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priority. Thirdly, where genera have become unwieldy from 

 the numbers and heterogeneousness of their species, and are 

 necessarily, in description, divided by asterisks, &c., into sec- 

 tions and sub-sections, it seems to me that a service will be 

 rendered to science by furnishing names and characters for 

 such divisions. 



Such, then, is the object of the following sheets: their bulk, 

 I am well aware, will preclude the possibility of their publica- 

 tion being completed for a considerable time, which will afford 

 me the opportunity of making any additions which may appear 

 needful. 



Should any of our authors hereafter elaborate the subject, 

 by describing a continuous systematic list of species, I hope 

 they will do me the justice to adopt my names, where they 

 are not objectionable, and adopt them as their own ; for the 

 mere display of my own name is not the object of these memo- 

 randa. Let me add, that should entomologists transmit me 

 newly-discovered species from the country, to be described and 

 inserted in this list, I will adopt any name they may propose, 

 if at all appropriate. 



In my descriptions, terms will occasionally be employed 

 which are not at present in general use : these will be fully 

 explained in another paper, sent herewith.^ 



Class. — Coleoptera. 

 Natural Order. — Carabites, ined. 

 Genus. — Helobia. Leach. 

 Hel. lata. Nigra; ore, antemiis, prothoracis marginibus 



lateraUhus, tibiis tarsisque jnceis. 

 Black, slightly iridescent, particularly by candle-light : mandibles, 

 palpi, antennae, tibiae, and tarsi, pitchy : head black, with an inden- 

 tation less deep than in H. brevicoUis: prothorax, very wide 

 the lateral margins alone pitchy : elytra punctate-striated, very 

 wide : shoulders obtusely rounded. Somewhat resembles H. 

 Mthiops, Stephens, but is considerably larger and wider. (Length 

 6i lin. ; breadth 3 lin.) 



Taken in abundance in the neighbourhood of Cork, under 

 stones, by Mr. J. B. Bevington. 



* We have postponed the papei- alluded to, in order to admit two others, the 

 authors of which are anxious for their puhlication. We cannot in any future 

 instances publish contributions in any other order than that of their arrival. — Ed. 



