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The remainder of the notices in the present paper refer, as 

 usual, to alterations iu nomenclature or other points of interest 

 relating to species already reputed British. 



Since the last *^ Annual " appeared, Thomson's " Skandi- 

 naviens Coleoptera," to which we especially are indebted for 

 so many novelties, has been entirely completed, by the publi- 

 cation of the second instalment of that author's supple- 

 mentary series; M. DesLoges' Monograph of the European 

 BalaninidcB and Anthonomidce has been chronicled to some 

 effect, as regards Britain ; M. Fauvel has, in *' L'Abeille," 

 vi, p. 152, made some few corrections in the names of cer- 

 tain British species of Brachelytra, to which I shall, when 

 necessary, refer in the following pages ; Dr. Kraatz has 

 published a new German Catalogue; Dr. Stein's Catalogue 

 (mentioned in the last *' Annual ") has been reviewed in the 

 Stettin. Ent. Zeit. ; M. Pandelle has commenced a revision of 

 the Tachyporidce in the French " Annales;" and many other 

 papers and notices interesting to British Coleopterists have 

 appeared on the Continent. These I have no space to par- 

 ticularize, and will only briefly mention that of that gigantic 

 undertaking, the General Catalogue of Coleoptera, by Gem- 

 minger and von Harold, five volumes have now been issued, 

 up to and inclusive of the Cehrionidce. 1 have (Ent. Mo. 

 Mag. V, 247) published some remarks with respect to cer- 

 tain British species contained in vol. ii of this work, the 

 most noteworthy of which will be herein recapitulated. The 

 authors deserve every praise, as they have evidently taken 

 very great trouble ; though it seems a piiy that they did not 

 inquire of some British Entomologist with respect to certain 

 outstanding imaginary species. In my remarks above alluded 

 to, is one referring to Ischnoglossa corticalisj Steph., deposed 

 for the more recently described rufopicea, Ktz. : this is, I 



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