NEW BRITISH SPECIES, ETC., IN 1866. 109 



deposes the JEC, maritima of Waterhouse in favour of H. 

 alcjcB — presumably the species of that name brought forwai'd 

 by Messrs. Hardy and Bold, It is, however, to a supposed 

 variety of th-at species (which apparently confused both 

 jmncticeps and maritima) that Mr. Waterhouse's insect 

 must be referred; but the proved identity of the latter with 

 the prior described II . atricilla settles the question. 



HoMALOTA piCEA, Mots. Bull. Mosc. 1858 (vol. 31, pt. 2), 

 p. 254, 222 ; E. C. Rye, Ent. Mo. Mag. vol. iiii 

 p. 123. 

 I have (loc. cit.) transcribed Motschulky's description of 

 this species, taken, according to that author, in England, and 

 attributed also by De Marseul to this country alone ; and I 

 trust my fellow Coleopterists have been able to make more 

 out of it than I. No size is given for the insect, and the 

 sole comparative character afforded is that it is like jH. obllta, 

 Aube (I presume intended to mean Erichson)j but narrower 

 and darker. The abdomenis mentioned as being constricted 

 (etrangle) at the base, with only the margins of the first seg- 

 ments punctured. 



HoMALOTA NIGRITULA, Er. 



liturata, Wat. Cat. 

 This insect is erroneously placed in Mr. Crotch's Cat. 

 ed. 2; it should be next to H. dilaticornis, Ktz. 



Bryoporus Hardii, G. R. Crotch, Cat. Brit. Col. ed. 2. 

 Mr. Crotch proposes this name for the castaneus of Hdy. 

 and Bold; the latter name being pre-occupied. 



Stenus opacus, Er., Wat. Cat. ; E. C. Rye, Ent. Mo. 

 Mag. vol. ii, p. 258. 

 Herr. Kaspar Dietrich of Ziirich, in answer to a commu- 

 nication of mine with reference to his supposed species 



