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more parallel elytra, and one series of punctures only on 

 each. The last species is both Dr. meridiorialis, Dej., and 

 Dr. angitstatus, Brulle (= testaceus, Er.) I formerly, 

 haying seen but a few French specimens of Drom. meridion- 

 alis, Dej., considered both as distinct, the German examples 

 of testaceus, Er., being of a narrower form, but a series 

 of English specimens communicated to me by Mr. Janson, 

 which are intermediate in form between the German tes- 

 taceus and the French meridionalis, have satisfied me of 

 their specific identity. 



Dyschirius impunctipennis. — To the synonyms of this 

 species is to be added Dysch. ihermis, Dawson. Mr. Daw- 

 son, by describing the type under the name of inermis, Curtis, 

 and a reddish variety under that of impunctipennis, led me, 

 but erroneously, to believe that it was really inermis of 

 Curtis, the type of which I had never seen. 



D yschirius elongatulus, Dawson, and D.jejunus, Dawson, 

 are both very suspicious to me; the latter I believe to be 

 angustatus, Ahrens, the former = politus, Dej. Mr. Dawson 

 has not pointed out the differences from these species ; in so 

 difficult a genus, where a species should never be established 

 on a single or two specimens, it is not sufficient to give a 

 description, however long it may be, but the differences from 

 the others should be pointed out. 



Notiophilus substriatus, Waterh. (punctulatus, Wesm.) — 

 I object to Mr. Waterhouse's name being preferred. Mr. 

 Waterhouse published his paper on Notiophilus when he was 

 very young, and now himself admits that, with one exception, 

 all his new species of Notiophilus (11 or 12) rest on imagi- 

 nary differences. In such a case the whole paper ought to 

 be consigned to oblivion, and the name of the single species, 

 which by chance happens to be really distinct, but which no 



