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COLEOPTEEA. 



New British Species, Corrections of Nomencla- 

 ture, ETC., NOTICED SINCE THE PUBLICATION OF THE 



Entomologist's Annual, 1869. 



By E. C. Rye. 



So far from Entomolog-y in this country (as regards Cole- 

 opiei'ttf at least) being at ft stand-still, I have now to enumerate 

 additions to our list probably more numerous and interesting 

 than those in any former article. 



Three new and important genera, Oxynoptilus, Triartkron 

 and Lepyrus, are now to be reckoned British ; and to these 

 may be added Ariclius and Murmidius by those who, as to 

 the first, are satisfied with its generic sufficiency, and as to 

 the second, with such evidence of origin as is now adduced. 

 It is, indeed, hardly worth i-eferring to Ar'idius as an addi- 

 tion ; since our list could, of course, be swelled indefinitely 

 by adopting all the artificial divisions from time to time pro- 

 posed as genera. Yet another genus may be (provisionally, 

 at all events) added to our list, viz., MicrojHiniis, Wollaston 

 (NitpuSy'Dnv.); and, if this Canarian and Cape de Verde 

 form can be credited as extending to the Orkneys, the addi- 

 tion will, apparently, be not only British but European ; for 

 I do not find Microptinus or Nitpus in Stein's recent Cata- 

 logue, or in the last edition of De Marseul's more compre- 

 hensive list. 



Besides these, since the last "Annual," notess than thirty- 

 eight species will be found to have been described as new to 



