NOTES ON NEW AND RARE LOCAL BEETLES. 411 



One point is quite clear from Prof. Beare's examination of 

 the synonymy, i.e., this particular species has never, before 

 been taken in Great Britain, and therefore it is a genuine 

 addition to the British fauna. 



My sincerest thanks are due to Mr. Holland for having 

 first pointed out this interesting" addition to our fauna, and to 

 Prof. Hudson Beare for so kindly and generously supplying 

 me with its literature and history. 



n. — The European Species of the Genus Triplax, with some 

 notes on the species whicli occiir in Great Britain, and 

 a table of their distinctive cha7-acters. 



By Prof. T. Hudson Beare, B.Sc, F.R.S.E. 



(Reprinted, by permission, from the "Entomologist's Monthly- 

 Magazine," Second Series, vol. xvi.) 



During the past few weeks, in my endeavours to settle the 

 synonymy of the new species of this genus introduced into 

 our fauna by Mr. Bagnall, I have been consulting most of the 

 literature on the genus Triplax, and it occurred to me that 

 there were interesting points to which the attention of our 

 present-day coleopterists might be drawn. Marsham in his 

 Ent. Brit. (1802), p. 121, described four species as occurring 

 in this country, russica, bicolor, flava, and castanea; the last 

 three were then described for the first time, but the first of 

 these three we now know to have been anea, Schal., the last 

 of them was only an immature variety of russica, and about 

 the second I can say nothing, as I have failed to identify it. 

 Stephens in his "Manual of British Coleoptera " (1839), 

 p. 133, in addition to russica, cenea, and bicolor, introduced 

 rufipes, F., and ruficollis, Steph. Mr. G. R. Waterhouse in his 

 Catalogue (1861) corrected the mistake of Stephens in regard 

 to bicolor, and thus introduced for the first time ruficollis, 

 l.a.c.^lacordairei, Crotch ; he, however, retained the last two 

 species of Stephens' list, though correcting their synonymy, 



