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account of the expression " elytris subfastigiatis ;* and Gyllonhal's he rejects, 

 because the variation in the sculpture of the prothorax allowed by that author 

 would include both the species. Supposing, however, that these reasons were 

 allowed as suflficient to disestablish such well-known species, there would still 

 remain the names proposed for them by authors subsequent to Linnaeus and 

 Gyllenhal ; and (without endeavouring to substantiate others) Comari, Suffrian, 

 for the one (though utterly ignored by Thomson, save in the above-mentioned 

 reference), and Proteus, Steph., for the other, would effectually bar such sharp 

 practice as that in which Thomson has indulged in the present instance. 



M. Marmottan, in the " Excursion de 1866 dans les Vosges et I'Alsace" (Ann. 

 Soc. Ent. de Fr., 1867, vii, p. 679), speaks of the existence of an opinion as to 

 Comari being only a simple var. of sericea (!) ; he also states that, up to the time 

 of its capture at the lake of Lispach, it was only known as occurring in Germany. 

 "Discovered by the late James Foxcroft, in Perthshire, in May, 1854," is the 

 statement in Ent. Annual, 1861, on its being recorded as British by Mr. Janson. — Id. 



Captures of Coleojptera during the past season. — At Shirley and "Wickham I have 

 taken the following species : '-Murmidius ovalis, one specimen, by sifting heaps of 

 dead leaves, cut grass, &c., accompanied by Euthia plicata (Dr. Power appears to 

 have long ago taken a specimen of M. ovalis, at Madingley Wood, Cambridgeshire), 

 Mycetojporus puncUis, Euplectus Kvmzei, Tachyrmus comari, Ceuthorhynchus crux, 

 Miarus campanulce, Homalota angustula, divisa, triangulum, and coriaria, Olihrus 

 pygmceus, Stenus pallipes, and S. circularis, in sand-pits. Salpingus castaneuSf 

 Phlceophthorus, and Tormcus micrographus, by beating fir branches. Tachinus 

 elongatulus (1) , by sweeping under fir trees. 



At Mickleham, Homalota rufotestacea, ohlita, angusticollis, and divisa, by sifting 

 dead leaves. Apliodius porous, about a dozen specimens, in dung. By promiscuous 

 sweeping I have taken Apion filirostre and J., atomarium, Baridius picico^mis, Tracliys 

 namis, Ceuthorhynchus cochlea/rice, crux, terminatus, and alliarice, Cassida hemi- 

 sphcerica, Mantura Matthewsii, Gymnetron melanarium and E. noctis, Phyllotreta 

 nodicornis and P. ochripes, Crepidodera ventralis, Thyamis gracilis, Coccinella hiero- 

 glyphica, and Psylliodes attenuata. 



At Weybridge, Homalota lcBvana,'\ celata, Thomsoni, and sodalis. Smicronyx 

 cicur and Haploglossa rufipsnnis, by sweeping the heath. Pachyrinus 4:-tu'berculatus, 

 by sweeping in damp places. Erirhinus agnathus, on sallows. 



At Lee, Magdalinus harhicomis, by beating hedges ; and Xylophihzs popuVneus, 

 by casual sweeping. At Heme Bay, Apion Gyllenhali (in some numbers), A. similOf 

 and Ceuthorhynchus terminatus, by sweeping on the coast. At Birch Wood, Nossi- 

 diwm, in profusion, by sifting dead leaves, and Lycoperdina in fungus. At Gravesend, 

 Hister marginatus, by sweeping in damp places on the river banks, and Nitidula 

 rufipes in a dead animal. At Cobham, Kent, Abdera bifasciata. At Wimbledon, 

 Stenus melanoA^us (2) and Chcetocnema confusa (2). At Southend, Harpalus servus 

 (2) and Chrysomela marginata, under stones on sand-hills. At Sevenoaks, Apion 

 dissimile. At St. Leonards Forest, Sussex, Bembidiwm obliquum (3), on the banks 



* I am not sure that I exactly appreciate this word : but faatigium may, I think, mean " a ridge;" 

 and the elytra of tericea can certainly be considered as exhibiting traces of transverse ridges. Or, it 

 may mean " a gable in which case Linnaeus would possibly refer to the arc of the two elytra. — E. C. B. 



[t These difficult species, were, we beliove, named by Dr. Sharp ; and may, therefore, be relied 

 upon.— Ed3.] 



