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are numbered throughout. Its chief features are the entire 

 omission in the great majority of instances, and the extreme 

 abbreviation in others, of the names of the authors of spe- 

 cies, which cannot fail to militate severely against its useful- 

 ness, — and the erection of " sub-species," a rank new to our 

 lists. Perhaps, also, to these should be added the location 

 of Necrophorus in the ** Genera incertce sedis.^' 



I omit any reference to my own list (appended to a slight 

 work of introduction to the study of British Beetles, and 

 published during the past year), as it consists mainly of Mr. 

 Waterhouse's Catalogue, with some few alterations in posi- 

 tion, and the addition of the species discovered since the time 

 of publication of the latter. 



Species New to Science. 

 1. OxYPODA RUPicoLA, Rye, **The Entomologist's Monthly 

 Magazine," vol. iii. p. 66, described. 

 Found by me under stones at the top of " Grayvel,*' Ran- 

 noch. Allied to O. lentula, Er., but of a rather deeper black 

 colour, with longer antennae, the joints of which are not 

 quite so transverse, the thorax not so wide, ths elytra longer, 

 the head more parallel-sided, not being widest behind and 

 contracted in front, as in that species, — and the tarsi (es- 

 pecially the hinder pair) longer and thinner. From O. lon- 

 giuscula, Er., which it resembles in build, it may be known 

 by its uniformly black colour, smaller size, and shorter and 

 slighter antennae, the joints of which are less conic. There 

 are two other species, O. islandica, Ktz., and O. ohscura, 

 Ktz., to which it must be somewhat allied ; the former, 

 however, has shorter elytra and a fusco-testaceous apex ; 

 and 0, rupicola seems sufficiently distinguishable from the 



