Mr. H. E. Andrewes on rlejital Carnhidve. 471 



Gen. i. p. .TGI) describeJ ns *S. depressa, F., an In<li;i!i 

 specimen which was in fact identical with IJoncIli's S. jihimi, 

 and in tho following year (Sj)«!C. Gen. ii. j).4G)5) he dcdcribLd 

 another spocics from the Mediterranean as S. europea. 



(Miaudoir, in hi.s Monograph on the genus (Bull. Mosc. 

 187G, i. p. 'JO), followed Dejean in identifying S. depressa^ 

 Y.J with S. plana, Hon., and he gives the habitat of S. europeUj 

 Dej., as extending from Senegal to Bengal. 



In 1887 Mr. Bedel (Ann. Soc. Kut. Fr. p. 105) expressed 

 the view that S. europea, Di'j. = is. depre.ssa, F. (not Dej., 

 not Chaud.), and that the latter name should stand for the 

 species, as in fact it does in his 'Catalogue raisonne des 

 Coleopteres du Nord de I'Afrique/ 18l.t7, p. 108. There the 

 matter rests at present, and Mr. Bedel would be quite right 

 if the Mediterranean and Indian species were identical. 

 I 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 vari(Mis countries bordering the jMcditerraneaii 

 and from Arabia. The conclusion I arrive at is that the two 

 s|>ecies are di^^tinct. Fabricius evidently had both before 

 him when drawing up his description, and, as Dejean lias 

 since described one of them as S. eui-opea, I think the ^ledi- 

 terranean species should bear that name, the name S. depressa 

 being reserved for the Indian one. 



6'. depressa is on average wider than S. europea, joints 1 

 and 2 of the antennae are rather more dilated and joint 1 is 

 more rounded off at the apex, the strangulation of the neck 

 is dee|)t'r, the ocular ridges are stronger and practically reach 

 the hind margin of the eye (iliey stop at two-thirds diameter 

 of eye in europea). Prothoracic furrows rather deeper, 

 })unciuration of disk much stronger, sides more rounded and 

 more contracted in front. Elytra rather more oval, less 

 parallel, and a little niore coarsely punctate; the smooth 

 aiea along the raised suture mucii less evident, the pubescence 

 rather longer and yellower in colour. Underside more closely 

 punctate. 



I wrote recently about the types to the University Mui^euni 

 of Co|)enhagen, and Dr. Lundbeck has very kindly examined 

 the collection there and written me in reply, lie tells me 

 that the handwriting of Fabiicius is not to be found in the 

 Lund and JSehestedt collections, and he believes the labels to 

 have been written by Sehestedt. There siiould be exanijth's 

 of S. depresfu ivowx j\Iaurttania {Schvutiboe) and India {/Jal- 

 dorjf'), but the latter is not to be found. There aie, however, 

 two examples which have always been regarded as tvpes, 



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