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et orsinii, differt tamen convexitate minore elytrorumque sculptura. Fein. 



minor magis attenuata opaca." From Mount Ararat, in Armenia. 3, Splio- 



drus armeniacm : " Apterus niger elougatus, capite la?vi occipite.bi-impresso, 



thorace oblongo subcordato lateribus inarginato in medio linea longitudinal! 



sulcato, elytris oblongis subovatis striatis striis vage puuctatis. Affinis 



Sphodro elougato." In moist woods of Armenia, not common. The two 



Carabi are also figured. 



Motschoulsky has given Carabus luxiiriosus, from Mount Taurus. 



(Guer. Mag. Zool'. Ins. pi. 151, fig. 3.) 



Kollar and Redtenbacher (Hiig. Kaschm. 498) have described, Ci/miii- 



dis ^-maculata (pi. 23, f. 3), Carabus caschmirensis (f. 4), CMcenius juntld- 



nus, Calathits angvstatm, Selenophorus qitadricollis, from Cashmere, and 



Feronia (Omasens) Mmalejica, from Massuri, in the Himalaya. 



Helluo (Acantliogenius) asteriscus, White (Ann. Nat. Hist, xiv, 422) is 



from Hong Kong. 



Reich e (Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. ii, 391, pi. 7, f. 6, 5, 4) has given three 



remarkable south African species, Graphipterus westicoodii, Antliia welly, and 



A. alveolate/, all from Christmas Bay. 



New American species are, Onypterygia tlioreyi, Mannerh. (Bull. Mosc. 



869 note) ; Morio lafertei and Calosoma peregrinator, Guerin (Rev. Zool. 



254), from Mexico; and Cordistes arcuatus and lafei-tei, Guer. (ibid. 9), 



from New Granada. 



The last-named author (Mag. Zool. Ins. pi. 140) has figured Spliallomorpha 



mt'ululoides, a remarkable species from New Holland. 



There remains to notice an article by Chaudoir (Bull. Mosc. 454.), 

 ' Observations sur quelques especes de Carabiques,' &c., which, besides the 



genera specified above, comprehends a variety of new species of other groups : 

 Uri/pta elonyata, from Senegal (a variety of Dr. dorsalis, Dej.) ; Galerita 



pallidieornis, Reiche, macrodera, (cquicollis, from Columbia ; Culleida licolor 

 and erythrodera, from Senegal; C. marginicollis, from the Cape; C.cj/nni- 



pennis, country not specified ; C. intemtpta and niffriceps, from Brazil ; C. 

 eleyans, Kl., from Cuba (distinguished from rubricollis, Dej.) ; Antliia 

 oxyyona, from the Cape ; Aristus punctulatus, from Syria. It is remarked 



that Cnlleida splendida, Gory, is auncollis, La])., and Cychrus inter- 



ruptus, Men., from California., the true rentricosus, Esch., while the species 

 to which the latter name is applied by Menetries is new, and here described 

 as C. striato-pimctatus, that Anchomenus valid/is, Lafert., belongs to the 

 genus Stenognatlms, Chaud., and Anch. micans, Men, to the genus Scciphio- 

 dactylus, Chaudoir. 



[Curtis (Royal Agric. Soc. Journ. v, 224) has communicated the obser- 

 vation that Fterostichus mi/iHtl/is is a great destroyer of wire worms, the 

 noxious larvae of the Elateridse.] 



