NEW BRITISH SPECIES, ETC., IX 1871. 53 



Stephens's species, I have the less scruple in proposing the 

 name Kraatzii for the long subsequently described hrachyjJ- 

 tera of Kraatz, which is perfectly distinct from it. 



16. OxYPODA TARDA, Sharp, I. c, 192 (described). 

 Taken in the salt marshes near Dumfries. 



Closely allied to O. hrachyjjtera, Steph., but larger, 

 darker in colour, with the antennae scarcely so large, for the 

 size of the insect, the elytra a little longer, and the base of 

 tiie abdomen not paler than the middle. The thorax is som.e- 

 tiraes obscurely ferruginous, at others nearly black. 



17. HoMALOTA AQUATicA, Thomson. 



subcenea, Sharp. 

 Dr. Sharp gives the above synonymy in his Catalogue. 

 The identity of the two species is certified by Thomson him- 

 self, in Opusc. Entom., fasc. ii, p. 130; and was, in fact, 

 suggested by Dr. Sharp when describing his insect. 



18. Gyroph^xa, n. sp. (?) ; T. J. Bold, Cat. Ins. North. 



and Durh. (Revision of Coleoptera), 1871, 114. 

 lucidida, Trans. Tynes. Nat. Field CL, v, 54, 7iec Er. 

 Briefly referred to, as a probably new species, near (but 

 smaller than) nana, found at North Seaton, in x4.garics. 



19. Gyroph.ena Pow^eri, Crotch. 



punciicollis,ThomsorifSkand.Co].,iK,2d'2', D. Sharp, 



Cat. Brit. Col. 



As the description of ^NJr. Crotch's species was published 



in May, 1867, and the 9th vol. of Thomson's Skand. Col. is 



dated simply 1867, some further evidence seems necessary 



before deposing Mr. Crotch's name j as the mere year's date 



