b COLEOPTERA. 



Autalia puncticolUs, Thorns., = Dr. Sharp's prior described 

 species of that name. Aleochara {Polystpma) nitidulaf 

 Thorns., Supp. (the ohscurella of his vol. iii, nee Grav.), 

 = the prior described A. r/risea^ Ktz. ; grisea. Thorns., = 

 Kirhyi, Steph. (algarum, Fauvel). Gyrofhcena jmncti- 

 collis, Thorns., = G, Poweri, Crotch. Evcestlietus jnillus, 

 Thorns., =: E, riijicapillus, Lac. (^in/Jicapillus, Thorns., being 

 IcBviusculas, Mann.). Scydmcenus denticornisj Thorns., = 

 S. claviger, Miill. and Kunze. Lathridius crenicollis, 

 Thorns., = L. testaceuSf Steph. Corticaria hirtella,Thoms,, 

 = C. fulvaj Mann. Paramecosoma {Micrambe) pilosula, 

 Thorns., = Cryptophagus vini, Er. 



Mr. Crotch has also, in No. 51, p. 47, of the same peri- 

 odical, given short notes, tending in his opinion to confirm 

 the indigenous origin of certain doubtfully British species. 

 The first of these, Hispa atra, Lin., — figured by Stephens, 

 who says he possesses two specimens of it, one taken near 

 Rochfort, in Essex, and the other from the Mai-shamian 

 Cabinet, but both of which Mr. Crotch considers very 

 doubtful, — is also noticed and figured (though this appears to 

 have escaped subsequent observation) by Barbut, *^ Genera 

 Insectorum of Linnaeus," 1781, pi. iv. Gen. 12, who gives 

 details of its capture by himself near Paddington, and 

 which capture Mr. Crotch thinks satisfactorily proved. 

 It does not seem clear, however, why Stephens' express 

 statement with regard to one of his examples should 

 be less worthy of credit than that of Barbut. Mr. Ciotch 

 thinks that very probably the species is not really indige- 

 nous; an opinion in which most British Coleopterists will 

 concur. Cassida ferruginea, Fab., is considered by Mr. 

 Crotch decidedly indigenous, from the quotation by Dillwyn, 

 in his ** Coleopterous Insects of Swansea," of a letter from 

 Dr. Leach, wherein the latter states that he possesses the 

 true insect of that name, taken at Woodlands, Devon, and 



