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tion of fifty catalogues adopting foreign names where they are not 
deserved will never alter the opinion of any one who has looked into 
the matter carefully, or, I trust, that of English coleopterists in 
general. 
Mr. Crotch has very properly collected at the end of his Catalogue 
numerous species hitherto included in our lists, but which require 
further evidence before they can be considered British. It is, I believe, 
generally known that these names were included in the Catalogue of 
British Coleoptera now generally in use, with a view to directing 
attention to their claims, and that they would have been expunged 
therefrom, after a certain interval, in a future edition, provided they 
received no corroboration in the mean time ; but there are, in addition 
to these, forty or fifty species entirely omitted by Mr. Crotch, probably 
intentionally, but still it would have been as well to have placed them 
amongst the appendix of doubtful claimants, since many of them 
are not more apocryphal than those to whom another chance of 
establishing themselves as British has been given. 
The following, however, surely ought to have had a place as 
British :-— 
Otiorhynchus sulcatus, Fad. Mordellistena pumila, Gy/ll.. 
Trachyphleus alternans (Schén.), Dinoderus substriatus, Steph. 
Walton Telephorus ater, Linn. 
Polydrosus micans, Fab. Hylastes palliatus, Gy. 
Rhynchites cupreus, Linn. Ptilium saxonicum, Gillm., Matth. 
Adimonia sanguinea, Fab. » discoideum, Gill. 
I can now only give a list of the names of the numerous species 
introduced as British in Mr. Crotch’s list, regretting that it is not in 
my power to give further information about them. I may, however, 
remark that it is possible some of them are representatives, under other 
names, of species already recorded, and that the queries put by Mr. 
Crotch after some of the new species are, I suspect, not undeserved, 
but no definite opinion can be given when we have no evidence or 
sufficient synonyms. 
Want of space also prevents me from noticing the very numerous 
new names brought forward as confessedly representing species already 
enumerated in our lists, and thereby necessarily causing confusion, 
which is not lessened by divers small inaccuraéies, such as Strangalia 
attenuata, Linn., appearing as a British species, and also being 
included in the list of doubtful insects, &c. 
Dromius oblitus, Boteld. (hitherto considered a var. of sigma). 
_ Patrobus rubripennis, Toms.? With respect to this insect, | may 
