o2 COLEOPTERA. 



neither y accurately ; and was originally identified as lucens 

 by a Parisian authority, for Mr. Morris Young of Paisley. 



13. OxYPODA Waterhousei, Rye; D. Sharp, /. c, 190. 



nigro-fusca, Waterh., nee Steph. 

 To Dr. Sharp's remarks should also be added that Mr. 

 Waterhouse himself, in the synonymy of his Catalogue, has 

 recognized and identified Stephens's nioro-fusca. 



14. OxYPODA MUTATA, Sharp, I. C.J 191. 



riparia, Fairm. (1859), nee Thorns. (1855). 

 Dr. Sharp thus re-names the insect occasionally taken in 

 dead leaves at Shirley, readily known from our other small 

 Oxypodce by its almost ^'engine-turned" punctuation, and 

 the rounded projection in the middle of the basal margin of 

 its thorax. 



15. OxYPODA ERACHYPTERA, Steph., 111. Brit. Ent., v., 



128 (Aleochara)', Wat. Cat.; D. Sharp, Z. c, 191 



(redescribed). 

 1 forticor7iis, Fairm, 

 Dr. Sharp recognizes and redescribes Stephens's insect 

 above named, noting that it must be very close io f err ngineay 

 Er., over which, even if identical v/ith it, it should have 

 priority. There appears to be little doubt, as Dr. Sharp 

 states, that forticornisj Fairm., should also be referred to 

 this species, though referred to a very different one by De 

 Marseul and Geraminger and von Harold. The insect 

 originally brought forward as O. misella, Ktz., and stated by 

 M. Fauvel to be ferruginea, Er. (Ent. Ann. 1870, 56), has 

 been sent by me to Dr. Kratz, who has returned it as ap- 

 parently his misella. 



As there is in any case no doubt of the validity of 



