On the Nomenclalure of certain Ruteh'ne Coleoptera. 2.'*! 



L. offinis and L. batei, wliicli are stated to occur both in the 

 Athuitic aud in tlie Pacitic Oceans. It may be that differ- 

 ences will eventually l)e found between the eastern and 

 western specimens which have been referred to these species. 

 The genus is represented in all the warmer seas of tlie world, 

 and in some of moderate warmth, but not, it would seem, 

 in cold waters. There is some indication that certain species 

 belong normally to coastal waters, others to the high seas, 

 and yet others indifferently to both these kinds of habitat, 

 but conclusions upon this question cannot safely be drawn 

 until many more captures have been recorded. It will, of 

 course, be necessary to distinguish between stray individuals 

 and those which have been taken in their normal habitat. 



XXIX, — Note on the Nomenclature of certain Species of 

 Ruteline Coleoptera. By Gilbert J. Arrow. 



(Published by permission of the Trustees of the British Museum.) 



Having, with inexcusable carelessness, introduced as new 

 several preoccupied names in the great genera Anomala and 

 Adoretus, I here substitute fresh ones for them, and I have 

 at the same time renamed various other species of the same 

 genera whose present names are inadmissible for the same 

 reason. The species are : — 



Anomala peninsularis, Arrow, Ann. & 

 Mag. Nat. Hist. (8) viii. 191 1, p. 483 

 (preoccupied by Schaeffer, 1906), to 

 be called fulvohirta, n. n. 



A. phylloperthoides, Nonfr. Ent. Nachr. 

 XX. 189-i, p. 122 (preoccupied by 

 Fairmaire, whose Popillia phyllo- 

 perthoides, 1888, is an Anomala 

 closely related to A. erythroptera, 

 Kraatz), to be called alterata,n. xx. 



A. mimeloides, Reitt. Verh. Ver. Briinn. 

 xli. 1903, p. 71 (preoccupied by 

 Ohaus, 1902), to be called . . . sinica, n. n. 



A. ivhiteheadi, Oliaus, Pliilipp. Journ. 

 Sci. V. 1910 (October), p. 243 (pre- 

 occupied by Arrow, July 1910), to 

 be called albaya, n. n. 



