4: COLEOPTERA. 



work wliicli Dr. Sharp has now nearly completed, viz., the 

 revision of the genus Homalota, for which purpose he has 

 burthened himself with the difficulties or entire collections 

 of a very great number of British and Continental Ento- 

 mologists. 



I have myself (in the same Magazine) described our Pro- 

 tinides and species of Heterothops ; and some able original 

 observations on the oeconomy of certain Xyloyhaga have 

 appeared (E. M. M.) from the pen of Dr. T. Algernon 

 Chapman, an entire novice as regards Culeoptera, hut whose 

 acumen has gone far to prove that the Welsh border counties 

 are an unworked mine of beetle-wealth, — Rliizophagus po- 

 litus, PecUacuSy OtiorhyncJius ligustici, Cryphalus hino- 

 dulus, Hylurgus pilosuSy T amicus dry ographus (male),-4./>Ao- 

 dius porcus, &c., having all occurred to him near Aberga- 

 venny. 



Mr. G. R. Waterhouse, too long an absentee from the 

 very small band of working British Coleopterists, has at 

 length obtained from Herr Kutschera of Vienna the return 

 of a series of most of the British Halticidce known to us in 

 1863, when they were sent for the latter's opinion. Herr 

 Kutschera's remarks upon these species will be found in " The 

 Entomologist's Monthly Magazine," vol. v, p. 163 et seq., 

 and such of them as call for special comment will be noticed 

 in this article. Unfortunately, the length of time that has 

 been occupied by Herr Kutschera in their examination has 

 allowed of the introduction into our Lists of the new species, 

 &c., resulting therefrom through the recently defunct Wien. 

 Monatschr., and other channels, and notices of them have 

 appeared in former "Annuals." 



The alterations in the nomenclature of the species in Wat. 

 Cat. proposed by Herr Kutschera are as follows: — Sphcero- 

 derma carduif Gyll., for S. testacea, and S. testacea, Fab., 

 for S. ceniaurece; Aphthona ccerulea, Payk., var., for A. 



