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sense — n. nov. (nomen novum) would be preferable, but in any case I 

 contend that " n. s2j." is not applicable to such names. It might 

 perhaps be convenient to quote them as " Kearfott cor. Meyrick " duly 

 abbreviated. It is greatly to be hoped that at any future International 

 Congress some fair and clearly defined rule may be laid down by 

 which necessary corrections may be permitted without depriving the 

 original author of whatever value or credit may attach to the record of 

 his observations. If this is not done zoological nomenclature runs no 

 small risk of losing all semblance of classical construction, and of 

 being finally overwhelmed witli ridicule. 



Villa Sans Souci, Monte Carlo : 

 February 23rd, 1912. 



Chsetocnema conducta, Motsch., as a British insect. — In the March number 

 of the "Naturalist," pp. 82, 83, this quite unexpected addition to our list is 

 recorded by Mr. E. C. Horrell, on the authority of two specimens captured 

 by himself last May in Forge Valley, near Scarborough. The straw -yellow 

 elytra, with dark suture, margin, and shoiilder spot, distinguish it at once 

 from our other British species. C. depressa, Boield. {chrysicollis, Foudr.), is 

 an allied continental form, narrower in shape, with a uniformly punctured 

 head (C conducta having an impunctate space down the middle) and the dark 

 shoulder spot wanting. C. conducta has an extraordinarily wide distribution, 

 extending to Morocco, Algeria, &c. I met with it last June at Azazga, in 

 Kabylia, by sweeping Juncus and other plants in a nearly dried-up marsh, 

 and have specimens of it from Tangier, Salonica, Leghorn, and Perpignan. 

 It is apparently not foimd in the basin of the Seine, where it is represented by 

 the allied C. depressa. Mr. Horrell's drawing of the insect shows ten-jointed 

 antennae, which is of course incorrect. — G. C. Champion, Horsell, Woking: 

 March 7th, 1912. 



Note on Carabus hookeri, Nodier, a Scottish insect. — In the " Bulletin de la 

 Societe Entomologique de France," 1912, No. 3, pp. 80, 81, M. P. Lesne calls 

 attention to this species, described by Ch. Nodier, in a paper entitled " Promenade 

 de Dieppe aux Montagues d'Ecosse," Paris, 1821. M. Nodier visited the neigh- 

 bourhood of Ben Lomond in 1820, and collected insects there. The diagnosis is 

 as follows : " Carabus hookeri. Affinis certe C. auronitenti, sed duplo minor. 

 Apterus, elytris sulcatis viridibus, lineis elevatis externis apice tricrenatis. N." 

 As M. Lesne says, the insect is undoubtedly C. nitens, Linn. (1758). Carabus 

 hookeri, Nodier, seems to have completely escaped the notice of entomologists, 

 who will now have the pleasure of adding yet another synonym to a species of 

 this genus ! — G. C. Champion .- March, 1912. 



Note on Bledius terebrans, Schiodte. — This insect, recently introdiiced into the 

 British List, and for a specimen of which I am indebted to Dr. Joy, is identical 



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