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  Mr. 
  H. 
  E. 
  Andrewes 
  on 
  the 
  

  

  As 
  a 
  result 
  the 
  species 
  are 
  little 
  known, 
  and 
  have 
  seldom 
  

   been 
  referred 
  to 
  by 
  subsequent 
  writers, 
  except 
  occasionally 
  

   with 
  a 
  mark 
  of 
  interrogation. 
  General 
  Hardwicke's 
  

   Collection 
  was 
  fortunately 
  bequeathed 
  to 
  the 
  nation, 
  and 
  

   all 
  the 
  types 
  of 
  the 
  Carabidae 
  in 
  question 
  (with 
  one 
  

   exception) 
  are 
  at 
  South 
  Kensington. 
  

  

  I 
  propose 
  to 
  go 
  through 
  the 
  various 
  species 
  comprised 
  in 
  

   this 
  paper 
  in 
  the 
  order 
  in 
  which 
  Hope 
  mentions 
  them, 
  and 
  

   add 
  such 
  comments 
  and 
  descriptions 
  as 
  appear 
  necessary. 
  

  

  1. 
  Desera 
  nepalensis. 
  The 
  genus 
  was 
  indicated 
  rather 
  

   than 
  described 
  by 
  Hope 
  (Col. 
  Man. 
  ii, 
  1838, 
  105). 
  The 
  

   name 
  never 
  came 
  into 
  general 
  use, 
  and 
  was 
  supplanted 
  

   by 
  Schmidt-Goebel's 
  genus 
  Dendrocellus 
  (Faun. 
  Col. 
  Birm. 
  

   1846, 
  24), 
  which 
  held 
  the 
  field 
  until 
  during 
  the 
  last 
  few 
  

   years 
  Hope's 
  name 
  was 
  reintroduced 
  by 
  Commandant 
  

   Dupuis, 
  and 
  as 
  the 
  older 
  name 
  should 
  stand. 
  

  

  Hope's 
  species 
  was 
  identified 
  by 
  Chaudoir 
  (Rev. 
  et. 
  

   Mag. 
  Zool. 
  1872, 
  102) 
  with 
  his 
  D. 
  rugicollis 
  (Bull. 
  Mosc. 
  

   1861, 
  ii, 
  546), 
  a 
  name 
  designed 
  to 
  replace 
  D.flavipes 
  Schm.- 
  

   Goeb. 
  (not 
  Wied.) 
  (I.e. 
  24). 
  With 
  this 
  view 
  I 
  do 
  not 
  agree, 
  

   and 
  I 
  think 
  Dohrn 
  (Stett. 
  Ent. 
  Zeit. 
  1879, 
  457) 
  was 
  prob- 
  

   ably 
  right 
  in 
  identifying 
  D. 
  nepalensis 
  with 
  D. 
  discolor 
  

   Schm.-Goeb. 
  (I.e. 
  24). 
  Bates 
  later 
  on 
  (Compt. 
  rend. 
  Soc. 
  

   Ent. 
  Belg. 
  1891, 
  336) 
  identified 
  as 
  D. 
  discolor 
  some 
  speci- 
  

   mens 
  taken 
  in 
  Bengal 
  and 
  Assam, 
  but 
  without 
  attributing 
  

   them 
  to 
  Hope's 
  species. 
  There 
  are 
  examples 
  in 
  the 
  British 
  

   Museum 
  from 
  Manipur 
  as 
  well 
  as 
  Nepal, 
  and 
  Mr. 
  R. 
  Vitalis 
  

   de 
  Salvaza 
  has 
  recently 
  taken 
  specimens 
  at 
  Chapa 
  in 
  

   Tonkin. 
  I 
  have 
  also 
  in 
  my 
  collection 
  specimens 
  from 
  

   Madura 
  in 
  S. 
  India. 
  As 
  Schmidt-Goebel's 
  description 
  

   is 
  good, 
  I 
  need 
  not 
  add 
  any 
  description 
  of 
  my 
  own. 
  

  

  2. 
  Scarites 
  geryon 
  = 
  S. 
  sulcatus 
  Ohv. 
  (Ent. 
  iii, 
  36, 
  1795, 
  

   7, 
  t. 
  1, 
  f. 
  11). 
  A 
  well-known 
  insect, 
  the 
  habitat 
  of 
  which 
  

   extends 
  from 
  Central 
  India, 
  through 
  Assam, 
  N. 
  Burma, 
  

   Indo-China, 
  Formosa, 
  and 
  E. 
  China 
  to 
  Korea. 
  Chaudoir 
  

   in 
  his 
  " 
  Monographic 
  des 
  Scaritides 
  " 
  (Ann. 
  Soc. 
  Ent. 
  

   Belg. 
  1880, 
  81) 
  gives 
  a 
  note 
  to 
  this 
  species, 
  recording 
  a 
  

   small 
  local 
  race 
  from 
  Java 
  ; 
  of 
  this 
  I 
  have 
  seen 
  no 
  examples. 
  

  

  3. 
  Broscus 
  (Percus) 
  nepalensis 
  = 
  B. 
  (Cephalotes) 
  punctatus 
  

   Dej. 
  (Spec. 
  Gen. 
  iii, 
  1828, 
  431). 
  Dohrn 
  (Stett. 
  Ent. 
  

   Zeit. 
  1879, 
  458) 
  seems 
  to 
  have 
  suspected 
  the 
  identity 
  of 
  

   these 
  two 
  species, 
  and 
  I 
  have 
  no 
  doubt 
  about 
  it. 
  Origmally 
  

   described 
  from 
  the 
  Sinai 
  Peninsula, 
  the 
  species 
  ranges 
  from 
  

   Egypt, 
  through 
  Arabia 
  and 
  Mesopotamia, 
  to 
  N. 
  India. 
  

  

  