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A LIST OF THE SPECIES OF COLEOPTERA 

 RECORDED AS NEW TO BRITAIN IN 

 THE ENTOMOLOGIST'S ANNUALS, 1855— 

 72; WITH THE MORE IMPORTANT COR- 

 RECTIONS IN NOMENCLATURE, &c. 



By E. C. Rye. 



Having frequently consulted with advantage Mr. Kirby's 

 concise Index (Ent. Ann., 1862, pp. 11—20) to the names 

 of the Coleoptera recorded as new to Britain in the Annuals 

 for 1856 — 61, it has occurred to me that a more amplified 

 list, on a somewhat similar basis, including the numerous 

 species chronicled in the "Annual" for 1855 (omitted from 

 Mr. Kirby's Index, but especially interesting as comprising 

 the species registered from 1840 to 1854, both inclusive, — 

 a period when there was so much scope for the describing 

 Entomologist), and extending to tlie present day, could hardly 

 fail to be of considerable use to my fellow workei's and my- 

 self; and this list I am now enabled to publish, through the 

 kindness of our Editor, who has himself recently treated the 

 Lepidoptera in the same way. 



Before making a few necessary remarks upon the construc- 

 tion, &:c. of this list, it may be as well here to briefly note 

 such other portions of the Entomologist's Aimuals hitherto 

 published as are of interest to Coleopterists. 



First, and most useful, are the " Notes on the Collecting 

 and Preserving of Coleoptera" by Mr. T. V. Wollaston 

 ("Annual" for 1855. pp. 101 — 109), w^hich probably incited 



