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that this type came from Piedmont. It has an unusually wide 

 prothorax, but agrees in other respects with examples from South 

 Europe. The species is well known and has a wide range over 

 the palaearctic region. In specimens from China and Japan the 

 elytral striae are sometimes quite smooth, though there are 

 usually traces of crenulation; this form was described by Bates 

 many years ago (Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1873. 238) under the 

 name S. pacificus. 



Scarites arenarius (p. 472). No. 7018. The prothorax is rela- 

 tively narrow, and the head is more densely and more finely 

 striate than usual, but otherwise this type resembles that of 

 S. terricola, with which species it was long ago, and quite 

 correctly , identified. 



Scarites mancus (p. 473). No. 7014. This type is in rather 

 a poor state of preservation, but is quite recognizable. Both 

 Dejean (Spec. Gen. I. 1825. 394) and Chaudoir in his Monographie 

 des Scaritides treated this species as distinct from S. indus Oliv., 

 but the latter pointed out that it differed only in having impunc- 

 tate striae, as I find to be the case. The puncturation of the 

 striae is very variable and I regard the two species as identical, 

 though on average the impunctate form seems to be rather larger, 

 and commoner in South India and Ceylon. It is very common 

 in India and Ceylon, but does not seem to extend further, though 

 I have seen examples reputed to come from Canton, Java, and 

 Tenasserim. 



It may be mentioned that the type of S. indus Oliv. was 

 said by the author to be in the « Cabinet du Roi » , so that it 

 should now be in the Paris Museum. Possibly it is one of the 

 three specimens I saw, but I could find no means of identifying it. 



divina lobata (p. 481). No. 7026. The length of the type is 

 o.75 mm., and it came from Bengal. Dejean redescribed the species 

 under the same name (Spec. Gen. I. 1825. 414), and both typical 

 specimens were sent to the respective authors by Schiippel of 

 Berlin. In the Putzeys collection at Brussels there is an example 

 of the species bearing the label « Schiippel », and probably this 



