Atlantic Coleoptera. 305 
p. 497 (genus Lepractinvs). 
(Sp. 1374) Leptacinus linearis. 
In his Catalogue of Azorean Coleoptera, Mr. Crotch 
remarks that ‘‘ Gravenhorst’s name [linearis] for this 
species is inapplicable, it having been adopted erroneously 
from Olivier.” On referring however to the ‘ Col. 
Micropt.’ I cannot perceive anything to indicate that the 
title was borrowed from Olivier at all; though since it is 
equally certain that there could not be two insects bear- 
ing the name “ Staphylinus linearis” at the same time, 
and Olivier’s (which pertains to our common European 
Xantholinus) had the priority by seven years, it follows 
as a matter of course that Gravenhorst’s specific title 
must be forfeited, and that we have no choice but to 
accept the next one in succession,—v. e. Stephens’ 
“ pusillus.”” Hence, its synonymy should be thus 
corrected :— 
Leptacinus pusillus. 
Staphylinus linearis, Grav. [nee Oliv. 1795], Col. 
Micropt. 43 (1802). Gyrohypnus pusillus, Steph., Il. 
Brit. Ent. v. 264 (1832). Leptacinus linearis, Woll., 
Ann. Nat. Hist. vi. 101 (1860) ; Id., Cat. Can. Col. 580 
(1864); Id., Col. Atl. 498 (1865). Leptacinus pusillus, 
Crotch, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 383 (1867). 
Hab.—Maderenses (Mad.), et Canarienses (Lanz., 
Ten.) ; inter quisquilias et preecipue sub recremento ad 
basin acervorum tritici sparso, hinc inde vulgaris. 
p. 498 (genus Orutvs). 
(Sp. 1379) Othius philonthoides. 
According to Fauvel (I Abeille, vi. 151), this Canarian 
Othius is merely a small variety of my O. brachypterus— 
equally from the Canarian archipelago; but considering 
that Fauvel’s only acquaintance with the two species rests 
upon a single example of each which I forwarded to him, 
‘and I have myself inspected at any rate a certain number 
of them, and pointed-out their exact differential ‘charac- 
ters, I must be pardoned if I fail to acknowledge the 
necessary indisputability of Fauvel’s dictum. Although 
