36 Dr. Schaum on the British Geodephaga. 
ralis correspond with halophilus, Germ., Dej.; P. @eruginosus, Ste., 
is the genuine P. littoralis, Duft., Sturm. 
Omaseus Orinomum is not to be divided from O. Bulwerii; the spe- 
cies is not known to me under any other name ; A. levigatus, Ste. 
is F. minor, Dej., again; O. rufifemoratus is a variety of O. nigrita 
with red thighs; O. tetricus, Haliday, and O. rotundicollis, Ste., are 
F. gracilis, De}. ; O. affinis is a monstrous specimen of O. melanarius ; 
Feronia picea is picimana, Duft., De}. 
Amara acuminata, obsoleta, similata, trivialis, vulgaris, spreta, fa- 
miliaris, communis and tibialis, Ste., are the Erichsonian species of 
the same names; JA. ovata belongs to A. obsoleta, as do also A. in- 
genua and subenea of the Stephensian collection, but the descriptions 
of the two last in Stephens’s ‘ Manual’ are repetitions of those given 
by Erichson under those names. Stephens’s descriptions of A. mu- 
nicipalis, brunnea, curta and patricia are also borrowed from Erichson, 
the genuine species of these names not existing in his collection. The 
specimen there marked as A. curta is a dark A. spreta; the original 
specimen of the A. discrepans, Marsh., referred by Stephens to 4. 
brunnea, isan A. bifrons ; the Stephensian descriptions of A. munici- 
palis and patricia are not founded on specimens. ‘The other species 
of the genus answer to ours as follows, viz.: A. nitida, Ste., is the 
true A. plebeja, Gyll., A. levis and lucida belong to A. familiaris, 
A. convexior, plebeja, obtusa and atrocerulea to A. communis, Gyll., 
and A. erythropa and infima to A. gemina, Er.; A. atra is a black 
variety of A. trivialis, A. laticollis probably the true A. nitida, Sturm, 
Er., and A. tricuspidata is a species unknown to me, distinct from 
A. tricuspidata, Dej., perhaps A. depressa, Er. 
Bradytus crassus is identical with A. consularis, B. marginatus the 
same as A. patricia, B. torridus an immature female of A. apricaria, 
and B. fulvus and ferrugineus are mutually identical. 
Harpalus serripes, tardus and stygius belong to H. serripes, as do 
also H. fuscipalpis and tenebrosus, whilst H. rufimanus, fuliginosus 
and datus constitute the true H. tardus, Il., Dej.; H. nigripes, piger, 
anzxius, femoralis, complanatus, flaviventris and luteicornis are all only 
slight varieties of H. anzius ; H. luteicornis for example being a small 
female, and H. complanatus and flaviventris immature specimens. H. 
thoracicus, depressus and melampus are the same as H. semiviolaceus, 
Dej.; H. Petisii, rubripes, azureus, chloropterus, marginellus, fulvipes 
and /entus are varieties, sexual or otherwise, of H. rubripes; H. caffer 
is the true H. perplexus, Gyll., Dej.; H. rufitarsis a small, and H. 
calceatus a large specimen of Anisodactylus binotatus. Upon the other 
Harpali 1 cannot venture to pronounce any opinion; they are mostly 
species which are rare in the north-east of Germany and are less 
known to me. 
Pangus scaritides, a single female, which has nothing in common 
with Selenophorus scaritides, and appeared to me scarcely distinct 
from Actephilus pumilus, Ste. 
Actephilus vernalis is H. picipennis, Dej. ; A. pumilus is not known 
to me with certainty. 
Ophonus stictus appeared to me to belong to H. monticola, Dej. 
