310 Mr. T. Vernon Wollaston on 
choulsky (Bull. Mose. iv. 515), under the name of fulves- 
cens, in 1857—the very same year in which my own 
species was brought out bearing the same title; so that, 
manifestly, it is necessary that either one or the other of 
them should be re-named. Without stating his reasons 
for the selection, the Baron Harold has consequently pro- 
posed for the Madeiran species the title ‘ Wollaston ;” 
and its corrected synonymy, therefore, will stand as fol- 
lows :— 
Stenus Wollastoni. 
Stenus Heeri, var. 8, Woll., Ins. Mad. 600 (1854). 
Stenus fulvescens, Id. [nec Mots. 1857], Cat. Mad. Col. 
198 (1857); Id., Col. Atl. 518 (1865). Stenus Wollastont, 
Har., Cat. 641 (1868). 
Hab.—Maderenses (Mad.); in sylvaticis humidis edi- 
tioribus, sub foliis quisquiliisque parce latens. 
p. 914 (genus Bueptus). 
(Sp. 1418) Bledius januvianus. 
As stated in my ‘Coleoptera Hesperidum,’ this large 
Bledius, which I met with in Lanzarote of the Canarian 
archipelago (and subsequently, also, in 8S. Vicente of the 
Cape Verdes), has been identified by M. Fauvel with 
Erichson’s B. vitulus—a species recorded from Arabia. 
Not possessing a type of Erichson’s species from which 
to form an independent opinion, I have no means of test- 
ing M. Fauvel’s determination; but assuming it to be 
correct, the following change in the synonymy will have 
to be made :— 
Bledius vitulus. 
Bledius vitulus, Erich., Gen. et Spec. Staph. 761 (1839). 
Bledius januvianus, Woll., Cat. Can. Col. 593 (1864); 
Id., Col. Atl. 514 (1865). Bledius vitulus, Id., Col. 
Hesp. 253 et 280 (1867). 
Hab.—Canarienses (Lanz.); ad margines lacus ejus 
salini ‘‘ Januvio” dicti a meipso parce deprehensus. 
