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tlieiii in tlie Castelnau collection are actually Heer's type:-;, in the 

 modern and the only correct sense of the word type. 



The series of ISwiss things reuionnted by Custelnau and labelled 

 by hiui are, however, far from being only the species that lleer speci- 

 ally assigned to Chevrier. The series includes, in fact, neai-ly a full 

 set of the new species described by lleer, and, moreover, is confined 

 to Heer's new species. Whether the specimens of the non-Chevrieriau 

 species were obtained by Chevrier from Heer, t)r whether they were 

 named by lleer, or whether Chevrier named them himself, 1 have not 

 the slightest idea. It is doubtful whether any one can give further 

 information on this subject, but perhaps some one can tell us what 

 cauie to Heer's own collection of Coleoptera. 



I have previously stated that Castelnau remounted these speci- 

 mens, and I regret that I must add that he did so very badly indeed, 

 and that as a consequence it is necessary to again relax them and 

 take them off the cards before they can be, in many cases, satisfactorily 

 determined. This I have done in the ease of a number of the species, 

 and have labelled them " supposed types of Heer's ." 



The families of Castelnau's collections purchased by me were 

 Stnphijlinidce, Hydropliilidce, Hcteroceridcc and Georyssidce. The 

 Carabidce and Dj/tiscidcB were purchased by Mr. Edwin Brown ; the 

 DytiscidcB being subsequently acquired from him by me, and the 

 C'a;v/i?Y/(f; being dispersed at the sale of Mr. Brown's collections. The 

 FseJapliidce were, I believe, acquired by M. liq,fEray (through Schau- 

 fuss?), and the LamcUicomia by M. van Lansberg. Many of Heer's 

 species have been determined from the descriptions to be only syno- 

 nyms for previously known species. Most of the published determi- 

 nations of this kind are, according to these " supposed types," 

 correct, and this, of course, adds to the probability that the " supposed 

 types," are the real types. 



Caiubi'idgc : January Wth, 1901. 



SOME CRITICAL REMARKS ON VARIOUS SPECIES OF BMUCHU^. 

 BY G. C. CHAMPION, F.Z.S. 



B. lutelcornis, 111. (1794), is the male of B. rujipes, Herbst 

 (1783) (= nubiJus, Boh.), and lUiger's name must be sunk as a 

 synonym. The colour of the antennjc and of the anterior and inter- 

 mediate legs in this insect is very variable, but the females always 

 have at least the six outer antennal joints black, and the males usually 

 bave the antennaa entirely rufo-testaceous. In both sexes the four 



