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(the genuine Carabus obscurus, Fab.); O. punctatulus and nitidulus 
are mutually identical, and the same as H. punctatulus, Dej.; O. 
punctatissimus may perhaps be subcordatus, Dej.; O. foraminulosus 
appeared to me to belong to puncticollis, Payk., Dej., and O. punc- 
ticeps to be a small variety of the same species, whilst O. puneticollis, 
subpunctatus and cribellum might answer for the H. brevicollis, De}. 
I will not however give out these statements as absolutely certain. 
Stenolophus Skrimshiranus might perhaps correspond with the S. 
melanocephalus, Findel, which is described by Dejean as a variety of 
S. vaporariorum, but I am not convinced that it is so. 
Most of the specimens of Trechus dorsalis in the Stephensian col- 
lection belonged to Stenol. elegans, Dej.; Tv echus parvulus is an im- 
mature St. dorsalis, Dej. ; T. flavicollis is Acup. luridus, De}., but not 
T. flavicollis, Sturm ; T. nitidus is identical: with the preceding; T. 
ruficollis is Bradycellus similis, Er., and T. placidus the Bradycellus 
placidus, Er.; T. suturalis is Acup. cognatus, Gyll., Dej. The spe- 
cimens with a reddish thorax which are mentioned in Stephens’s 
descriptions belong to placidus, Gyll.; I cannot distinguish 7. fulvus 
from Acup. Harpalinus, Dej.; T. pallidus is founded on immature 
specimens of the same species. 
T. brunnipes.is a species of Bradycellus not otherwise known to 
me, nearly allied to B. Harpalinus, and distinct from Stenol. brun- 
nipes, Sturm, Er.; 7. consputus and meridianus are the species so 
called by Erichson ; 7’. cognatus is nothing but a specimen of T. me- 
ridianus; T. aquaticus, with its varieties T. fuscipennis and tristis, is 
identical with T. minutus, Er., and T. levis is a large specimen of the 
same species. 
Blemus paludosus is Dejean’s Trechus of the same name; B. pal- 
lidus answers exactly to the description of Trechus fulvus, Dej., but 
does not agree with 7’. pallidus, Sturm. Of the true B. longicornis, 
Sturm, I have seen no English specimen. 
Lymneum nigropiceum is a very marked species, which was pre- 
viously quite unknown to me. 
Tachys scutellaris is the same as Bemb. scutellare, Dej.; T. bino- 
tatus and vitiatus the same as B. guttula, Dej., Er.; T. inermis, pu- 
sillus, obtusus and gracilis belong to B. obtusum, Sturm, De}. ; T. mi- 
nutissimus and perhaps also T. minimus, Curt., which I have not seen, 
are identical with B. bistriatum, Dej.; T. maritimus is not in Ste- 
phens’s collection. 
Philochihus eneus is Bemb. eneum, Germ. ; P. Doris, subfenestratus 
and biguttatus appeared to me to belong to B. vulneratum, Dej.; and 
P. gutiula to B. biguttatum. The typical specimen of B. hemorrhoum, 
Kirby, is a B. guttula, Dej. Specimens of B. obtusum have been con- 
founded with it by Stephens. 
Ocys currens is Bemb. pumilio, Dej.; O. melanocephalus and tem- 
pestivus are the same as B. rufescens, De}. 
Peryphus femoratus and concinnus appeared to me to belong to 
Bemb. Bruzellense, Putz., and the second is certainly different from 
B. concinnum of Putzeys. Under P. muritimus several species are 
confounded ; of the four specimens in the Stephensian cabinet, two 
