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Staphylintis ochropterus, Germar (a synonym of chalceocephalus, Fab.) is attri- 

 buted to England. Ocypus sericeus. Marsh., is reco^ized as a synonym of pici- 

 pennis, Fab. Philonthus chalceus, Stcph., following Wat. Cat., is made a syn. of 

 carhonariusy Gyll., — the carhonarius of Wat. Cat. being succicola, Thorns., here given 

 as distinct. To add (how unnecessarily !) to the confusion re Philonthus puncti- 

 ventris, Ktz., it would seem that that insect (if distinct from temporalis, Muls., as I 

 am informed by M. Fauvel that in the opinion of himself and other continental 

 authors, it is not) will require to be re-named, as there is a prior P. punctiventris 

 of Kirby and Stephens, which is, however, only a variety of varians. In that case, 

 rhcBticus, Stierlin in litt., may stand. Othius punctipennis, Lac, is identified with 

 and yet improperly placed before Stephens' Iceviusculus. 



Stenus aceris, Steph., Lac, &c., is given as distinct, though long ago shown by 

 Messrs. Waterhouse and Janson (Trans. Ent. Soc, iii, n. s., p. v, xvi, 1855) to be 

 synonymous with impressus, Germ., and so recognized by Kraatz ; and this in 

 spite of Stephens' suhrugosus and tenuicornis being correctly placed as synonyms of 

 impressus in the work now being noticed. Stenus assimilis, Stephens, is given 

 as distinct, though it is not recognizable or known to British Entomologists : in 

 Steph. Coll. it is represented by his own Irunnipes. Stenus dehilis, Dietrich in 

 litt., is attributed to me ; and to it opacus, Waterh. in litt., is added as a synonym, 

 evidently in error. S. pallitarsis, Kirby, Notes and Coll., Stephens 111. and Coll., 

 is rightly adopted instead of plantaris, Er. S. 8hep(h)erdi, Crotch, is stated to be 

 ? of ruralis, Er. 8. sulcicollis, Steph., is given as a species, though, accordinjif to 

 Waterh. and Jans., 1. c, there is no description, but only a diagnosis of it in Kirby's 

 MSS., which is copied with slight alterations by Stephens, whose description in 

 Illust. probably refers to small gonymelasy and whose exponent in Coll. is melanopiis. 

 Bledius Ruddiiy Steph., is given as a syn. of taurus, instead of hicornis, possibly 

 through printer's error in Wat. Cat. Philorhinum subpuhescens, Steph. (111. and 

 Coll.), is apparently correctly adopted instead of humile, Er. Homalium ocellatum, 

 WoU., and Allardi, Fairm., are considered identical j erroneously, as I think, — having 

 examined Mr. WoUaston's type. 



Among the Necropliaga, &c., I note the following : — 



Bryaxis assimilis, Curtis, Brit. Ent., vii, t. 315, Schaum, Zool., 1847, p. 1933, 

 and B. nigricomis, Vigors, Zool. Jouru., ii, p. 453, are given as good species, and, 

 of course, British. Bryaxis simplex, Waterh., will require to be re-named, on 

 account of the prior species from the East Iiulies of that name, described by Mot- 

 sclmlsky, Bull. Mosc, 1851. I accordingly propose the name " Waterhousei" for 

 it. It is quite a mistake to suppose this insect can possibly be xantlwptera, 

 Beichenb. ; and I am surprised that the late Dr. Schaum should have overlooked 

 its sexual character. Scydma^ntbs fossiger, and others, Leconte, are not unlikely to 

 mislead through their locality, " Cambridge" Amhiguam tellure nova Salamina 

 futuram"). 



S. Wetterhali, Gyll., through its syn., quad/ratus, Miill. et Kunze, is attributed to 

 Britain. Necrophorus sepulchralis, Charpentier, by its syn., anglicus, Steph. (not in 

 Wat. Cat.), is referred to this country, — possibly through an ohrutor, another of its 

 synonymies, being in Steph. Man Silpha Grieshachiana, Steph., and recta. Marsh., 

 are attributed without doubt to carinata, 111., which, therefore, is to be ranked as a 

 British species, — apparently because Stephens has so referred his insect (not in 



