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With regard to Walton's 0. fuscip.s being the same species as that » .. 
by 0,. , „ ^^^^^ ^^ .^^^.^^^ ^ determine, as the sculp r, 
differently described by differait anthers, but it is certain that Sv. 
regarded then, ■. and Gernxr observed a difference betwe™ " u:XTwT 
OU„t„cosu, bnthe regarded it naerely as a variation. TheZe 't!Si 
byTo'reS" ': "T"°" "'" ™""'= '"»"'" °™»" 'o be a-pt: * 
:^er=i^^r::^:;:ir nrtJir p:ur^' t 
Otiorhynchus Waltoni, Smith, 
/wsai^es, Walt. (neo. Oliv.), Ann. and Mag. 
Nat. Hist. (1847), vol. xix, p. 445. 
Ijj f^9i, Chevr., Schon. 
[The imposition of a new name to Mr. Walton's 0. fusci^es seems to me tc 
rather premature. As insects are now proved to be found in Britain that have 
eexua character of true fr.ci,es, and as that species is known to vary exceedi. 
zn sculpture xt would appear more probable that Walton's insect should be a vari 
of /.sapes than that it should require re-naming as distinct and unrecogni. 
Moreover, by admitting the identity of this insect with fa,i, which is knowftc 
avanetyofMape.,01.,Mr. Smith does away with the necessity for giving i 
fresh name Considering it as distinct from fusci.es, I presume he has carefi 
compared xt w^h the somewhat numerous European species in Stierlin's mo 
graph coselyalhed to that insect and to tenelricosus. Under any circumstax 
I cannot regret that my inability to obtain a sight of Walton's two species, or. 
reconcde either of them with fuscijpes, induced me to communicate the note ti 
has origmated the interesting observations of Mr. Smith and Dr Sharp • as it l' 
resulted in the tolerably certain conviction that we really do possess a g;od spec 
allied to tenelricosus.— "E. C. R.] s> i"^ 
Captures of Coleo^tera.-ln the end of August last, I took a single specir.,,^ 
of Tr^,la.Lacoraa^ri^, Crotch (ruJicolUs, Lac), out of a hard dry fungus, n. 
Darenth Wood, Kent (it wi'll be remembered Dr. Power took his specimen o 
Enth). I also beat out of some dead branches a small specimen of Aniso.. 
fuscula near the above place, on the same day. I have also taken, in the s^ 
neighbourhood, this year, Troj>ideres r^iveirostis, Hydnolius strigosus (2). Scolyij 
^ntr^catus, Hylastes oiscurus, Opilus mollis (several). &c. ; and, in the Eemi^ll 
Asopus lurvdus (2), Monanthia simplex, Phygadicus urticce &c i 
. ,'lf'\TT °' ^''°'* '"'* ' '^^° '°°^'^' °^^^' ^-^'^-' AgaricopHaJ 
cephalotes, Thalycra sericea, Gymnetron rostellum, &c.-G. C. Champion 274 ^ 
worth Road, London, S., September, 1869. ' ' ' 
Captures of rare Coleoptera.-When at Sherwood, during the last summerj 
captured about half-a-dozen specimens of Cryptocephalus .uerceti, by beating o.U 
and I have taken, in this neighbourhood, a single example of Cryptopkag.^ 
s..ra..srom under birch bark.-J. Kr.soN T...ok, Thorn Cottage, Lime GroJ 
Longsight, Manchester, October, 1869. i 
