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species introduced as British in Mr. Crotcli's list, regretting 

 that it is not in my power to give further information about 

 them. I may, hovv-ever, remark that it is possible some of 

 them are i-epresentatives, under other names, of species 

 already recorded, and that the queries put by Mr. Crotch 

 after some of the new species are, I suspect, not undeserved, 

 but no definite opinion can be given when we have no 

 evidence or sufficient synonyms. 



Want of space also prevents me from noticing the very 

 numerous new names brought forward as confessedly repre- 

 senting species already enumerated in our Lists, and thereby 

 necessarily causing confusion, which is not lessened by divers 

 small inaccuracies, such as Strangolia attenuata, Linn., 

 appearing as a British species, and also being included in 

 the list of doubtful insects, &c. 



Dromius oblitus, Boield. (hitherto considered a var. of 



sigma). 

 Patrobus rubripennis, Thorns. ? 



"With respect to this insect, I may remark that I have ex- 

 amined a very large number of specimens of the mountain 

 species of Patrobus from different parts of the north of 

 England (in one instance about 80 examples kindly sent to 

 me for that purpose by my friend Mr. Morris Young of 

 Paisley), and that I am pretty confident we have onl}^ one 

 species, viz., P. jncicornis, Zett. (septe?itrionis, Dej., Daw- 

 son), excepting of course P. clavipes and P. excavatus. 

 According to Thomson (Skan. Col., 1859, i. 215, 3), P. ru- 

 hripennis (hitherto considered a var. of picicornis) should be 

 four lines long, with the elytra red, three times longer than 

 the thorax, their striae distinctly punctuated, especially at the 

 base, and the basal foveas of the thorax sparingly punctured ; 

 v,'hilst pi cico?'niH (id., loc. cit. i. 215, 4) should be from four 



