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to J3. pallipes. On my communicating with him on the sub- 

 ject, and pointing out the published discrepancies between the 

 two insects, M. Brisout courteously writes to me that a second 

 and more careful examination of JB. fuscipes has convinced 

 him not only of the impossibility of referring it to B, pal- 

 lipes, but of the validity of my species. Nevertheless, I 

 am subsequently informed that M. Fauvel, who, as I believe, 

 meditates a revision of the Eui-opean Brachelytray refers 

 my insect to B. pallipes ; on what grounds I know not. 



18. OxYTELus MARiTiMUS, Tlioms. ; W. R. M^Nab, Ent. 

 Mo. Mag. iv,'ll2. 



Dr. M^Nab has pointed out, on the authority of a specimen 

 given to him by Mr. Murray and taken by Mr. Hardy him- 

 self, that the O. flavipes of Murray's Catalogue is referable 

 to this insect. It seems unfortunate that, however correct 

 this determination may be as regards the insect meant by 

 Messrs. Hardy and Murray, the O. JIavipes of Stephens, to 

 which those gentlemen refer it, does not exist in the Cabinet 

 of the latter author; the description and localities given 

 rendering it, indeed, more than doubtful whether his species 

 can be the same as that subsequently (and well) described by 

 M. Thomson. 



19.? Synchita mediolanensis. Villa, Col. Europ. dupl. 

 36, 38 ; Ericlis. Ins. Deutschl. iii, 271, 2. 



To this species is rcfen-ed with doubt the Synchita re- 

 cently taken (in some quantities) in the New Forest by 

 Charles Turner. It would appear to be impossible to form 

 a decided opinion without comparing it with S.juglandis, an 

 insect in very few British collections; and even then there 

 would remain some doubt as to its correct determination, for 



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