OBSERVATIONS ON SPECIES OF THE GENUS CALLIMENUS. 271 



Soc. Ent. Fr. ii. p. 318, there are included at the present time six 

 species, of which five belong to the European fauna. These five 

 species are the following : — 



Callimenus oniscus, Charp. (1839). 



C. longicollis, Schulth. (1881) = pancici, Brunn.-Watt. 



(1881). , • . ... 



C. montandoni, Burr. (1898) = longicollis, Fieb. non Schulth. 



C. dilatatus, Stal (1875) =zinflatus, Brunn.-Watt. (1882). 



G. brauneri, Shug. (1907). . . 



The sixth species, hitherto only known from Persia, is C. 

 latipes, Stal.* . 



The synonymy of the species of Callimenus is exceedingly 



confused. . . . 



Thus Lefebvre, in 1831, in Guerm's Magasm de Zool.^i. 

 No. 5, gave the description of some kind of "Ground Pig"t 

 (vide fig. 1 on pi. 5, 2,1. c.) under the name of Epippiger macro- 

 gaster,t in the opinion of Mr. Burr {in litt.) entirely distinct from 

 C. oniscus, Charp., and approaching the species of the type of 

 C. montandoni and C. brauneri. In the meantime, every author, 

 from Fischer, of Fribourg,§ to Jacobson,[| regards G. macrogaster, 

 Lef., as synonymous with C. oniscus, Charp., acknowledging the 

 right of priority to Lefebvre's name. 



C. longicollis, Fieb., is queried by Brunner von WattenwylH 

 as a synonym of C. pancici, but, as it seems to me, without 

 sufficient grounds. . 



Fieber** describes his var. a in such a way that his diagnosis 

 may be also referred to C. pancici, Br. v. Watt., and especially 

 to C. montandoni, Burr, a synonym of which it evidently is. 



C. longicollis, Schulthess-Bechberg, was described by that 

 author in' 1881 from specimens from Nish, in Servia, in his 

 article, " Eine Excursion nach Serbien." ft 



Schulthess writes :— " This species is closely allied to C. 

 oniscus, Charp., which is common throughout Greece, and is 

 distinguished by the form of the subgenital lamina of the female, 

 the somewhat more obtuse lobes of the metasternum, and through 

 a different arrangement of the folds of the pronotum, which 

 has thus the appearance of a somewhat greater length." In 

 spite of the vagueness of the specific distinctions m the case ol 

 Schulthess's species, it is still possible to affirm, with a sufficient 



* [A seventh, very distinct, species was brought home by Senor Escalera, 

 also from Persia, and will be described by Bolivar.— M. B.] 



f [" Zemliannaia Svinka," the popular Russian name for these remark- 

 able insects. — M. B.] . 



t Unfortunately I have had no access to Lefebvre s work. 



§ Orth. Eur. 1853, p. 203. 



|| Jacobsonand Bianki, Priam, i. Lozhn. Ross. Imp. 1905, p. 421. 



<T Prod. Eur. Orth. 1882. 

 ** Syn. Eur. Orth. Lotos, iv. 1853. 

 ft Mitth. Schweiz. Ent. Ges. vi. 5, 1881, pp. 383-384. 



