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with entirely black elytra. The elytra are rarely, if over, entirely 

 black, as far as my observation goes, and I have seen a large number 

 of examples. In a good light a gradual approach to brown is ahvavs 

 perceptible at apex. ( >. jiarticcps has been taken in some numbers Ijy niy 

 friend Mr. J. H. Keys, of Plymouth, in several places near Whitsand 

 Bay, and Mr. Elliman has also taken the species at Chesham. 



O. ajfjnix, Sturm. — In addition to its longer form and less metallic 

 appearance as compared with (>. particcps, (). ajfinis appears to be usually 

 of a paler colour. I have a specimen from Hythe (Hants) which 1 have 

 no doubt is (>. ajfinia; another from Lyndhurst is less characteristic. 

 Mr. Champion has, I believe, also taken the insect in the New Forest. 



(K ])!//fiiiai'iis, Sturm. — The small size of this insect will at once 

 distingxiish it from any other British (Hihnis. Accordin"- to some 

 authorities the elytra are alutaceous, but I have never seen this in any 

 specimen I have examined. Mr. Claude ]\Iorley has recently taken it 

 in some numbers at Brandon (Suftblk). 



In some of the foreign tables the sutural striiu are said to be 

 abbreviated in (>. fiarifi>rnis, and to reach base in (>. pa it ire pa and (). 

 ajfiiiis. I have satisfied myself that this character is of little, if any, 

 use. The males of all the species have the second joint of the anterior 

 tarsi more or less dilated. 



Notes on the additions to the British List of Coleoptera since Canon 

 Fowler's " Coleoptera of the British Isles." 



By HORACE DONISTHOErE, F.Z.S., F.E.S. 



In the l\nt(»iii>h>iiisfs Mdiithli/ Mai/a::iiu', vol. xxxiii., p. 145, iMr. 

 Champion gave a very useful list of the additions to the British cole- 

 opterous fauna since the 1893 Catalogue by Dr. Sharp and Canon 

 Fowler. It occurred to me, however, that a list since Canon Fowder's 

 Coleiipti-ra of the J>ritish Mcs would be of great service to coleopterists, 

 as some of the additions in the 1H9P> Catalogue appear there for the 

 first time, and in other cases very little has been written, or is known, 

 about them. T/tc ('(ih'ojitcra of the British Isles is our standard work 

 at present, and all coleopterists are conversant with its contents, but 

 many use Dr. Sharp's Cataloijue (2nd edition, 1S83), and are, therefore, 

 unacquainted with all the additions in the 1898 Catalogue. There 

 are also several omissions in it which should not occur, and which I 

 have taken the liberty to point out. I have used the term " aberra- 

 tion " in the Staudingerian sense, as a form that occurs more or less 

 frequently with the type, restricting the term "variety" to a local 

 race, again following Staudinger, and the general practice of the lead- 

 ing British and Continental authorities. I have arranged my list in 

 generic order, as follows :— 



i'arahiis eaiieellatiis, 111. — This unfortunate species has been con- 

 tinually knocked out of, and reinstated into, our catalogues for years. 

 I propose to give such evidence as there is for and against it, without 

 expressing an opinion as to whether it should stand or not. 

 (1) ( 'atalof/ites. — It was regarded as a good species in Mr. Waterhouse's 

 ('ataln;/,ie\lHGl), in Rye's'(18()G), and ni Fowler and ?klattliews' (1888). 

 In Crotch's Cataloinie (1808) as "reputed British," and in his 2nd 

 edition (186(5) as a doubtful species. It is not mentioned in Sharp's 

 1st (1871) or 2ud edition (1888), or in Sharp and Fowler (1898). 



