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[Seal of the Royal Geographical Society]

1. Savile Row,

Barlington Gardens,

W.

London

1 Nov[embe]^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[ologische]. Zeitschr[ift]. 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 [1 word illeg.]

Anthicus Scoticus, Loch Seven

Agathidium Rhinocerus Perthshire

Anisotoma Lunicollis

Cathormiocerus maritimus

Liosoma troglodytes

Bythinus glabratus

Scopoeus Ryei

Oxypoda rupicola

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

Yours sincerely | E C Rye² [signature]