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This is the Grynochris orcgonensis of our list which has never 

 been described by Crotch. 



Lophocateres americanus Mots. 



The species of this genus are very small and closely related to 

 Ostoma subg. Grynocharis. 



NOTES ON SOME CHANGES IN THE LIST OF 

 COLEOPTERA. 



By Charles W. Leng. 



Staten Island, N. Y. 



A few happy days in September, 1918, were spent with Mr. Wm. 

 T. Davis in the U. S. National Museum, where Dr. E. A. Schwarz 

 and Mr. Herbert S. Barber very kindly examined the manuscript of 

 my List of Coleoptera and gave me the benefit of their fund of infor- 

 mation on some groups as they looked over the pages. These notes 

 result, and as much of the information is otherwise unpublished, they 

 are now printed with the permission of my informants. 



Other unpublished notes have also been received in correspondence 

 with Mr. J. M. Swaine and other friends and are likewise included. 



On November 24, Colonel Casey's Memoirs VIII was received 

 and several notes in the Carabidse result therefrom, since it is devoted 

 principally to that family. 



I have not adopted Colonel Casey's view that the genus Ptcro- 

 stichus of Bonelli does not occur in America. I am fully in accord 

 with the restriction of its meaning to the western forms he includes 

 under Hypherpcs Chd. ; but until a revision of the Pterostichini of 

 the world is made, it seems premature to announce (in substance) 

 such an important fact in distribution as is implied in asserting that 

 our species belong to dififerent genera than the Palaearctic species. 



Pterostichus agonns Horn, by the description, which mentions its 

 near relation to punctatissimus, evidently belongs in Lypcrophcrns 

 Mots, if punctatissimus does. 



It is unfortunate that Colonel Casey did not compare the species 

 described by Poppius, 1905 and 1907, in the genus Cryobius; there are 



