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With regard to Walton's 0. fuscipes being the same species as that so named 

 by Olivier, it may perhaps be impossible to determine, as the sculpture is so 

 differently described by different authors ; but it is certain that Schonherr so 

 regarded them ; and Germar observed a difference between 0. fuscipes, Walt., and 

 0. tenebricosus, but he regarded it merely as a variation. The insect which Dr. 

 Stierlin regards as identical with Olivier's species appears to be accepted as such 

 by continental entomologists, and such perhaps it really is ; therefore Walton's 

 species must be regarded as unnamed. I will therefore propose a name which I 

 think 'will be accepted by all who regard the species as distinct j the synonyma 

 will be as follows : — 



Otiorhynchus Waltoni, Smith. 



fuscipes, Walt. (nee. Oliv.), Ann. and Mag. 

 Nat. Hist. (1847), vol. xix, p. 445. 



fagi, Chevr., Schon. 

 Id. 



[The imposition of a new name to Mr. Walton's 0. fuscipes seems to me to be 

 rather premature. As insects are now proved to be found in Britain that have the 

 sexual character of true fuscipes, and as that species is known to vary exceedingly 

 in sculpture, it would appear more probable that Walton's insect should be a variety 

 of fuscipes than that it should require re-naming as distinct and unrecognised. 

 Moreover, by admitting the identity of this insect with fagi, which is known to be 

 a variety of fuscipes, 01., Mr. Smith does away with the necessity for giving it a 

 fresh name. Considering it as distinct from fuscipes, I presume he has carefully 

 compared it with the somewhat numerous European species in Stierlin's mono- 

 graph closely allied to that insect and to tenebricosus. Under any circumstance, 

 I cannot regret that my inability to obtain a sight of Walton's two species, or to 

 reconcile either of them with fuscipes, induced me to communicate the note that 

 has originated the interesting observations of Mr. Smith and Dr. Sharp ; as it has 

 resulted in the tolerably certain conviction that we really do possess a good species 

 allied to tenebricosus. — E. C. R.] 



Captures of Coleoptera. — In the end of August last, I took a single specimen 

 of Triplatn Lacordairii, Crotch (ruficollis, Lac), out of a hard dry fungus, near 

 Darenth Wood, Kent (it will be remembered Dr. Power took his specimen at 

 Erith). I also beat out of some dead branches a small specimen of Anisoxya, 

 fuscula near the above place, on the same day. I have also taken, in the same 

 neighbourhood, this year, Tropideres niveirostis, Hydnobius strigosus (2), Scolytus 

 intricatus, Hylastes obscurus, Opilus mollis (several), &c. ; and, in the Hemiptera, 

 Asopus luridus (2), Monanthia simplex, Phygadicus urticw, &c. 



In the middle of August last, I also found, near Croydon, Agaricophagus 

 cephalotes, Thalycra sericea, Oymnetron rostellum, &c. — G. C. Champion, 274, Wal- 

 worth Road, London, S., September, 1869. 



Captures of rare Coleoptera. — When at Sherwood, during the last summer, I 

 captured about half-a-dozen specimens of Cryptocephahis querceti, by beating oaks ; 

 and I have taken, in this neighbourhood, a single example of Cryptophagus 

 serratus from under birch bark. — J. Kidson Taylor, Thorn Cottage, Lime Grove, 

 Longsight, Manchester, October, 1869. 



