XEW BRITISH SPECIES, ETC., IN 1871. 47 



Power, who Iiad taken some few of it), and other good 

 tilings also fell to my lot. During the past season, Dr. 

 Power has also taken there OxylcBmus variolosuSj Anisotoma 

 'parvula, Scraptia, and Phctroscelis confusa. The latter 

 insect also occurred there to myself, very sparingly; but I 

 have found it since, in October, in great profusion at Wim- 

 bledon, under circumstances that quite preclude the idea of 

 its breeding on dwarf willow. 



Of Dr. Power's other notable captures the following are 

 the chief: Ochihehius ceneiiSj Anisoxyafusadaj Apioii affine, 

 seYeral Dromius 4:-signaius (in apple trees), Ceuthorhynchus 

 setosus (abundantly, on Iheris amara), the '* Helophorus 

 710V. sp."' of Dr. Sharp's Catalogue, and Helophorus arver- 

 ■nlcus (not before recorded so far south in this country), at 

 Horsell; a totally black form of 3Iicraspis, in the proportion 

 of one to about 2000 ordinary specimens, at Lee; Bembi- 

 diicmjiicviatile on the banks of the Wye (a new locality); 

 Sitones cinerascens, Lema Erichsoni, Choleva longula, 

 Phyllotreta smuata and Stilicus similis in plenty, and 

 Apio7i GyUenhalli in profusion, in Ireland; and, amongst 

 other good things, no less than six species of Agatliidium 

 (viz., nigrum, convexum, seynimdum, marginatum, IcBviga- 

 tum, and varians) at Highgate in one day. 



On the whole, it seems that Scotland must still take the 

 highest place in the estimation of British Coleopterists; and 

 that of the English counties, Yorkshire (judging by the 

 recent captures of Messrs. Lawson, Vfilkinson, Waterhouse, 

 Hutchinson and Hey) is likely for some time to be the most 

 productive. 



1. Hydroporus Duftschmidti. 



ruffrons, Dufts. (1805, Dytiscus); nee Miiller 

 (1776), nee Fab. (1792). 

 The above re-naming appears necessary. 



