122 COLEOPTERA. 



the second and third and the third and fourth striae are dis- 

 tinctly wider than those comprised between the striae beyond 

 them ; the sculpture throughout is much finer, and the colour 

 invariably more brassy, than in biguttatus. 



On referring to M. Wesmael's description, /. c, and com- 

 paring it with that of Mr. Waterhouse above cited, I find 

 that the diagnostics (the fine sculpture and the inequality 01 

 the spaces between the dorsal striae of the elytra) are the 

 same in both; there is therefore no plea for adopting the 

 name proposed by M. Wesmael in preference to that im- 

 posed by Mr. Waterhouse, and which is two years anterior 

 in date of publication. 



It is much to be regretted that Mr. Waterhouse, in his 

 recently published Catalogue, has not given us a full resume 

 of the synonymy of the British Notiophili ; a statement at his 

 own hands of the views he now entertains would have set 

 the matter at rest for ever, whereas the fact that he does not 

 coincide in the conclusions arrived at in respect to them by 

 Mr. Dawson, and that he cites four only of the eighteen 

 species given in his a Monographia Notiophilon Anglice" 

 as synonymous with the recognized British species, admits 

 of the inference that he considers the remaining fourteen 

 distinct. 



N. substn'atus appears to be very generally distributed 

 throughout the southern portion of our island ; I have met 

 with it in single specimens at various points of the London 

 district, more frequently in the vicinity of Croydon than 

 elsewhere. 



2. Harpalus servus, Dufts. ; E. W. Janson, Proc. Ent. 

 Soc. 5 April, 1858, Zool. 6072 (1858). 

 Carabus servus, Dufts. Faun. Austr. ii. 101, 97 (1812). 

 Harpalus servus, Gyll. Ins. Suec. iv. 437 (1827) ; 



