16 COLEOPTERA. 



Fauvel (for which the author still endeavours to claim pri- 

 ority, on the strength of a paper in "Bull. Soc. Linn. Norm. 

 2e ser. v, 19," supposed to bear date Kovember, 1869, but 

 which has not to this day been published, apparently I), is 

 still referred to the neighbourhood of Thinobius ; it is said 

 not to cock up its tail in flight, — " ce qui est encore un vrai 

 caractere d'Oxytelien." 



The Ancyrophorus longipennis of our Catalogues is con- 

 sidered not to be Fairmaire's species of that name, and is 

 named aureus. 



Oocytelus 7naritimus, Thomson (1861), is deposed in 

 favour of O. Perrisi, Fauvel, for which priority is claimed 

 on the following quotation, " Bull. Soc. Linn. Norm, vi, 42 

 (4 Mars, 1861); Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1862, Bull., 34." Putting 

 aside the feet that M. Fauvel can hardly have recognized 

 this species, as in the same vol. of the " Annales" he again 

 described it as 0. Oceanus^ it seems unnecessary to point out 

 that Thomson's publication was in fact long prior to that of 

 the Bull. Norm. The quotation of the 0. fiilvipes of 

 Hardy and Bold's Catalogue as a synonym of this insect is 

 incorrect: Hardy's insect is y/«l•^/Je5, Stephens. 



The insect recorded by me as 0. speculifrons, Ktz., is 

 retained as such ; but the speculifrons of Crotch and Sharp 

 is referred to clypeonitens, Pandelle, and Kraatz himself is 

 considered to have confused the two species. My insect is, 

 of course, the same as that of Messrs. Crotch and Sharp. 



My Bledius fuscipes is once more erroneously considered 

 as a mere colour var. of paUipes. M. Fauvel appears to 

 be quite confused as to these two species and B. suhterra- 

 neus. 



It is be hoped that this work Avill be completed, as it 

 cannot fail to be of some use to British Coleopterists. The 

 plates are especially excellent. 



