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of Durham. Mr. Guyon describes a Coleopterous insect entirely new 

 to Britain, — the Tomicus bispinus of Megerle : he found it on the 

 palings of Ihe Union Workhouse at Richmond, in Surrey. Mr. Wea- 

 ver has taken, in North Wales, a number of specimens of Rhizotragus 

 ochraceus : two or three old and doubtfully British examples of this 

 insect previously existed in Britain, under the name of Amphimalla 

 Fallenii. Mr. Janson, our Curator, is the fortunate captor of a 

 species of Adelops, a most interesting genus entirely new to the 

 Fauna of Britain. Colymbetes pulchellus of Heer, captured by Mr. 

 Wailes, in Loch Lomond, has been added to our water-beetles, but, 

 on the other hand, Colymbetes dispar of Bold is shown to be pre- 

 cisely identical with C. uliginosus of our cabinets, although not of 

 Linneus. In Lepidoptera some beautiful additions to the British list 

 have been recorded ; Callimorpha Hera, a single specimen of which 

 was taken by Mr. J. J. Reeve, on the 5th of September, 1855, at 

 Newhaven, on the coast of Sussex, — the specimen is now in the 

 collection of Mr. H. Cooke, of Brighton ; Phlogophora empyrea, five 

 specimens of which were captured in October, at Brighton, by Mr. 

 Winter, — they were attracted by sugar; Trochilium scoliaeforme, seve- 

 ral specimens of which were captured bj' Mr. Ashworth, near Llangollen, 

 in North Wales, and first erroneously recorded under the name of T. 

 sphegiforme : on the other hand, Mr. Dale reduces our list of British 

 Lepidoptera, by stating that Arcturus Sparshallii of Curtis is Australian ; 

 but the series of this insect in the cabinet of the British Museum are 

 labelled, and apparently with correctness, as from South America. 

 Three new species of Australian insects are also described ; two of the 

 Coleopterous genus Deretaphrus, allied to Colydium, — D. Wollastoni 

 and D. Erichsoni ; and one Lepidopterous insect, Bombyx Oxleyi, 

 brought in the cocoon from Mount Alexander, thus affording the clew, 

 so often wanting in exotics, to the connexion of the preserved speci- 

 men with some history of its economy. In several numbers of the 

 ' Zoologist' a growing disposition has been manifested to reprobate 

 the dishonest practice of passing off" European specimens of reputed 

 British insects for really indigenous ones : this disposition is most 

 laudable, and it is to be hoped that hereafter every entomologist may 

 be brought to regard with abhorrence all such frauds on Science. 



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