OBSERVATIONS ON SPECIES OF THE GENUS CALLIMENUS. 273 



in my collection four, of which two are damaged, it is impossible 

 to solve this question. 



The species of Callimenus (I do not include C. latipes, Stal, in 

 this review) are recorded from the following localities in Europe 

 and Asia Minor : — 



Callimenus oniscus, Charp. : Transylvania (Hermannopolis, 

 Prof. Fuss.) ;* Greece (Thessaly, Epirus, the neighbourhood of 

 Athens) ; Turkey (Macedonia) ;t Asia Minor ;X Koumania (ac- 

 cording to Fischer, " Valachia, near mts. Kraiova");§ Russia 

 (Government of Cherson) ;|| Province of Kuban (?) ; 11 Ekaterino- 

 slav (Veliko-anadol) ; ** Government of Kharkoff (near the town 

 of Kharkoff ;tf and of Voronezh). 1 1 



C. longicollis, Schulth. (non Fieb. !) has been found near 

 Nish, inServia,§§ and in Turkey. ||!j 



C. dilatatus, Stal, has been found at Amasia, and generally in 

 Asia Minor up to Lake Van. 



C. montandoni, Burr, was found in Roumania,HH and in 

 Bessarabia. 



C. brauneri, Shug., was found in Northern Ciscaucasia, in the 

 valley of the Manuich,*** near Rostov-on-the-Don. 



As regards the record by Jacobson of C. oniscus, Charp., from 

 the Crimea, it appears that it arose through a slight misunder- 

 standing. The " Station Sennaja," near which, according to 

 Fischer, Stevens's Callimenus was found, is not in the Crimea, 

 but in the Taman Peninsula, on the south-eastern shore of the 

 Tamansky Gulf; so that all records of Fischer Fr., Jacobson, 

 Brunner von Wattenwyl, and Shuguroff, of Callimenus from the 

 Crimea, are based upon a simple mistake in geography, fit 



From this review of the geographical distribution of the 

 species of Callimenus, the following conclusions are evident : of 

 the five European representatives of Callimenus, four have a 

 very restricted geographical distribution, and only one (C. oniscus, 

 Charp.) inhabits all the northern, western, and eastern shores of 

 the Black Sea and Greece. With regard to the presence of 

 C. oniscus within the boundaries of Southern Russia, the records 



* Fisch. Fr. Orth. Eur. 1853, p. 203. 



f Brunner von Wattenwyl, Prod. Eur. Orth. 1882, p. 252. 



I Werner, Sitz. k. Ak. Wien., inath-nat. CI., Bd. ex. Abth. i. pp. 285-286. 



§ Fisch. Fr. oj). cit. p. 203. 



|| Shuguroff, Rev. Russe d'Ent. v. 1905, pp. 34-35. 



IF Lindeman, Obsch. Osnov. Entom. p. 206. 



** Ibid., p. 206. ft Shuguroff, I. c. p. 35. JJ Ibid -> P- 35 - 



§§ Brunner von Wattenwyl, op. cit. p. 253. 



HI] Schulthess, Mitth. Schweiz Ent. Ges. vi. 5, 1881, p. 384. 



1T1I Burr, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1898. 



*** Shuguroff, Rev. Russe d'Ent. vi. 1906, Nos. 1-2. 



iff A. A. Brauuer told me that a species of Callimenus was found by 

 him near Aleshek, but S. A. Mokrzhetsky informed me of the existence of 

 some species of Callimenus near the village of Vodianoe in the district of the 

 Bniepr, in the Government of Tabrich. 



