WCP2160

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[Seal of the Royal Geographical Society]

1. Savile Row,

Barlington Gardens,

W.

London

1 Nov^r. 1879

Dear Mr Wallace

Having an accidental lull last night, I set to work & put together a list of all the British Coleoptera that occur to me as not known on the Continent, & I now enclose it.

I have marked & [2] annotated some few of the species as a guide to any deductions you may think fit to make.

Many of those not marked with an asterisk are "splits", critically separated from known species occurring on the continent, & [3] which I cannot but believe are also existent there.

Sharp's¹ Hydropori & Homalotas (& they are many) have I feel sure (at least as to some of them) been recorded or recognised: you had better write to him (D^r Sharp, Eccles, [4] Thornhill Dumfries-shire) upon them — I think there was a list in Berliner Entom. Zeitschr. a few years ago recording many of them as a matter of personal opinion I should think

Apion Ryei, from Shetland –

Psylliodes Luridipennis — } Lundy Island

& Ceushonhynchus [sic] contractus var. pallipes } Lundy Island

Trogophlaeus spinicollis, Mersey estuary

Homalium rugulipenne — Scotch & Welsh comm

Anthicus scoticus, Loch Leven

Agathidium Rhinocerus Perthshire

Anisotoma Lunicollis

Cathormiocerus maritimus

Liosoma troglodytes

Bythinus glabratus

Scopoeus Ryei

Oxypoda rupicola

as perhaps the most likely not to be on continent, as they are so marked or have received so much scrutiny

Yours sincerely | E C Rye² [signature]