Mr. H. E. Andrewes on Oriental Carabide. 471 
Gen. i. p. 361) described as S. depressa, F., an Indian 
specimen which was in fact identical with Bonelli’s S. plana, 
and in the following year (Spec. Gen. ii. p.468) he described 
another species from the Mediterranean as S. europea. 
Chaudoir, in his Monograph on the genus (Bull. Mose. 
1876, i. p. 90), followed Dejean in identifying S. depressa, 
F., with S. plana, Bon., and he gives the habitat of S. europea, 
Dej., as extending from Senegal to Bengal. 
_ In 1887 Mr. Bedel (Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. p. 195) expressed 
the view that S. ewropea, Dej.=S. depressa, F. (not Dej., 
not Chaud.), and that the latter name should stand for the 
species, as in fact it does in his ‘Catalogue raisonné des 
Coléoptéres du Nord de l’Afrique, 1897, p. 108. There the 
matter rests at present, and Mr. Bedel would be quite right 
if the Mediterranean and Indian species were identical. 
1 have taken Indian specimens myself in considerable 
numbers, and have specimens or records from over thirty 
different localities all over India. I have also examined 
specimens from various countries bordering the Mediterranean 
and from Arabia. ‘The conclusion I arrive at is that the two 
species are distinct. Fabricius evidently had both before 
him when drawing up his description, and, as Dejean has 
since described one of them as S, europea, I think the Medi- 
terranean species should bear that name, the name S. depressa 
being reserved for the Indian one. 
S. depressa is on average wider than S. europea, joints 1 
and 2 of the antenne are rather more dilated and joint 1 is 
more rounded off at the apex, the strangulation of the neck 
is deeper, the ocular ridges are stronger and practically reach 
the hind margin of the eye (they stop at two-thirds diameter 
of eye in europea). Prothoracic furrows rather deeper, 
puncturation of disk much stronger, sides more rounded and 
more contracted in front. Hlytra rather more oval, less 
parallel, and a little more coarsely punctate; the smooth 
area along the raised suture much less evident, the pubescence 
rather longer and yellowerin colour. Underside more closely 
punctate. 
I wrote recently about the types to the University Museum 
of Copenhagen, and Dr. Lundbeck has very kindly examined 
the collection there and written me in reply. He tells ne 
that the handwriting of Fabricius is not to be found in the 
Lund and Sehestedt collections, and he believes the labels to 
have been written by Sehestedt. There should be examples 
of S. depressa from Mauretania (Schousboe) aud Inaia (Dal- 
dor), but ihe latter is not to be found. There are, however, 
two examples which have always been regarded as types, 
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