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(Deg-.) 18 tho oldest name for the species ; X. cylindricns (Payk.) must bo de- 
posed in favour of cewginosns (01.), since Paykull’s insect is erroneously re- 
ferred to cylindricns (Rossi) ; Athons tihiellm (Chevr.) Corymhites nivicola 
(Kies.); Corymhites mneicollis (01., VJ{^2)—virens (Schr., 1781); C. kiesemcet- 
teri (Bxis.^^py venoms (Charp.) ; C. pyrenoms (Oej. nec Cliarp.)= mnplicollis 
(Germ.) ; C. profmjus (Fald.) is eight years prior to glohicoUis (Germ.), but 
alpestris (M^n.) is still older, and must stand for the species ; the insect 
known as C. holosericeus (01., Fab., &c.) is the true tesscllatus (Linn.), accord- 
ing to Schiddte, and the tessellatus of Fab. &c. (with the older nuhilus^ Schr., 
and the var. assimilis, Gyll.) must be referred to sjcdandicus, Mull., 1764 (see 
infrh) ; Agriotes incanus (Gyll.)= C. querens (Gyll.), sec. typ. ; Adt'astus pu~ 
sillus (¥\xh.)=limhatus (Fab.), sec. typ. ; Ectinns (Esch.)=^/ 7 r?o^e 5 (Escli.), 
and Pittonotus (Kies.) must be used for the genus ; Olivier’s ^-maculoim 
being a Enphemus, there is no need to alter the Fabrician species of the same 
name into hishimacidatns, as it is a Betarmon ; Campy lus (Fischer, 1823) 
^Lepturoides (Ilbst., 1784) ; Erapetes cquestris (Fab., V7Q^)=imordelloides 
(Host, 1789). 
Harold (1. c. p. 117 etseq.), correcting his own catalogue as regards the 
tcridfc, remarks as follows ; — Semiotus suturalis (01., Fab.) = angulatns 
(l)rnry) ; Elatcr planicapiUus (Drap.) is probably a Z)/c;'c/uV7m« ; Aeolus si- 
milis (Hbst., ISOCi) ==imifasciatiis (Fab., 1801); Elater coccincus (Schi6d.) = 
(Germ.) ; E. sangiiincus (^c\ii6d.) = lythrop)terus (Germ.); E.po- 
morum must stand, having been desciibed by Hellwig in 1795, long before 
ferrugatns (Lac.), which, with the prior Jlavatus (Schr.), must remain in the 
synonymy of that species ; Corymhites tessellatus (Linn.), according to 
Crotch, who refers to the type in Linn. Coll., is not holosericeus, but the spe- 
cies usually known by the former name : Harold, however, thinks tho de- 
scription the better authority. 
Harold (1. c. p. 126) has changed Melanotus pei'sicus (Fald.) to M. mutatus, 
the former specific name being preoccupied by Men^tri^s ; and, on account ■ 
of Candeze’s Athous montanus, alters Leconte’s species of that name to 
orophilus. 
Candeze (Coleopt. Hefte,v. p. 122) changes Anepsius (sibi) to Achrestus, 
on account of Leconte’s prior Anepsius ) he also alters Blax (sibi) to Meta- 
hlax, Thomson having already employed the former name in the Longicornia\ 
changes the specific name of his Cryptohypnus exilis into angularis, Mot- 
schoulsky having anticipated him in the former name ; and, on account of 
Cardiophorus signatus (01.), adopts stigmaticus for his own C. signatus. 
Letzner (45 Jahr. Schles. Ges. vat. Cult. pp. 142-6) gives lengthy dif- 
ferential characters for Cryptohyqmus tetragraphus (Germ.) and C. dermestoides 
(Hbst.). 
Elater sanguinolcnins is noticed as abundant under oak-bark, near Hdren- 
thals, by Weyers and van Volxem (Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg. xii. C. r. p. Ivii). 
»ScuDi)ER (Correspond, of T. W. Harris, pi. 4. figs. 1,2, 3) figures the larva 
of Elatcr oculatus (Hariis), with details, 
Grenier (Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 4® s^r. ix. Bull. p. xv) records Ectinns theseus 
(Germ.), taken by Abeille de Perrin in the Lower Alps; also other captures 
of rare Coleoptcra at Embrun. 
Reiche (Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 4® ser. ix. p. 379 et seq.) gives a list, with 
dates and localities, of the species of Athons described since the publication 
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