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1 he most interesting new discoveries ; the name has already been employed by 

 Sturm : the other, C. 8 pundata, from the island of Rhodes, does not appear 

 to me to differ from C. Fischeri, Ad. Besides these the author notices some 

 beautiful varieties of C. Itttoralis, and C. campestris. Gebler's (Bull. Acad. 

 Petersb. i, 30, 1) Cicindela granulata, from the valleys of the Alatau Moun- 

 tains, resembles C. sylvatica ; it is dull black, the elytra finely granulated, 

 a punctum on the shoulder, an oblique transverse spot broader on the external 

 side in the middle, and a posterior white puuctum. 



From California, Meuetries (Bull. Acad. Petersb. ii, p. 52) has obtained 

 Cicindela 12 guttata, and a new species, C. calif or nica. 



Chaudoir has described, as new species (Bull. Mosc. p. 67-t) : Aptema den- 

 ticottis, from Kordofan ; Megacephala hdipennis, from Brazil ? M. l&rigata, 

 probably the same as M. chilensis, Lap. ; OdontocJieiht distinguenda, cognata, 

 spinipeunis, from Cayenne; Cicindela i,iii-innJ,/, from Brazil, linearis, from 

 Madagascar, assimilis, said to be from Egypt (??) Reichei, apicalis, from 

 Mexico, longicollis, from Senegal, Madagascariensis, from Madagascar, rec- 

 tilatera, from Mexico, oculata, from Madagascar ; Colliitris filiformis, from 

 Java. 



CARABICI. This family has been enriched with a con- 

 siderable number of new genera., principally by Chaudoir. 

 (Genres nouveaux de la Fam. de Carabiques, cont. Bull. d. 1. 

 Soc. Imp. des Nat. de Moscoiv, 1843, p. 383.) For the sake 

 of more easy reference I subjoin them in a systematic 

 series. 



Aplothorax, Waterhouse, already noticed (vid. Report for 1841, p. 205), 

 now more particularly described and figured (Trans. Eut. Soc. Lond, iii, p. 

 267, pi. 12, fig. 1), is here more correctly viewed as a subgenus of Carafais, 

 from which it differs chiefly in the form of the prothorax, without a reflected 

 border. The anterior tarsi are slightly dilated, the first four joints clothed with 

 felted down beneath. A. Btfrchellu, of the size of Procrust. coriaceus, is indi- 

 genous in St. Helena. 



Disphericus (more correctly Displuericus), Waterhouse, also noticed already 

 (vid. ib.), and that as a genus allied to Cychrus, is now (Trans. Ent. Soc. 

 Loud, iii, p. 210, pi. 12, fig. 2) more particularly described and figured, and 

 proves to be a genus allied to Tefflus and Panagaus. The terminal joints in 

 each pair of palpi hatchet-shaped. The mentum anteriorly emarginate. The 

 prothorax nearly globose. The anterior femora somewhat thickened. The 

 anterior tarsi, in the male, slightly dilated. The Beetle most nearly resembles 

 a Eurysoma, but the prothorax presents no trace of angles, and is more 

 insulated. D. gambianus, shining black, with deeply punctate-striated elytra ; 

 from the Gambia. 



