﻿AmerigAna 



VOL. 'VI. 



BROOKLYN, MARCH, 1890. 



No. 3. 



Proposed Corrections of Specific Names to Harmonize Mr. 

 Henshaw's Catalogue of the North American Cole- 

 optera, with the generally accepted Euro- 

 pean nomenclature, with relation to 

 the species common to the 

 t\vo continents. 



BY JOHN HAMILTON, M. D., 

 Allegheny, Pa. 



The Roman type indicates the proposed name; Italics, the name 

 now in Henshaw's Catalogue and Supplements (sometimes that in 

 the European). Small Caps indicate a species represented only by 

 a variety of the European form. 



Dyschirius aeneus Dej. 



frigidus Mann. 



integer, dentiger Lee. 

 Clivina fossor Li7i7i. 



collaris % Lee. 

 Bembidium littorale Oliv. (1791). 



paludosuni % Catalog. 

 B. ustulatum Linn. 



rupestre % Catalog. 

 B. grapei Gyll. 

 B. flammulatum Clairv. 



undiilatum Sturm. 

 Amara apricaria Payk. 

 A. erratiea Duft. 

 Platypus obscurus Herbst. 



oblongics Fab. , pusillns Lee. 

 P. bogemanui Gyll. 



obsolctus Say. 



Entomologica Americana. Vol. VI. 4 



P. iMPRESSus Panz. 



var. splendidulus JMots. 

 Bradycellus cognatus Payk. 

 Hydrovatus pustulatus Mels. 



ciispidatus % Catalog. 

 Ccelambus inaequalis Fab. 



punctatus Say. 

 Deronectes brevis Sturm. 



depresses % Catalog. 

 Hydroporus s.\nm.\rki Sahib. 



var. rivalis Gyll. 

 Agabus congener Thnnb. 



ambiguus Say. 

 A. dissimilis Sahib. 

 A. confinis Gyll. 



ovoideus Lee. 

 A. eriehsoni Gem. and H. 



nigroceneus Er. 



March, 1890. 



