NEW BRITISH SPECIES, ETC., IN 1869. 55 



of O, investigatoj'um prevent its being confounded with any 

 other of our species. I have not seen truly British exiguUf 

 which appears to resemble Homalota jjygmcea, and to have 

 the apex of the abdomen almost entirely unpunctured and 

 shining. 



22. OxYPODA AMCENA, Fairm. et Lab., Faune Ent. Frang., 

 436; Ent. Ann., 1864; E. C. Rye, 1. c. 3. 

 IVaterhouseiy Rye, 1. c, v, 248. 

 nigrofusca, Waterh. (nee Stephens). 

 The above is the correct synonymy, according to M. Fauvel 

 (to whom I have sent specimens of Mr. Waterhouse's in- 

 sect), of the species hitherto known to us as the nigrofusca 

 of Wat. Cat. (not to be confounded with nigrqfuscaj Kirby, 

 Stephens, which is a form of longiuscula). Bu^, in the 

 modern lists, Fairmaire's insect is identified with Kraatz's 

 fiavicornis, recorded as British by Dr. Sharp, in Ent. Mo. 

 Mag., V, 101 (Ent. Annual, 1869), and which is not iden- 

 tical with Mr. Waterhouse's species. 



23. OxYPODA RiPARiA, Fairmaire, Ann. de la Soc. Ent. de 

 France, 1859, 38 ; E. C. Rye, 1. c. 

 rufula, Wat. Cat., nee Mulsant. 

 According to M. Fauvel, to whom I have sent authentic 

 types, the above change in our List must be made. I ob- 

 serve that Mr. G. R. Crotch, in his Catalogue, 2nd edn. (in 

 this instance, as in one or two others in this genus in which 

 I now propose to make corrections'), includes io^A species ; 

 but I presume that his O. riifula represents the insect so 

 called in Mr. Waterhouse's Catalogue. 



