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III. Notes on Synonymy and on some Types of Oriental 
Carabidae in various foreign collections. By H, E. 
ANDREWES. 
[Read February 2nd, 1921.] 
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In May 1920, thanks to the kindness of M. René Oberthiir, 
I had the opportunity of examining a considerable number 
of the types of Carabidae in his collection; this includes, 
beside other material, the collections formed by Dejean, 
Chaudoir, and H. W. Bates, the principal authors in the 
group. I have to thank M. Oberthiir—and I do so very 
cordially—not only for allowing me to examine his collec: 
tions, but also for the personal assistance he was kind 
enough to give me during my visit to him at Rennes. 
Some of the results of my examination are embodied in 
the following notes on synonymy, etc., and, as a further 
result, I am describing a few new species from among those 
which I found to have been misidentified. 
As I shall have to refer rather frequently to my paper 
published in these Transactions im 1919, I shall, to save 
space, merely give the date and the page. 
Calosoma scabripenne Chaud. (Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1869, 
371) = C. mdicum Hope (1919, 171). 
When my former paper appeared, I was unaware of 
Dr. Roeschke’s remarks on the genus Calosoma in Ento- 
mologische Nachrichten 1900. I see that he there treats 
C. scabripenne Chaud., as a variety of indicum, and both of 
these as races of C. maderae F. 
I also expressed the opinion (p. 202) that C. orientale 
Hope = C. squamigerum Chaud. Dr. Roeschke is of 
opinion that Hope’s species is identical with C. ambricatum 
Klug. I have in my collection some examples of this 
species from the Cape Verde Is., and there are others in 
the British Museum from the Persian Gulf, together with 
a solitary very dull specimen from Karachi. It is not 
unusual to find N.E. African species reappearing in Sind : 
Calosoma oliviert De}. occurs not only in Baluchistan, but 
as far up the Indus Valley as Peshawar. The species of 
Carabidae inhabiting the sandy tract stretching from 
Egypt to Sind are, however, quite unlikely to extend their 
habitat so far south, or so high up as Poona, and I cannot 
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