﻿Types 
  of 
  Orietital 
  Carahidae. 
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  Epicosmus 
  for 
  P. 
  tomentosus, 
  by 
  which 
  we 
  must 
  under- 
  

   stand 
  Carabus 
  angulatus 
  Fab. 
  (1781). 
  I 
  need 
  not 
  go 
  any 
  

   further 
  than 
  this 
  with 
  the 
  various 
  genera 
  included 
  in 
  the 
  

   group. 
  

  

  With 
  this 
  material 
  to 
  work 
  on, 
  together 
  with 
  some 
  more 
  

   modern 
  genera, 
  Chaudoir 
  hit 
  upon 
  the 
  following 
  ingenious 
  

   expedient. 
  " 
  Pour 
  eviter 
  de 
  creer 
  des 
  noms 
  nouveaux, 
  

   j'ai 
  approprie 
  a 
  chacune 
  des 
  divisions 
  que 
  j'ai 
  introduites 
  

   dans 
  les 
  grands 
  Panagaeus 
  a 
  tarses 
  simples 
  un 
  de 
  ceux 
  

   qui 
  ont 
  deja 
  ete 
  proposes 
  " 
  (Mon. 
  p. 
  90). 
  Under 
  this 
  

   scheme 
  of 
  " 
  appropriation 
  " 
  Eudema 
  was 
  attached 
  to 
  

   angulatus 
  Fab. 
  (1781) 
  (under 
  the 
  guise 
  of 
  hifasciatus), 
  

   Craspedophorus 
  got 
  the 
  African 
  species 
  with 
  a 
  raised 
  

   thoracic 
  margin, 
  while 
  Epicosmus 
  (the 
  reference 
  to 
  which 
  

   is 
  misquoted 
  by 
  its 
  author) 
  got 
  the 
  Indian 
  and 
  African 
  

   species 
  with 
  narrower 
  thorax 
  and 
  without 
  raised 
  margin. 
  

   These 
  names 
  do 
  not 
  seem 
  to 
  me 
  to 
  indicate 
  more 
  than 
  

   divisions 
  of 
  one 
  genus, 
  which 
  should 
  bear 
  Hope's 
  name 
  of 
  

   Craspedophorus 
  . 
  

  

  Coming 
  now 
  to 
  the 
  species, 
  we 
  find 
  that 
  Fabricius 
  him- 
  

   self 
  made 
  an 
  unfortunate 
  blunder. 
  Carabus 
  reflexus 
  was 
  

   first 
  described 
  in 
  Spec. 
  Ins. 
  i, 
  1781, 
  303, 
  and 
  the 
  description 
  

   is 
  followed 
  by 
  the 
  words 
  " 
  Coromandel, 
  Mus. 
  Dom. 
  Banks." 
  

   This 
  is 
  repeated 
  in 
  Mant. 
  Ins. 
  i, 
  1787, 
  197, 
  and 
  Ent. 
  Syst. 
  

   i, 
  1792, 
  147. 
  In 
  Syst. 
  Eleuth. 
  i, 
  1801, 
  166, 
  the 
  species 
  is 
  

   put 
  under 
  the 
  genus 
  Cychrus, 
  and 
  followed 
  by 
  two 
  refer- 
  

   ences 
  : 
  (1) 
  Carabus 
  reflexus, 
  Ent. 
  Syst. 
  i, 
  1792, 
  147; 
  

   (2) 
  Pimeliafasciata, 
  Ent. 
  Syst. 
  i, 
  1792, 
  104. 
  We 
  then 
  read 
  

   with 
  surprise 
  : 
  " 
  Habitat 
  in 
  Germania, 
  Mus. 
  Dom. 
  Lund." 
  

   Fabricius, 
  as 
  we 
  learn 
  from 
  Hope 
  (Col. 
  Man. 
  ii, 
  1838, 
  165), 
  

   labelled 
  another 
  species 
  Carabus 
  reflexus; 
  Hope 
  proposed 
  

   the 
  name 
  of 
  Panagaeus 
  fabricii 
  for 
  this, 
  but 
  did 
  not 
  describe 
  

   it. 
  The 
  specimen 
  (which 
  belongs 
  to 
  Schaum's 
  species 
  Craspe- 
  

   dophorus 
  (Isotarsus) 
  mandarinus 
  , 
  Ann. 
  Soc. 
  Ent. 
  Fr. 
  1853, 
  

   436) 
  is 
  at 
  Oxford, 
  and 
  Mr. 
  Durrant 
  identifies 
  the 
  Fabrician 
  

   handwriting 
  on 
  the 
  label. 
  Fabricius 
  had 
  not 
  therefore 
  

   a 
  very 
  clear 
  picture 
  in 
  his 
  mind 
  of 
  his 
  own 
  species, 
  and 
  I 
  

   think 
  it 
  almost 
  certain 
  that 
  his 
  memory 
  was 
  at 
  fault 
  again 
  

   when 
  he 
  apparently 
  identified 
  a 
  specimen 
  in 
  the 
  Lund 
  

   Collection 
  as 
  his 
  own 
  C. 
  reflexus. 
  Illiger 
  (Mag. 
  fUr 
  Ins. 
  i, 
  

   1802, 
  345) 
  seems 
  first 
  to 
  have 
  drawn 
  attention 
  to 
  the 
  fact 
  

   that 
  " 
  Germania 
  " 
  was 
  an 
  obvious 
  mistake, 
  and 
  he 
  tells 
  

   us 
  also 
  that 
  the 
  specimen 
  of 
  C. 
  reflexus 
  in 
  the 
  Hellwig- 
  

   Hoffmannsegg 
  Collection 
  came 
  from 
  Sierra 
  Leone. 
  The 
  

  

  