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group of two excursions to Vielsalm, a list of 8 species, \vherein Aleocham 
lanuginosa, Xantholinus pimctulatus, Philonthus spihndem, Quedkcs impressus 
and Ilomalium rimdare are conspicuous. 
Aleo char ides. 
Rye (Ent. Mo, Mag. vi. pp. 2 & 3) makes some corrections in the nomeu-. 
clature of British Aleucharides. 
Bold (Ent. Mo. Mag. vi. p. 108) records Autalia pimcticollis (Sharp) from 
England. 
Falagria formosa (Rosenh.) = e/c< 7 «ws (Baudi). Baudi, Berl. ent. Zeitschr. 
xiii. p. 369. 
Baudi (1. c.) describes (with a query as to specific value) a variety of 
Bolituchara varia (Er.) from Cyprus j ho also notes (p. 374, note) a laige form 
of Callicenis ohscurus, from Piedmont, to which Fauvel has given the MS. 
name of yuv. j^edcmontanus, and which Kraatz (ibid.) determines as C. atricollis 
(Aube), a good species, erroneously printed atricaimis in Stein’s catalogue, 
Baudi (ibid.) reproduces the description of Calodera {Ilyobates) rufa (Ktz.), 
which he had proposed to describe as a new species, under the hqiwq ' puntice 2 )s, 
thinking Kraatz’s msact^propinqua (Aube). Kraatz (/. c. p, 375, note) 
affirms the validity of his species. Baudi (ibid.) states that the specific 
name of Calodera meah (Truq.) is a convivial shibboleth of students at 
Turin. 
Fauvel (L’Abeillo, vi. p. 150) makes the following synonymical correc- 
tions: — l%ytosus dinudiatus{'X o\\^x^i.)=i8p^nifer, $ (Curtis) j Atemeles (var.P) 
nigricollis (Ktz.') =emaryinata (Fab,); Ilomalota imbecilla (Waterh.)=?ne- 
ridio7ialis (Muls. & Rey) j Oligota xanthopyga (Ktz.) = Somatimn atmle 
(WolL); Millcena (sic) elongata {Ktz.)=i glauca (Aube). 
Sharp (Ent. Mo.Mag. vi. p. 134) gives structural characters for distinguishing 
specifically between Aleochara fuseipes (Grav.) and A. lata (Grav.). lie also 
connects A. fnmata (Grav.) to A. bt'evipennis (Grav.), as a var., having all 
intermediate foims. 
Calodera (Jlyohates) bomiairei (Fauvel) = Oxypoda glabriventris (Rye). 
Rye, 1. c. p. 3. 
Rye (/. c. p. 248) proposes the specific name waterhousei for Oxypoda 
niyro-ftisca (Waterhouse), the latter name having already been employed for 
an Oxypoda by Kirby and Stephens. He quotes (Ent. M. Mag. vi. p. 3) 
Fauvel’s opinion that this insect is amwna (Fairm.). 
SiiAiiP (Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1809, pts. ii. &iii. pp. 91-272) 
revises the British species of Ilomalota, 157 in number, of which 
30 are considered as previously undescribed, and about 17 are 
first recorded as British. He finds it impossible to adopt 
Thomson’s genera or divisions, and modifies Kraatz’s sections 
considerably, reducing them to eight, which he further subdi- 
vides into groups of species. 
The following observations are extracted from Sharp’s paper : — II. langitida 
(Scriba, 7iec Kr.) = msecta (Thoms.) ; II. velox (Ktz.) =ca7nb7'ica (Woll.) ; II. 
opacula (Thoms.) = (Ktz.),/or^e: II haluphila (Thoms.) = 
(Scriba) ; Scotch vars. of II. 7iitidida (Kr.) are named 7iitidiuscula ; II. Jlavipes 
(Thoms.) is named Ilalobi'ectha, adopting Thomson’s generic name for the 
