300 Mr. T. Vernon Wollaston on 
I have myself captured it in six of them), has been 
reported by Mr. Crotch from the Azores—where it 
appears also to be well-nigh universal; so that its total 
absence from the Madeiran Group is even still more 
remarkable. It seems to be cited in Dejean’s Catalogue 
under the title of Hmus morosus, with the habitat ‘‘ Tene- 
riffe ;”” and therefore the two following references may 
be added to its synonymy as given in the ‘ Coleoptera 
Atlantidum.’ 
Emus morosus, Dej., Cat. édit. 3, 68 (1837). Ocypus 
vlens, Crotch, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 383 (1867). 
(Sp. 1846) Ocypus curtipennis. 
It appears from Harold’s recent Catalogue that an 
Ocypus was published by Motschoulsky (Bull. Mosc. m. 
87) under the title of curtipennis in 1849, so that the 
present Canarian species will require a fresh name. And 
therefore as the Baron has himself proposed that of 
canariensis, I may cite the corrected synonymy as 
follows :— 
Ocypus canariensis. 
Ocypus curtipennis, Woll. [nec Mots. 1849]; Cat. Can. 
Col. 567 (1864); Id., Col. Atl. 488 (1865). Ocypus 
canariensis, Har., Cat. 581 (1868). 
Hab.—Canariensis (Can.); in sylvaticis subsylvati- 
cisque intermediis, minus frequens. 
(Sp. 1348) Ocypus atratus. 
It is far from impossible that M. Fauvel’s identification 
of this Lanzarotan and Fuerteventuran Ocypus, with the 
common Huropean O. ater (vide [7 Abeille, vi. 151), may 
be correct; nevertheless since it certainly possesses a 
few minute distinctions of its own I will not absolutely 
suppress it as a species, seeing that it has already been 
established,—though I am quite willing to admit that its 
small differential characters (such as they are) may 
perhaps be merely indicative of a slight geographical 
variety, or race, of the ordinary northern type ; and the 
more so, since an accurate re-comparison of its man- 
dibles has led me-to believe that I was mistaken in 
