30 COLEOPTERA. 



Others, the following notes oi-j the synonymy o^ Braclieltjtra^ 

 affecting British species: Homalota Jiitida, var. iiitidiuscida, 

 Sharp, = alpestris, Heer, ex typ., nee Ktz., Scriba, Sharp 

 in litt. ; H. obliquepuncfata, Wollast., = ijavena, Er. (al- 

 ready pointed out in Ent. "Mo. Mag. by Dr. Sharp); 

 U. (E7iekoUis, Sharp, = WaterJiousei, Wollast. (in this, 

 M. Fauvel is in eri-or). 



In Deyrolle's "Petites Nouvelles," 27, p. 108, M. Fauvel 

 (as briefly noted in Ent. Ann., 1871) claims to have described 

 Actocliaris Iteadingii, Sharp (1 May, 1870) in 1869, under 

 the name marina ; but he does not state in vrhat publication, 

 or at what precise date. Having, for the purposes of the 

 ^' Zoological Record" for the years 1869 and 1870, had occa- 

 sion to carefully abstract all obtainable French and other En- 

 tomological literature during those years, and having foiled 

 to observe any such description or name, I have applied to 

 M. Fauvel for more definite particulars as to his claim of 

 priority; and that gentleman, after some interval, writes to 

 me as follows: — *' J'ai donne la description do cet Actocharh 

 marina a la Societe Linneenne de Normandie, et cette de- 

 scription a ete imprimee dar.s la seance de Novembre, 1869, 

 de son Bulletin Annuel. Ce Bulletin n'a pas encore ete 

 envoye en Angleterre, a cause des evenements de Tan passe 

 et de cette annee." Having supposed that the work men- 

 tioned would most probably be the medium employed by 

 M. Fauvel, and knowing that the actual times of its publi- 

 cation are habitually much at variance with the dates borne 

 by its several portions, I applied, during the above-mentioued 

 interval, to M. de Marseul, as the best French authority, for 

 information on this point; and, in September last, received 

 his reply that the volume for 1868, bearing 1869 at the 

 bottom of the title (which I have myself seen, and which 

 certainly contains no description or name of Actocliaris 



