NEW BRITISH SPECIES, ETC., RECORDED IN 1840 — 71. 129 



number prefixed. Such of these as are distinguished by the 

 mark f represent the addition of a new genus : and the pre- 

 fixed* irnphes either that the species is not recognized as 

 truly indigenous or otherwise, or is referred to some other 

 species recorded before or in this fist. Where only an author's 

 name occurs after the name of the insect, the record of an 

 original description is meant to be conveyed: in other cases, 

 the second name is that of the recorder in this country (not 

 necessarily the discoverer, or the first to name the species 

 correctly) ; and the date following is that of the Annual (not 

 of the year) in which the species is recorded, — the remaining 

 figures referring to the page of that Annual. If the name of 

 the original describer be within brackets, an erroneous iden- 

 tification is implied; and, where a species has been first 

 incorrectly and subsequently correctly brought forward, the 

 whole of the incorrect record is within brackets. Alterations 

 in nomenclature, and other points of interest, whether by the 

 original or any subsequent observer, are added after the first 

 record. I have in nearly every instance adopted the exact 

 names recorded, but have been compelled in some iew in- 

 stances to correct evidently accidental errors, and in others 

 to add, for the sake of uniformity, the generic name employed 

 in the Catalogue hereafter mentioned. 



The other notices, not numbered, and of which the first 

 two words are printed in italics, refer to changes in nomen- 

 clature, &c., relating to species recorded before the term to 

 which this list applies : but I have not thought it necessary 

 to incorporate in it all of the very numerous changes men- 

 tioned in the introduction to the article on Coleoptera in the 

 present *^ Annual." 



As Dr. Sharp's Catalogue is the only one that comprises 

 all our now known species, I have followed the arrangement 

 therein adopted; but, for greater convenience of reference, 



1872. K 



