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Sclcnophorus cvcisus Lee, 1878, is said by Horn. 1880. and in Mr. 

 Henshaw's Bibliography of Leconte's writings to be a preoccupied 

 name. If this is so and Casey's paragraph (p. 413, Mem., VIII) is 

 correct, we must cite S. mustus Csy. as the species. 



The varieties of Scaphinotns andrewsi and guyoti described by 

 Mr. Beutenmnllcr (Bull. Br. Ent. Soc, 1918, p. 89) do not profess 

 to be more than color forms, and should be treated as such. 



Elaphnis politiis Casey, 1897, is preoccupied by E. politus Le- 

 conte, 1850 (a synonym of E. dairvillci Kirby), and may be changed 

 to cascyi n.m. 



Galcrita thoracica Casey, 1897, is preoccupied by G. thoracica 

 Chev. (Col. Mex. Cent., I, fasc. 2, No. 34) and may be changed to 

 cascyi n.m. 



PlatyuHS dcplanatus Alen., 1844, is preoccupied by P. dcplanatus 

 Chaud., 1843 (a synonym of ciiicticollis) , and may be called P. fal- 

 lianus n.m. 



T achy pus Lacordaire, 1854, is preoccupied by T achy pus Weber, 

 1801, a synonym of Carabus. Redtenbacher credits Tachypus to 

 Megerle, as a synonym of Bcmbidium. Casey credits it to Dejean, 

 but that author cites Weber's use of the name. I have followed 

 Gozis in regarding the name as preoccupied and replaced by Asaphi- 

 dioii Gozis. 



In the Carabidc-e of Florida the reference to a Carabid beetle feed- 

 ing on Metachronia larvae on leaves is erroneous because all Mcta- 

 chroma larvae live under ground, as I am told by Dr. Schwarz. 



The genus Omophron should be placed, as indicated by Lameere, 

 between Carabidae and Haliplidae, and treated as a family. 



Pseudaptinus Castelnau, 1835, must be used in place of Diaphorus 

 Dejean, 1831, because the latter name was first used by Meigen in 

 1824. See Maindron, Bull. Soc. Ent. Fr., 1906, p. 252. 



Agahns scmivittatus occurs in Florida. The mention of St. John's 

 Bluff, East Florida, by Dr. Sharp was overlooked in preparing the 

 '■ Water-beetles of Florida." 



Sphccritcs should be removed from Silphidse, as indicated by Gangl- 

 bauer and other authors, to form a family near Histerida;. 



Brathiniis should be removed from Scydmsenidse. Colonel Casey 

 thinks it should form a genus of Staphylinidae near Lcstcva on ac- 

 count of ocelli, but the entire elytra appear to forbid this course. It 

 seems best placed as a family in Staphylinoidea. 



