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account of the expression " elytris subfastigiatis ;* and Gyllenhal'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 sufficient to disestablish such well-known species, there would still 
remain the names proposed for them by authors subsequent to Linnseus and 
Gyllenhalj and (without endeavouring to substantiate others) ComaH, 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 
Coman 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—Io. 
Captures of Coleojptera during the past season.- At Shii-ley andWickham I have 
taken the following sjpecies : -Murmidius ovalis, one specimen, by siftino- heaps of 
dead leaves, cut grass, &o., accompanied by Euthia plicata (Dr. Power Appears to 
have long ago taken a specimen of J)f. ovalis, at Madingley Wood, Cambridgeshire) 
Mycetoporus punctus, Euplectus Eunzei, Pachyrinus comwri, Ceuthorhynchus crux 
Miarxts campanuU, Homalota angustula, divisa, triangulum, and coriaria, Olibrus 
pygmceus, Stenus pallipes, and S. drcularis, in sand-pits. Salpingus castaneus, 
PhlcBopMhorus, and Tomicus micrographus, by beating fir branches. TacMnus 
elongatulus (1), by sweeping under fir trees. 
At Mickleham, Homalota rufotestacea, oblUa, angusticolUs, andcKmsa, by sifting 
dead leaves. Aphodius porous, about a dozen specimens, in dung. By promiscuous 
Bweepmg I have taken Apion fiUrostre and A. atomarium, Baridius picicomis, Trachys 
nanus, Ceuthorhynchus cochlearicB, crux, terminatns, and alliarice, Cassida hemu 
sphcBr^ca, MoMtura Matthewsii, Oymnetron melanarium and E. noctis, Phyllotreta 
nodicornis and P. ochripes, Crepidodera ventralis, Thy amis gracilis, Coccinella Mero- 
glyphica, and Psylliodes attenuata. 
_ At Weybridge, Homalota lcBvana,f celata, Thomsoni, and sodalis. Smicronyx 
cxcur and Eaploglossa rufipennis, by sweeping the heath. Pachyrinus 4..tubeTculatm, 
by sweeping in damp places. Erirhinus agnathus, on sallows. 
At Lee, Magdalinus barbicornis, by beating hedges ; and Xylophilus populneus, 
by casual sweeping. At Heme Bay, Apion Gyllenhali (in some numbers), A. simile, 
and Ceuthorhynchus terminatus, by sweeping on the coast. At Birch Wood, Nossi- 
dium, in profusion, by sifting dead leaves, and Lycoperdina in fungus. At Gravesend 
mster marginatus, by sweeping in damp places on the river banks, and Nitidula 
rufipes m a dead animal. At Cobham, Kent, Abdera bifasciata. At Wimbledon 
Stenus meUnarvus (2) and Ch^tocnenia confusa (2). At Southend, Harpalus servus 
(2) and Chrysomela marginata, under stones on sand-hHls. At Sevenoaks Apion 
disstrmle. At St. Leonards Forest, Sussex. BemUdium obliquum (3), on the banks 
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