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COLEOPTEEA. 



New British Species, Corrections of Nomencla- 

 ture, ETC., noticed since THE PUBLICATION OF THE 



Entomologist's Annual, 1873. 



By E. C. Rye. 



The 20 years lease originally granted to this unpre- 

 tending (but, I hope, not altogether useless) little work 

 expiring by effluxion of time with the present volume, 

 I should have liked, in accordance with the classic fable 

 attributing to the expiring swan its sweetest strains, to have 

 been in a position to successfully emulate that moribund 

 member of the AiiatidcB. But, confusing metaphors, I am 

 this year asked to make bricks without straw ; and, instead 

 of the bird renowned in *' Carmina jam moriens canit 

 exequialia cygnus,"" I fear that the aquatic fowl of lesser 

 dignity indicated in " — sed argutos interstrepere anser 

 olores " will be suggested by my humble record. 



Following the example of former years, I mention at once 

 that of the 40 species noticed hereafter in detail, only 15 

 possibly represent additions to our list. Of these lo, only 

 10, viz., a Dromius, a Harpalus, two species of A?iisotoma, 

 a Ptilium and a TrichopteryXf a Ptinus, two species of 

 Liosomus and one of Bagous, seem above suspicion ; and 

 an Acidota, a Geotrupes, a Tribolium, an Orchestes, and 

 an Agapanthia are doubtful, either as possibly introduced 

 or of dubious specific value. The number of recorders of 



