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COLEOPTERA. 



New British Species, Corrections, &c., noticed 

 SINCE the Publication of the Entomologist's 

 Annual, 1863. 



By E. C. Rye. 



In spite of the general complaints as to scarcity of insects, 

 I have to record a fair average of additions to our list 

 of Coleoptera ; the workers (or recording workers) are not 

 numerous, certainly, and I have, unfortunately, no occasion 

 to mention many well-known names ; still we are not stand- 

 ing still, and every year shows that the work of reckoning 

 up "the British Beetle" (so often lately disparaged in the 

 " Saturday Review") is far from ended. 



In the present paper will be found notices of 40 species 

 added to the catalogue, whereof four appear to be new to 

 science, and about 12 have hitherto been confounded with 

 others already known as English ; there are also some correc- 

 tions, &c. 



These are but few, compared with the number in the last 

 "Annual" (which, however, contained the arrears of two 

 years), and I have consequently been enabled to give rather 

 more lengthy descriptions, &c., at the risk of a little repeti- 

 tion, from the notices of the original recorders of some of 

 the species. I hope this will not be considered injudicious, 

 as it is convenient to have information in a compendious 



