NEW BRITISH SPECIES, ETC., IN 1865. 57 



Lina longicollis, Suff. (? tremulce, Wat. Cat.) 

 Longitarsus Sisyrabrii, All. 



lateralis, Fuud. 

 Teucrii, Allard. 



memhranaceus, Foudr. 

 Pbyllotreta jDrocera, Redt., All. 

 Aphthona abdominalis, Duft., All. 

 Dibolia occultans, H off in., All. 

 Psylliodes nigricollis, Marsh., All. 

 Cassida sanguinosa, Suff., Boh. 

 Triplax bicolor, 3Iarsh., Lac. 

 Murmidius ovalis, Beck. 

 Hippodamia 7-maculata, De G., Muls. 

 Cynegetis im punctata, Lin., Muls. 

 Alexia globosa, Sturm., Kust. 



Tbe proverb to tbe effect tbat no man is a propbet in his 

 own country is ^Yell exempHfied by tbe above list; wberein 

 are no less tban twenty-four species by British authors, rank- 

 ing as distinct on tbe Continent, but repudiated by British 

 Entomologists. 



I believe that hardly a score of M. de Marseul's so-called 

 British species would stand the ordeal of thorough investiga- 

 tion. Very many of them are well known to us to be 

 synonymous with, or varieties of, other recorded species, — 

 from which, however, they are here quoted as distinct; some 

 few owe (I should think) their introduction to typographical 

 or other accidents; and it needs but a glance at the synonymy 

 of Waterhouse's Catalogue to see how M. de Marseul has 

 been induced, by the errors of Stephens and others, to 

 imagine that we really possessed species which exist merely 

 as names in their books, or are represented by other insects 

 in their collections. 



