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that Ratzeburg seems to have been compelled to add a postcript, by which (as he 

 likens the beetle in turns to bicolor, bidens, autographus, laricis and curvidens) he 

 has apparently still further obscured its affinities, since in no Catalogue until the 

 last edition of de Marseul's has it appeared in its correct place in Tomicus or its sub- 

 genera. There is another alni, published by Mulsant in the same year as Georg's 

 species, but which is sunk as a synonym of Saxesenii, Ratz. — B. C. Rye, 10, Lower 

 Park Fields, Putney, S.W. 



Additions to the list of British Coleoptera. — Mons. Chas. Brisout de Barneville, 

 to whom I sent in 1869 some doubtful species of British Coleoptera for corroboration, 

 has recently communicated a list of them to me, from which I am enabled on his 

 authority to add the following to our list : — 



Bagous nodulosus (Gyll.) Schon., Syn. Ins., 75. One of my two exponents of 

 B. binodulus, given to me by the late Rev. H. Clark, who took it, I believe, near 

 Arundel, is undoubtedly that species ; the other, obtained from Mr. Brewer, is as 

 undoubtedly nodulosus. I do not know the locality of this second specimen, but 

 was informed it was also from Mr. Clark's collection. B. nodulosus was erroneously 

 introduced into our lists by myself some years ago, upon an enormous and abraded 

 example of B. lutulewtus ; and it appears to have escaped record since through some 

 oversight, as Mr. G. R. Crotch tells me that he has for some time known that we 

 have both species in this country ; B. binodulus, indeed, being much the rarer of 

 the two, as he had only one specimen of it, taken by Mr. Brewer in the fens. 



Tychius (Sibynes) sodolis, Germ., (Boh.) Schon., Syn. Ins., 377 (cretaceus, Bris.). 

 This is the 8. statices, M.S., of Moncreaff, in " Newman's Entomologist." See Ent. 

 Ann., 1870. 



Cryptophagus fumatus, Gyll.; Er., Ins. Deutschl., iii, 363. Already attributed 

 to Britain, in De Marseul's Catalogue, possibly from the Stephensian reference in 

 Erichson (Stephen's insect is dentatus). Taken by Mr. Bold in Northumberland. 



Meligethes fulvipes, Brisout in Gren. Cat. et Mat., 49. This is the " 6, spec 

 nov. ? " of Wat. Cat., from Southend, allied to M. ceneus. 



M. rotundicollis, Brisout, I.e., 56. Prom Mickleham, Allied to M. picipes, from 

 which it differs in its thorax being more strongly rounded at the sides, its finer 

 punctuation, and its tibiee being less strongly denticulated. 



I reserve for a future communication remarks upon some other species appa- 

 rently new to us in this genus, named for me by M. Brisout. Mr. Crotch has very 

 kindly sent me a list of British Meligethes from his own collection, also revised by 

 the same authority, and which contains at least two other species new to our lists, 

 and not amongst my additions. 



M. Brisout also corroborates the Meligethes originally brought forward by 

 me as Kunzei ; identifies the Ceuthorhynchus rnarginatus with 6-jointed funiculus 

 referred to in the last No. of this Magazine by me as C. distinctus, Bris. ; and 

 corroborates as C. vicinus (sibi) one small and two larger specimens from 

 Southend hitherto referred to that species with doubt by me. — Id. 



Localities for Homalota. — The following species of Homalota (with others 

 too common to mention, in all 86 in number) have been taken by me during the 

 last two seasons, chiefly in the London district. All of them have been examined 



