XEW BRITISH SPECIES, ETC., IX 1873. 107 



'■^ maciiUs elytrorum minorihus^ aut obsoletis, vel majorihus 

 coadunatisr The remark by myself, /. c, ii, as to ferru- 

 gineushemg "sometimes referred by beginners as a variety" 

 to 0. alni, Avas intended to apply to myself as well as others ; 

 and my case is a further proof of the maxim " On revient 

 toujours a ses premiers amours," for I cannot now see any 

 sufficient character by which to separate these two insects. 

 As M. Brisout admits that 0. alni sometimes has the usual 

 elytral spots obsolete ("the spots on the elytra are but 

 rarely wanting:" Stephens, Man., p. 230), there is nothing 

 left for ferrugineics to stand upon. Structural differences 

 there are none, and he himself admits to taking the two in 

 company on elm (Marsham, by the way, attributes his insect 

 to the oak). I do not know why Walton adopted Olivier's 

 posterior name ; Marsham quotes up to the 4th vol. of the 

 latter's work. 



32. " *20. C. [euthorhyxchu s] crassidentatus {ISIar shall ^ 



in litt.), Mus. MarslialV \ "Walton, List of British 



Curculionidog (one of the Brit. Mus. Catalogues), 



1856, p. 40; E. C. Rye, Ent. Mo. Mag., x, p. 18. 



The meaning of the prefixed asterisk is not given in the 



list quoted : it does not signify that the insect is or is not in 



the Museum collection (the letters " B.M" after the first line 



of any species signify the former alternative, and the want 



of them the latter) ; and, being shared by C. urticce^ " Mus. 



Walt.," cannot mean that it was a desideratum of the 



author's. Possibly it may be intended to designate a species 



new to Britain. 



This undescribed species is in still worse plight than the 

 " *3. A.[malus] minimus {Walt, in litt.), Mus. Brit.'' of 

 the same list, of which a few characters from Mr. Walton's 

 own pen have been posthumously published by myself. But 



