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0. fuscipes of Mr. Walton is Olivier' s species of the same name is, however, quite 

 another thing ; this appears to have been doubted by Mr. Rye on account of his 

 idea that 0. tenebricosus and fuscipes, Walton, were but one species, while 0. 

 tenebricosus and fuscipes, 01., are generally admitted abroad as distinct species, 

 and also because a specimen of 0. fuscipes sent to the Brit. Mus. by Dr. Stierlin 

 is a distinct species from fuscipes, Walton. The first of Mr. Rye's reasons is, 

 however, erroneous ; and as regards the second, without expressing any very posi- 

 tive opinion, I will remark that it appears to me by no means improbable that the 

 0. fuscipes of Olivier, Walton and Stierlin will prove to be one species, and that 

 the specimen (in the Museum collection) referred to, has probably been hastily or 

 erroneously determined by Dr. Stierlin. — D. Sharp, Thornhill, Dumfries, 5th 

 August, 1869. 



[Dr. Sharp, in his discovery of British males of " 0. fuscipes" exhibiting the cor- 

 rect sexual character, has evidently been more fortunate than I. I have examined 

 many specimens, including those in the British Museum, and all others that I could 

 get to see that have passed through the late Mr. Walton's hands, and have never 

 been able to find any males except those exhibiting the sexual character of 0. 

 tenebricosus. Mr. Waterhouse informs me that Mr. Walton, when engaged on 

 those two species, separated the specimens in his collection which he supposed to 

 represent them, and that these specimens have so remained until the present day. 

 These also, I have recently examined, and find the males of the so-called "fuscipes " 

 to be males of tenebricosus, with wide and coarse striations in the middle of the last 

 abdominal segment. Dr. Sharp's idea, that the fuscipes in the Brit. Mus., sent by Dr. 

 Stierlin, was hastily or erroneously determined, is negatived by that author's 

 published description of the species in question in his monograph, with which his 

 exponent agrees : moreover, I possess, and have seen other examples of fuscipes sent 

 from different parts of the continent, all of which agree with Dr. Stierlin's insect. 

 I cannot believe that so able an Entomologist, monographing the genus, could mis- 

 take so common and apparently well known a species. My idea that Walton's 

 tenebricosus and fuscipes are but one species may, as Dr. Sharp observes, be erro- 

 neous, but it was arrived at after examining specimens named by that author 

 himself — who, though noting the correct sexual character for $ of the former, omits 

 reference to it in describing the latter insect. If Walton's fuscipes be, contrary to 

 my opinion, rightly so named, his detection of an additional character in the 

 relative length of the joints of its antennas may be added to Stierlin's diagnosis. — 

 E. C. R.] 



Autalia puncticollis taken in Northumberland. — Amongst a few insects taken 

 on Cheviot, by my friend, Mr. James Hardy, in the last week of July, are two 

 specimens of Autalia puncticollis, Sharp, a beetle not hitherto recorded as found 

 in England, I believe. — Thos. Jno. Bold, Long Benton, Newcastle-on-Tyne, 

 September 19th, 1869. 



Capture of Monohammus sutor, Linn., in Scotland. — On the 25th ulto., a speci- 

 men of this fine longicorn was captured by a workman on the timber at the mouth 

 of one of the coal pits in this neighbourhood. It was brought to me alive the 



