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0. fv^cipeso^ Mr. Walton Is OHvier'e species of the same name is, however 
another th:ng ; this appears to have been doubted by Mr. Rye on account \ 
dea that 0. tenehricosus and fuscipes, Walton, were but one species, wh 
tenelruosu. and fuscipes, 01., are generally admitted abroad as distinct sp 
and a^o because a specimen of 0. fuscipes sent to the Brit. Mus. by Dr St 
IS a distmct species from fuscipes, Walton. The first of Mr. Rye's reaso 
however._ erroneous; and as regards the second, without expressing any very 
twe opmxon, I will remark that it appears to me by no means improbable I 
O./uscp. of Ohv.er, Walton and Stierlin wiD prove to be one species, and 
he specmen (m the Museum collection) referred to, has probably been hasti 
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[Dr. Sharp, in his discovery of British males of «0. fuscipes'^ exhibiting the 
rect sexual character, has evidently been more fortunate than I. I have exa. 
many specimens, including those in the British Museum, and aU others that I c 
get to see that have passed through the late Mr. Walton's hands, and have . 
been able to find any males except those exhibiting the sexual character c 
tenelr.cosus. Mr. Waterhouse informs me that Mr. Walton, when engagec 
those two species, separated the specimens in his coUection which he suppose 
represent them, and that these specimens have so remained until the present 
Thesealso, I have recently examined, and find the males of the so-called "/-«, 
to be males onenelricosus, with wide and coarse striations in the middle of the 
abdommal segment. Dr. Sharp's idea, that the^c^^es in the Brit. Mus., sent by 
St.erhn was hastily or erroneously determined, is negatived by that auth 
pubhshed description of the species in question in his monograph, with which 
from different parts of the continent, all of which agree with Dr. Stierlin's ins 
I cannot beheve that so able an Entomologist, monographing the genus, could r 
t^ke so common and apparently well known a species. My idea that Walt, 
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himself-who though noting the correct sexual character for <? of the former, on 
reference to it in describing the latter insect. If Walton's /usa^e. be, contrlry 
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AutaliapuncticolUs iaJcen m Northumberland—Amongst a few insects tak 
on Cheviot, by my friend, Mr. James Hardy, in the last week oTZy are t 
specimens of ^..a.ap..ci.co.^.. Sharp, a beetle not hitherto recordedasfo 
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men ^^^llT'"'"' ''''''' '^'"^•' '"^ ^-«-^-0n the 25th ulto., a spec 
one of the coal pits m this neighbourhood. It was brought to me alive tb 
