NEW BRITISH SPECIES, ETC., IN 1873. 65 



Elateridse, Dermestidag, ByrrhidaB, Histeridse, Micropeplidse, 

 Nitidulid^, Peltid^B, Byturidie, Mycetopliagidas, Phalacrid^e, 

 Rhysodida?, Ciicnjidas (including Hypocoprus and Lyctus), 

 ColydiidjB (including Monotonia^ Lathridius, Corticaria^ 

 Symbiofes, Mycetcea. Alexia, Leiestes, Myrmecoxenus, and 

 Myrmidius, — from which Ce^<^/i0cer^^5 advena is supposed to 

 be distinct, — &c.), Cryptophagidce (including Aspidophorus, 

 Engis and Sphindus), Cissidue, Telmatophilidce (consisting 

 of Diphyllus, Diploccelus, Psammoechus, and Telmato- 

 philus\ Erotylidce, Endomychidee, Coccinellidse, Corylo- 

 phidas, Trichopterygidns, Scaphidiida^, Sphairiidje, Clamhidai, 

 Anisotomidae. From the table it is evident that the work 

 will be continued thus : — Silphida^, Scydmfenidte, Paussidai, 

 Pselaphidae, Staphylinida?, Malacodermata, and Teredilia 

 (with seven families). The work is on the same dicho- 

 tomous scheme as Redtenbacher's well-known " Fauna Aus- 

 triaca," rendered more difficult to follow by the copious use 

 of abbreviations and symbols. 



A fourth fasciculus of Thomson's " Opuscula Entomo- 

 logica" has appeared (Lund: 1871, pp. 361 — 452), from 

 which I have (Ent. Mo. Mag., x, pp. 137 and 138) extracted 

 the following points especially interesting to English Ento- 

 mologists: — Bembidium velox, Er., is re-named (seepostea); 

 Calathus nubigcjia, Hal., is considered a good species ; 

 Agabus sexualis, Reiche, is stated to be Gaurodytes alpes- 

 tris, Heer, and G. Solieri, Aube, according to a type from 

 the late Dr. Schaum, is tarsatus, Zett. [if so, Aube's name 

 stands, his " Iconographie," v, being published in 1836, and 

 the first part of Zetterstedt's "Insecta Lapponica," containing 

 the Coleoptera, not having appeared, teste Hagen, till 1838, — 

 the whole work bearing date 1840. Thomson, Scand. Col., 

 i, p. 64, identifies A. melanarius of Aube with tarsatus, 

 and is followed in this by subsequent authors: if he be right, 



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