AMERICAN COLEOPTERA. 269 



Miscellaneous notes and short studies of North American 

 COLEOPTERA. 



BY GEORGE H. HORN, M. D. 



The following pages have been prepared with the view of placing 

 before the students of our fauna any points of material interest which 

 have been observed from time to time. These include synonymical notes, 

 short studies of various genera, and descriptions of some new species. 

 Synonyms are ascertained by the accumulation of specimens when the 

 types or their equivalents are at hand. When, however, types are in the 

 hands of distant authors an interchange of specimens establishes the fact 

 of identity, which should be made known by publication. Short studies are 

 either preliminary to monographic work or supplementary to it, and are, 

 in either case, useful in giving the newest ideas. The description of 

 isolated new species is probably the least useful of the parts of a paper' 

 of this kind, as but little is added to our knowledge beyond a new name, 

 and this, too often, a possible synonym. 



With these few words of explanation the following notes are pre- 

 sented : 



Amhlychila Piccolominii Reiche. 



A second and very careful examination of the type of this species in 

 the Museum of the Jardin des Plantes convinced me that the views, 

 already several times expressed, of its identity with cylindriformis Say, 

 are correct. It is certainly smaller than the specimens taken in Kansas 

 and at the same time smoother, corresponding very closely in these re- 

 spects with specimens taken in New Mexico and Eastern Arizona, which 

 are in the cabinets of Dr. LeConte and Mr. Ulke respectively. The 

 locality in which the Reiche specimen was collected was said to be Cali- 

 fornia, but I have endeavored to show from collateral evidence .that the 

 specimens distributed by Dupont from the same series were collected, in 

 all probability, in Texas (vide Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. X. Bull. p. iv). 



Cicindela IVIag<lalenne Lee, Proc. Acad. 1873, p. 321. 



At the time of the preparation of the " Index to the species described 

 by Dr. LeConte," I caused to be inserted on my own responsibility that 

 the species was probably South African in origin, my reasons being that 

 the type of markings and the whole facies of the species were widely 

 different from any in our fauna, and decidedly like the South African 

 forms of which I had seen a number in the cabinet of Mr. F. Gr. Schaupp. 



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