NEW BRITISH SPECIES, ETC., IN 1863. 77 



where they are not deserved will never alter the opinion of 

 anyone who has looked into the matter carefully, or, I trust, 

 that of English Coleopterists in general. 



Mr. Crotch has very properly collected at the end of his 

 Catalogue numerous species hitherto included in our Lists, 

 but which require furtlier evidence befoi-e they can be con- 

 sidered British. It is, I believe, generally known that these 

 names were included in the Catalogue of British Coleoptera 

 now generally in use, with a view to directing attention to 

 their claims, and that they would have been expunged there- 

 from, after a certain interval, in a future edition, provided 

 they received no corroboration in the meantime ; but there 

 are, in addition to these, forty or fifty species entirely omitted 

 by Mr. Crotch, probably intentionally, but still it would have 

 been as well to have placed them amongst the appendix of 

 doubtful claimants, since many of them are not more apocrv- 

 phal than those to whom another chance of establishing 

 themselves as British has been given. 



The following, however, surely ought to have had a place 

 as British : — 



Otiorhjnchus sulcatus. Fab. 



Trachyphlceus alternans (Schon.), Walton. 



Pulydrosus micans, Fab. 



Mhynchites cwpreus^ Linn. 



Adimonia sangwmea, Fab. 



MordellUtena pumilaj Gyll. 



Dinoderus substt'iatus^ Steph. 



Telephorus ater^ Linn. 



Hyiastes palliatus, Gyll. 



Ptilimn saxonicutn, Gilim., Matth. 



discoideum, Gillm. 



I can now only give a list of the names of the numerous 



