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4. Aleochara algarum, Fauvel; Ent. Ann. 1867, 59. 



Mr. Crotch (I. c.) is not quite correct in attributing the 

 A. Fauvelli of my Catalogue to this sjDecies. As mentioned 

 in the last " Annual," it is to A. griseay Ktz., that A, 

 Faucelii is properly to be referred. 



5. OxYPODA HUMiDULA, Kraatz ; Ent. Ann. ]867, 108. 



Mr. Crotch (1. c.) withdraws his proposed name of £'nc^- 

 soni for this species. 



6. OxYPODA sericea, Heer. 



Mr. Crotch (1. c.) states that comparison of typical spe- 

 cimens show that Mr. Waterhouse's 0. nigrina belongs to 

 this species ; with which Fauvel unites O. exir/ua, Er., an 

 opinion in which Mr. Crotch does not concur. 



7. OxYPODA INCRASSATA, Muls. 



Mr. Crotch (1. c.) remarks that Mr. Watei'house's ex- 

 pressed doubts as to the identity of his O. aterrima with 

 this species now prove to have been correct. 



8. HoMALOTA ALGiE, Hardy, Ent. Ann. 1867, 109. 



Mr. Crotch (1. c.) thinks that Hardy's name ought to be 

 retained for one of the two distinct insects confused in his 

 supposed species. I cannot agree with him in this respect, 

 though most anxious to retain a British author's name, if it 

 1x3 really entitled to stand. 



Moreover, that one of these two insects to which Mr. 

 Crotch attributes Hardy's aJgce has been proved to be the 

 prior-described //. atricilla of Erichson. 



