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versation by us) new to Britain ; another of tlie same genus, 

 which, if distinct from the species just mentioned, is pro- 

 bably new to science; a Synchita new to us, and a genus 

 (Di})loccrlus) new to our lists. To those must be added the 

 establishment of i?ro^//e5 as a genuine British species, through 

 its capture (with larva and var. jjaWda} by myself, under 

 bark of a standing tree near Putney, far from any houses; 

 and the capture of both sexes of the xery rare Toinicus dispar 

 in the New Forest by Charles Turner. Doubts have fre- 

 quently been expressed as to the right of this species to be 

 considered indigenous ; but Mr. Waterhouse has long had 

 one of the Xyloteriforni female in his Cabinet, obtained 

 from the late Rev. H. Clark; and there is another old spe- 

 cimen, of the same sex, in the collection of Earl de Grey. 



We have no record, as of late years, of novelties from 

 Rannoch ; the only visit to that locality during this year, by 

 Mr. T. Blackburn, having resulted in comparatively ' nil,' 

 as regards Culeoptera, owing to stress of weather, unwonted 

 and unpleasing attentions of gamekeepers and others, &c. 

 I may here remark that Mr. Blackburn (Ent. M. Mag. iv, 

 p. 17) has recorded the capture by himself last yeai-, at 

 Rannoch, of the insect brought forward by Mr. G. R. 

 Crotch as Cis 'punctnlatns, Gyll., with some doubt, and no 

 locality ; I, also, have a specimen, taken by myself at 

 Rannoch, and which 1 am inclined to refer to that species. 



The north has, however, again furnished many good 

 things; Dr. Sharp having taken near Loch Ken both sexes 

 of the hitherto (with us) unique Bryaxh Lrfelmrii and 

 many Cryptohypnufi maritimus (found also in Morayshire 

 by Mr. Hislop) ; and, near Dumfries, several of 'a Scopccus 

 which he refers with doubt to S. Enchsonli, at the same 

 time remarking that Mr. Crotch states it to be identical with 

 the S. Icevigatus of our Catalogues (not of our Cabinets, as 



