ON BONELLI'S TYPES OF ORIENTAL CARABIDAE 



by H. E. Andrewes 



Having been anxious for some time past to see the types of 

 the species of Eastern Carabidae described by Bonelli , I recently 

 asked Dr. Gestro if he would approach the authorities of the 

 Turin Museum, where they are preserved. This he was kind 

 enough to do, and as a result I have lately received them for 

 examination ; for this loan of types I have to offer the Director , 

 Dr. Colosi, and Dr. A. Borelli my warm thanks. I have also to 

 thank Dr. Gestro for his assistance, Mr. Severin for sending me 

 from the Brussels Museum, some specimens from the Putzeys 

 collection, Prof. Poulton for bringing from Oxford an example I 

 desired for comparison, and Mr. Lesne for his help at the Paris 

 Museum. 



The insects themselves are in a better state of preservation 

 than from their great age I anticipated. The descriptions all 

 appeared in the « Observations Entomologiques » , Part II, 

 published in or about 1813, and there are numbers attached to 

 the pins, corresponding with similar numbers in Bonelli's Catalogue. 

 There are nine species in question , but I am able to deal with 

 only eight of them , as one of the types cannot be traced. After 

 each species I have added in a parenthesis the page on which 

 the description appears. 



Siagona plana (p. 458). No. 7002. The label reads « in coll. 

 Dejean No. 1235 sub nom. Stag, depressa Fab., Ind. Orient., 

 tipo ? di Stag, plana Bon. , specimen unicum ». I do not know 

 why a mark of interrogation is inserted after the word « tipo » , 

 but see no reason to doubt that this specimen is actually the type. 



I have already referred (Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (9). Ill, 1919, 

 470) to the identity of this species with Dejean's S. depressa, 

 now confirmed by an examination of the type. I recently publi- 



