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COLEOPTERA. 



New British Species, Corrections of Nomencla- 

 ture, ETC., NOTICED SINCE THE PUBLICATION OF THE 



Entomologist's Annual, 1866. 

 By E. C. Rye. 



As it seems probable that the undue proportion of space 

 occupied by the Coleoptera in last year's " Annual," will 

 now be at least equalled, if not exceeded, I am obliged to 

 compress my introductory remarks and the usual nptices of 

 captures; thus avoiding the ordinary reference to climatic 

 influences, — and consequent adverse criticism. Apart, how- 

 ever, from the very numerous discoveries of interesting spe- 

 cies recorded in the following pages, there are some captures 

 of insects already known to us as British, but too noteworthy 

 to be passed over without remark. These are, — Potaminus 

 substriatusj on the banks of the Trent, and Cryptocephalus 

 10-punctatuSf in Staffordshire, by Mr. J. T. Harris, of Bur- 

 ton ; Velleius dilatatus^ in the New Forest, by Charles 

 Turner ; Nemosoma elongata, in Warwickshire (in com- 

 pany with, and evidently parasitic upon, Hylesinus vittatus), 

 by Dr. Power; and Carida jiexuosa, in Scotland, and 

 Psammodius ccesus, on the Lancashire coast, by Mr. Side- 

 botham. The captures of the two latter species are par- 

 ticularly interesting, since both of them have been latterly 

 doubted as being truly indigenous to this country; and, 



