Se CRT Ne en eee Leth ee Nae 
a 
160 Mr. H. E. Andrewes’ Notes on Synonymy 
with an assumed typical specimen of Fabricius’ species in 
the Berlin Museum, was due to Gerstaecker, and the 
question is left an open one. I find that the two species 
are in fact identical. A full description, along with the 
synonymy, will be found in Chaudoir’s Monograph. It is 
a common insect throughout India and Ceylon, but does 
not apparently occur elsewhere, though there are two 
examples labelled China in the British Museum. The 
Zanzibar insect probably belongs to an allied species. 
33. Platymetopus (Carabus) flavilabris, p. 59. (Daldorff.) 
Type at Copenhagen. 
Schaum indicated the genus, but no one seems to have 
ventured on identifying the species. For years past I 
have endeavoured to persuade myself that the various 
described species in this genus were really distinct, and I 
myself (1919, 151) gave a detailed description of P. punctu- 
latus Macl., comparing it with P. senilis Nietn. 
I have seen in various collections a very large number 
of examples from India, Ceylon, Burma, Java, Sumatra, 
Siam, Indo-China, 8. China, and Japan. I note con- 
siderable variation in specimens from the same locality, 
chiefly in the size, colour of the legs, amount of puncturation 
on the prothorax, and the extent to which the odd intervals 
of the elytra are raised. The conclusion is forced upon 
me that the following all belong to the same species : 
flavilabris F., thunbergc Quens., punctulatus Macl., senilis 
Nietn., corrosus Bates, and punctulicollis Bates. I have 
seen all the types, with the single exception of P. senilis. 
The species should be known as P. flavilabris F. The 
type has flavous legs (as in senzlis), the head is very wide 
and minutely punctate, the prothorax only strongly punctate 
in the basal foveae and marginal channels, which are 
faintly blue in front, elytral intervals all flat. 
34. Barysomus (Carabus) semivittatus, p. 59. (Daldorff.) 
Type at Copenhagen. 
Redescribed by Dejean (Spec. Gen. iv, 1829, 60). Nietner 
also described the species under the name of Oosoma 
gerstaeckert (Journ. As. Soc. Beng. 1857, ui, 147; id. 
Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (2), xx, 1857, 370). It is recorded 
from India, Ceylon, Indo-China, and Hong-Kong, but does 
not appear to be common in any of these localities. 
35, Stenolophus (Carabus) smaragdulus, p. 60. (Daldorff.) 
Type at Copenhagen (1919, 178 and 189). 
Both Schaum and Erichson (Kaf. Mark Brand. i, 1837, 
