IV MISCELLANEOUS NOTES AND CORRECTIONS 



CARABID/E 



The Selenophorus mustus, described by me as new, from Biscayne 

 Bay, Florida (Mem. Col. V, 1914, p. 152), is evidently the same as 

 excisus Lee., which is a valid species and not a synonym offatuus as 

 maintained by Leng (Bull. Am. Mus., XXXIV, p. 597). S. blan- 

 chardi Manee, is not closely allied to excisus, but differs in its still 

 shorter and relatively broader prothorax, smaller head and more 

 obscure bronzy lustre, that of excisus being rather brilliantly sub- 

 aeneous; as in excisus, the body is much less elongate than infatuus. 



Celiamorphus opaculus Csy. (1. c., p. 143), has proved to be 

 abundant at Southern Pines, North Carolina a region peculiarly 

 rich in the Selenophorids; it is the largest species of the genus, 

 notably elongate, with the head somewhat variable in relative 

 size but on the whole larger than in any other, and with the man- 

 dibles wholly black as a rule. In elliptic us the body is notably 

 smaller, and the mandibles are pale testaceous, black at tip and at 

 the outer edge basally. My series of opaculus consists of twenty 

 individuals, that of elUpticiis also of the same number, so that thoir 

 divergences can be easily compared. Cnrrens resembles ellipticus 

 somewhat but is narrower, the prothorax more narrowed and more 

 deeply sinuate at apex and the eyes notably larger. Of contractus 

 Csy., a small species with shorter prothorax, Mr. Manee has re- 

 cently sent me two additional examples; it is a rather isolated form 

 and is not closely allied to any other. 



Mr. Loding has very kindly sent me three examples of Aniso- 

 dactylus lodingi Schf. It is very much larger than any other spe- 

 cies and differs conspicuously in habitus, because of its very large 

 head, notably larger in the female than in the male, with feebly 

 convex eyes and long and less constricted neck. The anterior tarsi 

 of the male are very broadly dilated, with extremely transverse 

 joints. The discal puncture of the elytra, at the outer side of the 

 second stria near four-sevenths, is as distinct as in any other species, 

 and I am therefore at a loss to undertand the apparent oversight 



