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snow-line in the Guadarrama, more elongate than the Pyrenean type-form. 
His supposed new Bemhidium, from Alar del Hey (/. c. 1866; p. 640); he now 
refers, as a variety; to B. quadrimaculatum. 
Gautieb des Cottes (Mittheil. schweiz. entom. Gesellsch. iii. p. 131) 
gives his reasons for refusing to drop the specific name of his Bemhidium 
luridipeSy in spite of Ileiche’s prior species of tlio same name. 
Tachys tetraspilota=iquadrisignata (Dufts.); var.; Gautier des OotteS;/. c. 
p. 133. 
Sharp (Ent. Mo. Mag. vi. p. 133) refers to the Peryphus maritimus of 
Stephens and Bemhidium puellum (Duval). 
Morley (Ent. Mo. Mag. vi. p. 162) records B. ohUquum from Manchester. 
Dieck (Berl. ent. Zeitschr. xiii. p. 347) describes a larva which there is 
reason to believe is that of Scotodipnus pandellei, with which it was taken by 
him at Bagneres de Luchon. 
Crotch (Coleopt. Hefte, v. p. 112) makes the following observations: — 
Bemhidium stephensii (Crotch; Cat. Brit. Col. ed. 2) should be used for qffi7ie 
(Steph. nec Say ) ; B. suhylohosum (Payk,; 1790) should stand ; B. normannum 
(Dej.) is a good species j B. curso?' (Fab. Ent. Syst.) should stand for 
modestum (Fab. Syst. El.) j B. varicolor (Fab., 1803) should be used foitt'icolor 
(Fab.), which is preoccupied. 
New species ; — 
Tachxys madagascariensis, Fairmaire, Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 4® S(5r. ix. p. 183, 
Madagascar j T. di'hnostomoidesj Fairm. 1. c. p. 184, Mayotte, Comores. 
Tachys honariensis, Steinheil, Atti Soc. Ital. Sci. Nat. xii. p. 247, Buenos 
Ayres. 
Bemhidium ihericuxn^ de la Brulerie, Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 4® s^r. ix. p. 27, 
GuadaiTama and Reinosaj B. {Peryphus) saphyreum, Gautier des Cottes, 
Mittheil. schweiz. entom. Gesellsch. iii. p. 133, Sicily. 
Bemhidium mellissU, Wollaston, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 4th ser. iv. p. 305, 
St. Helena. 
Bemhidium atiglicanum, Sharp, Ent. Monthly Mag. vi. p. 133, Britain. 
Bemh{ic)idium stroheli, duvali, and cordillercSj Steinheil, Atti Soc. Ital. Sci. 
Nat. xii. p. 248, Mendoza. 
Ochthedromus plagiatus, Zimmerm. Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc. ii. p. 247, Mary- 
land } O. lacunariusy Ziram. 1. c. p. 248, Middle States. 
Atiillus masinissUf Dieck, Borl. ent. Zeitschr. xiii. p. 343, Taugiors; A. cor- 
duhensis, Dieck, 1. c. p. 344, Cordova j A.Jlorentinus, Dieck, ibid., Florence. 
Scotodipnus saulcyi, Dieck, 1. c. p. 345, Vallombrosa j S. hirtus, Dieck, 1. c. 
p. 346, Col di Tenda. 
Dytiscid^. 
Haliplides. 
Sharp (Ent. Mo. Mag. vi. p. 81) considers Haliplus rujicollis and II. Jiuvia- 
tilis races of one species j and thinks that, if this be conceded, his own II. 
striatus is in the same category. 
Haliplus striatus, sp. n.. Sharp, Ent. M. Mag. vi. p. 81, Scotland ; II. 
honariensis, sp. n., Steinheil, Atti Soc. Ital. Sci. Nat. xii. p. 248, Buenos 
Ayres. 
