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COLEOPTERA. 



Kew British Species, Corrections of Nomencla- 

 ture, &c., noticed since the Publication of the 

 ExYTomologist's Annual, 1865. 



By E. C. Rye. 



Our national '^institution" of starting a conversation with 

 remarks upon the weather will, on the present occasion, be 

 less a matter of form than usual ; for I presume that the 

 extent of the following list of novelties must, in a great 

 measure, be owing to the long continued and excessive heat 

 of the past summer. It is certainly not due to the great 

 number of workers ; since most of the additions to our lists 

 are owing ' to the exertions of Messrs. Sharp, Crotch, 

 Matthews and Power, and myself, — Messrs. Hislop, Brewer, 

 C. Watei'house and Janson each contributing one species. 

 Nevertheless, from no former single year's work has there 

 been recorded in the " Entomologist's Annual " so much 

 good result ; whether having reference to the number of 

 species new to science or to Britain, — to the interesting 

 nature or unexpected occurrence of some of those species, — 

 to the general occurrence, often in large numbers, of rare 

 insects, — or (as regards British Coleopterists) to the exten- 

 sion of acquaintance with Continental opinions ; the latter 

 arising chiefly from the energy of Mr. G. R. Crotch. 



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