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Note on Bledius fuscipes, Rye.—On 15th April last, I captured a few specimens 
of this insect, at Crosby, near Liverpool. At first sight it resembles B. subterraneus, 
which may account for my not taking more specimens at the time. However, on a 
subsequent occasion, I took a considerable number of this species. They occurred 
in a sandy freshwater marsh, surrounded by sand-hills of tolerable elevation, es- 
pecially on the side next the sea. I also found the insect in another marsh, further 
(about quarter of a mile) inland: here they were, perhaps, more abundant, and 
were unaccompanied by B. arenarius, which was very common in the marsh nearer 
the sea. 
They were generally found in pairs ; one, probably 2, being at the bottom of 
a down-cast burrow about one and a half inches deep, and the other in a short 
transverse burrow, close to the mouth. 
The burrows were easily detected by the small mound of dry sand raised by the 
insect in the process of excavation, and were exactly like the sand-heaps formed 
by B. bicornis, only very much smaller in size, and differing completely from the 
sinuous galleries of either B. arenarius or B. subterraneus, which are invariably 
close to the surface. 
If Bledius fuscipes be a desideratum to any of the readers of the Ent. Mon. Mag., 
I shall be happy to forward specimens, on receipt of box and return postage.— 
J. Kipson Tayror, 3, Shakespeare Terrace, Old Trafford, Manchester, 4th May, 1870. 
On the synonymy of certain Coptoderides from the Amazons.—In the ‘ Compte- 
rendu’ (No. 46) of the Soc. Ent. de Belgique for 5 March, 1870, is a communication 
from M. Putzeys, revising, on the authority of Mr. H. W. Bates, the synonymy of 
certain Coptoderides described by M. le baron de Chaudoir in yol. xii, Ann. Soe. 
Ent. Belg., and which unfortunately clash with Mr. Bates’ species described shortly 
before in this Magazine. The following corrections are noted by M. Putzeys: 
Gen. Ferus, Chaud.,=Phleotherates, B.; Coptodera affinis, Ch.,=versicolor, B.; C. 
Batesi, Ch.,=megalops, B.; C. spinipennis, B.,=acutipennis, Buq.; C. weneocwprea, 
Ch.,=chalcites, B.; C. rotundipennis, Ch.,=relucens, B.; C. chalcoptera, Ch.,= 
eneorufa, B.; C. debilis, B.,=nitidula, Bug.; C. amazonica, Ch.,—cupreotincta, B. ; 
C. misella, Ch.,—lineolata, B.; C. discoguttata, Ch.,=cyanella, B.; Lelis viridipennis, 
Ch.,=C. rutila, B.; L. bifasciata, Ch..—C. polygona, B.; Stenoglossa nigrosignata, 
Ch.,=fulminans, B.; S. corticalis, Ch..—dromioides, B.; 8. atriceps, B..=transversa, 
Reiche; S. pallida, B.,.=nigrostriata, Reiche.—E. C. Ryn, Putney. 
Coleoptera in Morayshire.—Having revisited this district in May, 1868, I took 
additional notes of the species that came in my way. The most valued capture 
after Magdalinus duplicatus and Cryptohypnus pulchellus, both recorded in Vol. 5 
of the Magazine, was the tiny Brachonyx indigena. It has been said that Turner 
obtained this insect in Scotland upon birches: my experience, however, coincides 
with that of continental collectors, who find it, according to Lacordaire and others, 
on pines in the boreal regions of Kurope, and in some of the mountainous districts 
of Germany. Only two specimens were obtained, notwithstanding repeated sweep- 
ings and beatings on several occasions all around “‘the lucky spot.” These examples 
differ somewhat in colour, the one being uniformly testaceous, while the other has 
the thorax of a dark brown (and is the smaller of the two). 
