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[I have handed this addendum to Mr. Rye, in order that he may 
notice it in his reply, which reply, together with a postscript, written 
with especial reference to this addendum, now immediately follow, 
and with them the correspondence ceases: Mr. Rye having had the 
first hearing is entitled to the last— Edward Newman. ] 
“ On some New or Rare British Coleoptera.” By E.C. Rye, Esq. 
I HASTEN to avail myself of Mr. Newman’s permission to reply to 
Mr. Crotch’s remarks upon my paper in the ‘ Annual’ for the current 
year. It was certainly not my duty to apply to Mr. Crotch for in- 
formation ; he could only expect to establish as British the numerous 
species brought forward by him by publishing evidence of their 
specific identity and occurrence in England, and I cannot avoid 
remarking that a paper containing such information, and also stating 
precisely in what cabinets specimens of the respective species exist 
(or, if possible, could be seen) would have been of much more real 
service to Coleopterists than the publication of a Catalogue so soon 
after one has been supplied to us. 
The existence hitherto, as reputed varieties, of some of the species 
in Mr. Crotch’s ‘ Catalogue’ was of course known to me, and J added 
to some of them a note to that effect, but it is surely incumbent upon 
him, and not upon me, to make some statement of the reason for 
reproducing them as separate species. There are four insects of this 
description particularly mentioned in Mr. Crotch’s remarks, and of 
one of these, Choleva longula, Kelln., I should like to have some in- 
formation, both as to identity and locality, although aware of its being 
included as British in Murray’s ‘Monograph,’ and of its generally 
reputed specific value. I should also like to know why a query is put 
after Philonthus trossulus, Nordm.; if Mr. Crotch were not sure about 
his insect, why did he bring it forward ? 
If I had passed over the records of Liodes axillaris, Gy//., Paromalus 
parallelopipedus, Herbst, and Cerylon deplanatum, Gyll. (Zool. 8301), 
it would not have been surprising, since their names occur at random 
in a mere list of captures, with no heading to call attention to their 
being new to Britain; and surely the loose and undecided remarks on 
the latter insect are not enough to substantiate its specific identity. 
These were included by me in the main body of Mr. Crotch’s additions, 
_ partly on account of want of space, and partly in the hope of obtaining 
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