2 COLEOPTERA. 



new), Mr. Champion (1), and myself (17, five new, and one 

 still undescribed). 



Our motto must be now changed to '' Festina lente." 



Some old familiar names will be missed, as the band of 

 w^orkers contracts ; and we can only hope that, as the hunt- 

 ing-ground afforded by the British Islands is evidently still 

 far from exhausted, others may arise to take their place. Of 

 these, however, at present, there seems but scanty indication. 

 Perhaps, the w^eaker brethren may be kept back by the pre- 

 sent oppressive system of nomenclature ; if this be so, and 

 should success follow the attempt now being made to base 

 that system upon one of the simple and lucid rules of 

 our common law, what a crop of w^orkers may we not soon 

 expect ? 



I preface my present record of the additions to our list by 

 such notices of captures, oeconomy, changes of nomenclature, 

 and literature as are likely to be of interest to the student 

 of British Coleoptera. 



From flood refuse, Mr. Champion has recorded Agriotes 

 sordidus at Hampton and Chatham, Ptenidium atomaroides 

 (hitherto unique as British), Homalota Eichhoffi,, Ilyobates 

 forticornis, Stenus opacas, and other good things at Walton- 

 on-Thames, ScydmcBuus pusillus (also at Walton and Tot- 

 tenham under similar conditions, and at Chatham, in moss), 

 at Staines, and Lathrobium pallidum, at Arundel. 



Mr. Champion has also found Homalota elegantula in 

 moss, Aphanisticus pusillus, Deleastcr on the wing, Apho- 

 dius arenarius, abundant in stercorc, and Ceuthorhynchus 

 urticcE (also at Caterham) on nettle, at Arundel ; Scydrnm- 

 nus rubicundus and Acidota cruentata at Shirley sand- 

 pits, Dyschirius elongatulus and Ceuthorhynchus vicinus 

 at Deal, Lathridius testaceus at Peckliam, Bruchus canus 

 at Brio"hton (again on Onobrychis sativa)y Cassida vittata, 



