﻿Types 
  of 
  Oriental 
  Carabidae. 
  165 
  

  

  duced 
  by 
  Macleay 
  as 
  being 
  identical 
  with 
  Carabus 
  splen- 
  

   didiilus 
  F., 
  but 
  they 
  are 
  in 
  fact 
  the 
  same, 
  and 
  it 
  seems 
  to 
  

   be 
  only 
  a 
  coincidence 
  that 
  Macleay 
  gave 
  his 
  specimen 
  

   the 
  name 
  already 
  employed 
  by 
  Fabricius. 
  Macleay 
  sup- 
  

   posed 
  that 
  his 
  species 
  was 
  closely 
  aUied 
  to 
  Wiedemann's 
  

   Lebia 
  marginalis 
  (Zool. 
  Mag. 
  ii, 
  1, 
  1823, 
  60), 
  for 
  which 
  a 
  

   new 
  genus 
  Promecoptera 
  was 
  proposed 
  by 
  Dejean 
  (Spec. 
  

   Gen. 
  V, 
  1831, 
  443). 
  I 
  have 
  not 
  at 
  present 
  been 
  able 
  to 
  

   identify 
  Wiedemann's 
  species, 
  but 
  it 
  cannot 
  be 
  very 
  closely 
  

   connected 
  with 
  Macleay's, 
  which 
  has 
  pectinate 
  claws 
  and 
  

   a 
  cleft 
  fourth 
  tarsal 
  joint 
  — 
  characters 
  which 
  are 
  not 
  

   presented 
  by 
  Promecoptera 
  marginalis. 
  

  

  The 
  following 
  references 
  seem 
  worth 
  noting 
  down 
  : 
  Fab., 
  

   Syst. 
  Eleuth. 
  i, 
  1801, 
  184: 
  Dej., 
  Spec. 
  Gen. 
  v, 
  1831, 
  341; 
  

   Schm.-Goeb., 
  Faun. 
  Col, 
  Birm. 
  1846, 
  32; 
  Motch., 
  Et. 
  Ent. 
  

   1855, 
  51 
  ; 
  Chaud., 
  " 
  Monographic 
  des 
  Callidides." 
  Ann. 
  

   Soc. 
  Ent. 
  Belg. 
  xv, 
  1872, 
  113; 
  Bates, 
  Ann. 
  Soc. 
  Ent. 
  Fr. 
  

   1889, 
  283; 
  id. 
  Ann. 
  Soc. 
  Ent. 
  Belg. 
  1892, 
  233; 
  Lesne, 
  

   Miss. 
  Pavie 
  1904, 
  Col. 
  81 
  ; 
  Maindron, 
  Ann. 
  Soc. 
  Ent. 
  Fr. 
  

   1905, 
  334. 
  

  

  The 
  species 
  has 
  a 
  wide 
  distribution 
  throughout 
  the 
  Indo- 
  

   Malay 
  region, 
  including 
  South 
  China, 
  Indo-China, 
  and 
  the 
  

   Philippine 
  Is. 
  

  

  36. 
  Orthogonius 
  picilabris. 
  This 
  genus, 
  named 
  by 
  

   Dejean, 
  was 
  first 
  described 
  in 
  the 
  " 
  Annulosa 
  Javanica," 
  and 
  

   must 
  accordingly 
  be 
  attributed 
  to 
  Macleay. 
  0. 
  picilabris 
  = 
  

   0. 
  femoratus 
  Dej. 
  (Spec. 
  Gen.i, 
  1825, 
  281), 
  but 
  Macleay's 
  

   name 
  has 
  priority. 
  Chaudoir 
  in 
  his 
  " 
  Essai 
  monographique 
  

   sur 
  les 
  Orthogoniens 
  " 
  (Ann. 
  Soc. 
  Ent. 
  Belg. 
  xiv, 
  1871, 
  122) 
  

   gives 
  priority 
  to 
  Dejean, 
  but 
  he 
  recognised 
  that 
  the 
  two 
  

   descriptions 
  referred 
  to 
  the 
  same 
  species. 
  In 
  addition 
  to 
  

   Java, 
  it 
  is 
  recorded 
  by 
  Chaudoir 
  from 
  Penang 
  and 
  Malacca. 
  

  

  37. 
  Orthogonius 
  brunnilabris 
  = 
  0. 
  (Carabus) 
  acrogonus 
  

   Wied. 
  (Zool. 
  Mag. 
  i, 
  3, 
  1819, 
  167). 
  The 
  species 
  was 
  also 
  

   described 
  by 
  Dejean 
  (Spec. 
  Gen. 
  v, 
  1831, 
  398) 
  under 
  Wiede- 
  

   mann's 
  name, 
  and 
  its 
  identity 
  with 
  Macleay's 
  species 
  is 
  

   referred 
  to 
  by 
  Chaudoir 
  in 
  his 
  Monograph 
  (I.e. 
  104). 
  It 
  

   appears 
  to 
  be 
  pecuHar 
  to 
  Java. 
  

  

  38. 
  Orthogonius 
  alternans. 
  Macleay 
  believed 
  that 
  his 
  

   species 
  was 
  identical 
  with 
  0. 
  {Plochionus) 
  alternans 
  Wied. 
  

   (Zool. 
  Mag. 
  ii, 
  1, 
  1823, 
  52). 
  Chaudoir 
  mentions 
  Macleay's 
  

   citation 
  (I.e. 
  102), 
  but 
  expresses 
  no 
  opinion. 
  The 
  species 
  

   of 
  Orthogonius 
  alhed 
  to 
  0. 
  alternans 
  Wied., 
  with 
  elvtral 
  

   intervals 
  alternately 
  wider 
  and 
  narrower, 
  seem 
  to 
  me 
  

  

  