, 

 Mark.; S. hirticollis, 111., = minutus, Fab.; Motschoulsky, 

 Bull. Mosc, xlii, 252. 



Gibbium scotkis, Fab., = psylloides, Czenpinski (1778); 

 Gemminger, Col. Heft., vi, 110. 



Sphindus dubius, Gyll., = hispidiiSj Payk. {certe)\ Thom- 

 son, Skand. Col., x, 43. 



Otiorhynchus septentrionis, Hbst., =: scaber, Linn., thus 

 rendering a new name for Trachyphlceus scaber, auct.j 

 necessary, and rostratus is accordingly proposed for it; 

 Ceuthorhynchus sulcicollis, Gyll., =: pleurostigma, Mar- 

 sham; C. cyanipennisj Gyll., = sidcicollis, Payk.; Thomson, 

 Skand. Col., x, 174, 202. 



M. Fauvel has published (^^L'Abeille," vii, 136), amongst 



