NEW BRITISH SPECIES, ETC., IN 1871. 31 



marina), had only been sent to him, in France, on the iirst 

 of" the then current month, and that he was certain that tlie 

 following volume was not then published, or even ready for 

 publication. There seems, therefore, not the slightest doubt 

 that Dr. Sharp's name, published beyond question in 3iay, 

 1870, must have priority over M. Fauvel's, apparently con- 

 tained in a volume which had not seen the light in Septem- 

 bei", 1871. It is much to be regretted, for M. Fauvel's sake, 

 that there should be so long a delay in publishing the Bul- 

 letins of the Society to which he sends communications; but 

 the events of the Franco-Prussian vrai*, which broke out in 

 the middle of the summer of 1870, could liardly have affected 

 the publication of an article printed in November, 1869; and 

 Dr. Sharp's description was in the hands of Dr. Laboulbene 

 and other French Entomolof^ists Ion"; before that war beo-an. 

 This question materially affects myself, as M. Fauvei has in 

 a former year made a similar claim to priority for his Calo- 

 dera Bonnairei over my glabrlventris. 



In Thomson's i-ecently published " Opuscula Entomo- 

 logica," many notes interesting to British Entomologists will 

 be found, — as, indeed, is certain to be the case with all the 

 writings of that author. Dr. Sharp (Ent. Mo, Mag., vii, 

 204) has furnished a lucid analysis of the contents of the two 

 first fasciculi of this work; and it may be not out of place if 

 a short abstract of the 3rd and completing flisciculus be here 

 given. 



It was published in 1870, and contains the following 

 articles. XVI, pp. 305—316: an account of the Swedish 

 species of Ilyhz^tis, Halictus, Colhtes, and Mhophites (Antho- 

 philous IIymenoj)tera). Of these, 37 are enamerated, and 

 the following are described as new; Hylcsus marginatus, 

 H. clathratus, and Salictiis ahdominalis (this latter evi- 

 dently by accident, it being a -svell-known Panzerian sp.). 

 XYII, pp. 316 — 321 : an account of the Swedish species of 



