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V. A List of the Cicindelide, Carabide and Staphy- 
linidze collected by Mr. J. J. WALKER, R.N., F.LS., 
in the region of the Straits of Gibraltar, By GEORGE 
CHARLES CHAMPION, F.Z.S. 
[Read December 1st, 1897. ] 
In the Transactions of the Entomological Society for 1891, 
pp. 375—401, I gave a list of Heteromerous Coleoptera 
collected by Mr. Walker in the region of the Straits of 
Gibraltar. The present paper contains a list of the Cicin- 
delidze, Carabide, and Staphylinide, forming part of the 
same collection. It has been prepared with the assistance 
of M.M. Bedel and Fauvel, both of whom are engaged at 
the present time in the publication of a list of the N. 
African species of these families, M. Bedel with the 
Cicindelidz and Carabidz and M. Fauvel with the Staphy- 
Jinide. A considerable portion of their work (that of 
‘ M. Bedel having been commenced in March 1895, and 
that of M. Fauvel during the present year) has now been 
published. The chief object of this paper is to give a list 
of the species inhabiting the European side of the Straits, 
as well as of those found on the N. African side. At the 
end of the Carabide, a list of the N. African species not 
met with by Mr. Walker is inserted, compiled from M. 
Bedel’s Catalogue* as far as published, and from MS. 
notes kindly communicated by him. In this family a 
considerable number of species do not cross the Straits, 
some conspicuous forms being confined to the African side 
(e.g. Casnonia olivieri, &c.) and others (Carabus favieri, 
Acinopus giganteus, Percus politus, Aptinus displosor, &c.) 
to the Spanish side. Since the publication of the Anda- 
lusian lists of Rambur (1842), Rosenhauer (1856), Dieck 
(1870), v. Heyden (1870), &c., many additional species of 
Carabide have been detected in the country bordering the 
Straits of Gibraltar. My own researches in Andalusia 
* Catalogue Raisonné des Coléoptéres du Nord de VlAfrique 
(Maroc, Algérie, Tunisie et Tripolitaine), avec notes sur la Faune des 
Iles Canaries et de Madére. 
TRANS. ENT. SOC. LOND. 1898.—PARTI, (APRIL.) 5 
