n YD HOP HI LI DTE. . 245 
Hydrophilm gayndahensisy id, t, c. p. 129, Gayndah ; JI. quadristriatusy 
Horn, 1. c. p. 331, New Jersey : spp. nn. 
Stcrnolojdms nUidulus, sp. n., Macleay, 1. c., Gayndah, 
Philhydrus elongatuluSy maculice^ys, and marmoratus (? &,BerosuSy sec. auct.)y 
Gayndah : id. 1. c. p. 130, spp. nn. 
Ch<Btarthria picea, sp. n., Hochhuth, Bull. Mosc, xliv. p. 240, Kiew. 
Helophorides. 
Helopliorus grandis. Hochhuth, 1. c. p. 248, apparently unacquainted with 
Thomson’s works, notes a supposed sp. n. allied to hut smaller than this 
insect. 
IL griseus. Hardy (P. Berw. Nat. Club, 1871, p. 264) refers to a Cheviot 
var. of this sp. under the name spliagnicola {?=iplanicolliSj Thoms., sec. Bold, 
ibid.). 
Calohius is wrongly quoted as syn. of Ochthehkis by Gemm. & v. Harold, 
and is really more allied to Ilydrcena'. Wollaston, Tr. E. Soc. 1871, p. 223, 
note. 
Jlelophorm elegans, sp. n., Bullion, Bull. Mosc. xliii. p. 329, Turkestan. 
Ilydrochus octocarinatusy Hochhuth, 1. c. p. 249, Kiew; H.paralleluSy Mac- 
leay, 1. c. p. 133, Gayndah : spp. nn. 
Oehthehiiis tdgicolay sp. n., Wollaston, 1. c., Madeira. 
Ilydi'cma IwridipeimiSy sp. n., Macleay, 1. c.y Gayndah. 
Sphceridiides. 
Cyclonotum {Sphcet'.) depressumy Khi^y — nitidumy Poh.. y=:ahdominale, F. : 
Gerstiicker, Arch. f. Nat. xxxvii. p. 43. 
Cyclonotum mastersi and pygmceunXy Gayndah : Macleay, 1. c. p. 133, spp. nn. 
Paussid^e. 
Arthropterus iceskcoodi and mastersiy p. 163, angusticornisy kingiy and elon- 
gattdusy p. 154, Gayndah, id. 1. c.y spp. nn. 
Staphylinid^e. 
Fauvel (L’Ab. v. pp. 479-494) has published some synonymical remarks 
upon the Brachelytra of Gemminger and von Harold’s Catalogue, which 
appear to have escaped the Becorder of Zool. Rec. v., and need not be repro- 
duced after so long an interval. 
Aleocharides . 
Ocalea rivularisyM\\\.y — cmtanea, Er., var. teste Sharp: Rye, Ent. Ann, 
1872, p. 38. 
Aleochara villosay Mann., recorded as British, with some reserve, by Bold 
(Cat. Ins. North. Durh. p. 114), who gives its characters in Ent. M. M. vii. 
p. 275. 
Oxypoda hrachypieray Ktz., nee Steph., is named kraatzi : Rye, 1. c. p. 63. 
O. spectahilisy Mark., is to be used for rujvcornisy Gyll., nec Grav. (Aleoch.) : 
Sharp, Tr. E. Soc. 1871, p. 187 [v. Harold, C. H. vii. p. 124, considers that 
