COLEOPTERA. 



♦ 

 Xew British Species, Correctioxs of Nojiencla- 



TURE, etc., noticed SINCE THE PUBLICATION OF THE 



Entomologist's Annual, 1872. 

 By E. C. Rye. 

 The reaction inevitably following any great effort has set 

 in during the past year ; and against the 60 good species, 

 &c., added to our list in the last "Annual," I have now 

 only to set 25, all of genera well known to us, and from 

 which 4 must be subtracted as either certainly or probably 

 representing species already recorded as British (viz., an 

 Il7/bius and Olibrus, which will most likely be found to be 

 mere corrections of names, a Hydnohius erroneously identi- 

 fied, and a Meloe which seems to resolve itself into an 

 outrageous form of the common oil-beetle, but which is 

 nevertheless most interesting, as its by no means most outrf 

 form has been recognized as a species). 



Of the remaining 21, 8 have been described as new to 

 science (one of them representing an insect already in our 

 list), another is yet undescribed, and four {Lithocharis jncea, 

 Anisotoma brunnea, Nanoplnjes gracilis and Scijmmil 

 arcuatus) are especially interesting, owing to their un- 

 expected appearance in this country or universal rarity, and 

 in the case of the Anisotoma, to the light thrown by the 

 ipture upon the value of the species. 

 These 25 species have, alas ! to be credited to even a 

 .mailer number of workers (9) than last year, having been 

 recorded by Dr. Sharp (5, two new), Mr. Wollaston (^2, one 



1873. 



