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rest on account of their thickened anterior femora, and the two spines at th c 

 tips of the anterior tibiae. 



Cypliogenius, Chaudoir (ib. p. 395), is certainly identical with Cratognathus, 

 Dej., as is Ci/pJi. pallipes, Chanel, (ib.), from the Cape, with Cr. mandibularis, 

 Dej. The Reporter (Arch. 1843, i, p. 205) has corrected the erroneous 

 habitat assigned to this species by Dcjean, and at the same time united the 

 genera Uticcpluilus, Lap., and Daptomorphits, Chaud., as well as Harp. xantJio- 

 i-Kpftiis, Wied., Dej., under Cratognatlms. 



Pteroglossm, Chaudoir (ib. p. 405), does not appear to me to differ from 

 Harpalus ; even the tongue, upon the supposed peculiarity of which the 

 author seems to lay stress, I have not found to be as described by him, but 

 to be similar to that of Harpalus, as for instance of H.ferrugineits. The so- 

 considered new species, PL suturaUs, from Kordofan, is nothing but Harp, 

 fulvns, Dej., which extends from Upper Egypt to Guinea. Since the genus 

 cannot stand it is needless to object to the name, which is so well known as 

 applied to a genus of birds. 



In the group of the Pterostichmi : 



Simodontiis, Chaudoir (Bull, Mos. p. 412). The tooth in the notch of the 

 meutum short, inflected, apparently cleft ; as it is in many of the Feroniae 

 of Dejcau, from which, in other respects, no sufficient distinction of this 

 genus can be made out, from the very ample description given of it. S. 

 aneipennis, from New Holland, held by the author, though doubtfully, to be 

 Fer. amtralis, Dej. 



Oxycrepis (Dej.), Reiche (Rev. Zool. p. 78), with flat three-lobed meutum. 

 The first three dilated joints of the anterior tarsi of the male dilated obliquely 

 on the inner side, and clothed beneath with lobed cushions and setre. 

 0. leucocera, from Columbia, has the eighth and ninth joint of the antenna? 

 white. 



Affciosoma, Menetries (Bull. Acad. Petersb. ii, p. 63), is identical with 

 Stenomorphus, Dej. 



Both the following genera are probably immediately connected with the 

 Pterostichini, without, however, exactly agreeing with that group. 



Lissopterus, Waterhouse (Ann. Nat. Hist, xi, p. 281), has somewhat the 

 form of the body of Omasews melanarius, but differs from the Pterostichmi 

 in this respect, that in the anterior tarsi of the male the four basal joints 

 are widely dilated. L. 4 twtatus, black, the elytra very indistinctly striated, 

 each with two minute red spots on the outer margin. From the Falkland 

 Islands. 



Axinidium, Sturm (Catal. 5, 51, tab. i, fig. 4) is a new genus, which, in 

 my opinion, should be placed next to Eripns, from which it differs chiefly in 

 the large hatchet-shaped terminal joint of the maxillary palpi, the double 

 notch also of the mentum, according to the figure, is deeper than in 



