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but it belongs to the group of Amarae proper with the terminal spur of the 

 fore shank three-pronged ; Harpalus mauritanicus, from the province of Con- 

 stant iua ; Bembidiiim (Tacliys) guerinii, from the Department of Aveyron. 



A number of new species from southern Russia and the north of Asia 

 have been made known by Fischer v. W. and Chaudoir. The former, in 

 his ' Spicilegium Entomographise Rossicaj' (Bull. Mosc. ii, 135), describes of 

 Carabus, 16 species ; Nebrirt, 3 ; Chleetwus, 2 ; Pristonychus, 1 ; Acinopus, 

 3. Chaudoir (Suppl. a la Faune Eutom. de la Russie, &c., Bull. Mosc. 435) 

 has described the following species : Cymindis crenata, from Abassia ; Lebia 

 femoralis, from the Crimea (not satisfactorily separated from L. cyanocephala, 

 on the inspection of a single specimen) ; Mono colchidicus, from Abassia ; 

 Carabus granosus, from some part of Siberia ; Blethisa aurata, Esch. ; 

 Notiophilus riifipes, from Abassia ; Budister xanthomus, from Kiew (according 

 to the author's own account, the form of D. humeralis, mentioned by Erich- 

 son, with a larger head, considered here as distinct on account of inter- 

 mediate varieties not occurring, but their being found associated favours the 

 opinion of their identity) ; Patrobus lapponicm, assimilis, from Petersburg, 

 separated respectively from P. septeutrionis and rufipes on the inspection 

 of a single specimen of each ; Feroida (Agonodemus) elegant ula, and F. 

 (Glyptopterus) lacunosa, both from Trcbizond ; Pelor tauricus, from the Cri- 

 mea ; Amara nigrita, from Irkutsk ; A. assimilis, from Kiew ; Brady tits 

 brevipennis, cordicollis, microderus, loiigipennis, all from the Altai mountains ; 

 Harpalus rotiindattts, cyclogonus, violaceus, from Siberia; H. ovatm, bungii, 

 from the Altai ; Trechus latipennis, from Trebizoud; Bembidium (Peryphus) 

 nordmanni, B. (Leja) bisulcata, from Kiew. 



Chaudoir has also (ib. 415) published additions and corrections to the 

 catalogue of Carabici collected near Asterabad, in the province of Mazau- 

 deran, by M. de Kareliue. A great part of these corrections were commu- 

 nicated to the author by Maunerheim, who has introduced a number of new 

 species : Odacantha puncticollis, M., Brachinus subnotatits, Ch., Callistus 

 gratiosus, M., Chhenius latithorax, M., angusticollis, M., Epomis karelinii, 

 M., Agomim longipentie, M., Zabrus OKipennis, Ch., propinquus, Ch., victims, 

 M., Stenolophtts persicus (Dej.), M., Peryphus astrabadetisis, M. 



Osculati (Coleopteri raccolti uella Persia, &c., p. 72) has characterized the 

 following as new : 



Carabus oscuhiti, Villa : " Oblongo-ovatus subdepressus niger, thorace 

 subquadrato brevi niargine rotundato, elytris granulis pluribus oblongis 

 elevatis insequalibus per seriem dispositis. Affiuis. C. kruberi." From the 

 west of Persia ; (perhaps the same as C. paphius, Redt.) 2, C. orieiifalis : 

 " Oblongo-ovatus subdepressus niger, thorace quadrate rugoso, elytris foveis 

 excavatis per series dispositis, tres quarum foveis crassis, quarta marginalis 

 brevior foveolis mediocribus primis et ultimis obsoletis. Affiiiis C. cribrato 



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