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^LeCollte^" Vr. 1873, ?,2-2\ LeConte Cat.; Heyden, 8: Motseli., 95: 

 Col. Am., 99. Nikolajevsk. Heyden, 1885. Dr. LeConte united Tatnmi 

 to Mseander AhfiY an e.\aniiiiation of examples in European collections 

 (1. c. 322). but Dr. L V. Heyden considers it, as well as incompletus Fiscli. 

 and hudsonk-us Mots., truespecies, giving the following resume in Deutscli. 

 Ent. Zeit. xxiii. 1879, Heft i, 166 : 



1. C. Msenander Fisch. 1820 {xneus, nitidus). — Siberia, Hudson Bay, var. 



mseander Dej. 1826, 1829 {cupro-xiieus, obscurior). Siberia (Nertschinsk), 

 Hudson Bay; var. Lnpilayi Laj). 1835, Nova Scotia; var. Himoni Heydea 

 [1879]. (viridi-prasinns), Hudson Bay. 



2. C. incompletus Fisch. 182S, palnntris Dej. 1829, Erenhergi Fisch. 1829. — 



Katntschatka. 



4. C. truncaticollis Esch.? Chaudoin %i\\\\h. '! tristis Mots. —Occurs in Alaska 



cu the Yukon, and lias been taken in the higher parts of the Sierra 

 Nevada, California. Eight e.xainples were taken by the Vega Expedi- 

 tion on the Asiatic side of Behring Strait, representing seven varieties; 

 it extends over Arctic Siberia from Kamtschatka to Obsdorsk on the 

 Gulf of Obi, aiid to the northern Ural Mountains. Island of St. Paul, 

 Alaska. Fletcher's and my collection. ? Europe. Vega Exp., 12; 

 Heyden, (i; T. ix, 31 ; Ulke's collection. 



5. C granulatus Dej.— Several examples were taken near the Bay of Fundy : 



Harrington, Can. Ent. xxiv, 112. The identification is correct. It is 

 distributed throughout western Siberia to Turkestan, with several local 

 varieties. — Northern and Central Europe to Caucasia, in ten varieties. 



6. Hummeli Fisch. var. Burnaschevi Dej., var. ohversns Mots., var. Middendorfi 



Men., var. smaragdidns J Kraatz, not Mann., var. ochoticus Mann., var. 

 tristiculus Kraatz {GaschkevitschiX Mor., not Mann.). — The varieties seem 

 to be founded on color variation or small differences in elytral sculpture : 

 obversus, from Nertschinsk, is said by Mots. (Ins. Sib. 103) to be an elon- 

 gated form having a certain resemblp^nce to Vietinghovi. From the 

 Ural to Kamtschatka (Obdorsk, Nertschinsk, lakutsk, island of Schautar, 

 Port Ayan (Am.), Dauria, the Amur, the Syfun, island of Askold, etc.). 

 The variety ochoticus occurs in Alaska, whence there are examples from 

 Schaum. in Mr. Ulke's collection. Heyden, 10; Heyden, 1884. 



7. C. nemoralis Mull., hortensis Panz. nou Linn. — This beautiful species, as 



well as granulatus, has probably become Americanized. An American 

 exampJe was seen by Dr. Horn in the collection of Mr. A. Murray. Lon- 

 don, and many were taken recently near St. Johns, New Bi'unswick. 

 T. V. 126, Ent. News iii, 60, Can. Ent. xxiv, 112.— Northern and central 

 Europe, in several varieties. 



8. Elaphrus riparius Linn., interynedins Kirb., californicus Mann., punctatis- 



s'nnus Lee, sinuatus, similis Lee, var. gratiosns Mann. — A species some- 

 what variable and widely distributed, extending from New Mexico 

 through the Eocky Mountains to California and Alaska, and eastward 

 to Michigan, Canada, Vermont and Hudson Bay. It is general in Eu- 

 rope, and in Asia from the Crimea, Turkestan, Dauria and Amur country 

 northward through Siberia. Mots., 72; Col. Am., 88; Solsky, 233; Hey- 

 den, 4; Cbaud.. 217. 



9. E. lapponicus Gyll., Ins. Suec. ii, 8. —In Kirby's collection in the British 



Museum an example of this species was seen by Dr. LeConte labeled) 



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