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from which I presume he considers Aprostoma and Mecedanum to be 

 the same In doing this he perhaps adopted Dohrn's previous state- 

 ment ; but if I am correct in identifying the insect from Africa in 

 Mr. Fry's collection with Aprostoma, then Mecedanum (as interpreted 

 by me) and Aprostoma are quite distinct. Aprostoma, however, belongs 

 also to the Gempylodini, and what I have written is not affected if 

 Eeitter's view be correct, other than that Mecedanum Erichsoni would 

 become the type of a new genus. 



Westwood's identification of Aprostoma was made from an ex- 

 amination of Gruerin's unique type ; the insects of that genus might 

 be supposed to have some relation to the HrentJiidcB, but Mecedanum 

 'Eriehsoni has the body sculptured after the fashion of Golydium, and 

 could scarcely be considered by any one to have such an affinity. 

 Until, however, we have a description of Erichson's original specimen, 

 it is impossible to decide whether Aprostoma and Mecedanum are 

 really the same, actual comparison of the two types being, I believe, 

 unattainable. 



Coleoptera in Morayshire (concluded from p. 71). — I am at length in a positioia 

 to conclude the list of species of Coleoptera taken by me last autumn near Forres, 

 having worked out, to the best of my ability, all those that were unfinished at the 

 date of my previous communication (p. 68 ante), with the exception of a few Sta- 

 phylinidcB and Salticidce. My total list amounts to about 450 species. Having 

 regard to the period of the year at which they were taken, this seems a large number ; 

 a collector accustomed to the northern fauna would probably have taken far more, but 

 a large quantity of the insects (some 70 or more) were new to me, and in dealing 

 with large numbers of small insects under such circumstances, it is impossible to 

 avoid occasionally overlooking closely allied species. 



My list includes — Adephaga : — Elaphrus riparius (a) ; both Nebria hrevicollis 

 and Gyllenhali (a) ; Leistus rufescens (e) ; Carahus nemoralis, one very small speci- 

 men floating on a flood; Cychrus rostratus ; Dromius nigriventris (e), fairly abundant, 

 4i-maculatus nwA agilis ; Metahletus foveola ; Dyschirius glohosus and salinus (fc), 

 impunctipennis (c), and politus {e) ; Broscus cephalotes (b) ; Miscodera arctica {e) ; all 

 the species of Calathus ; Taphria nivalis on the sandhills ; Olisthopus rotundatus (e) ; 

 Amara acuminata, apricaria, consularis {e),fulva (c), lunicoUis (e), and a specimen 

 (e), which working out with the books will only fit into Quenselii — I am really unable 

 to say what it is ; JSarpalus ruhripes ; Pterostichus versicolor ; Bradycellus placidus, 

 similis and harpalinus ; Diehirotrichus pubescens (&), both light and dark forms, the 

 former seem chiefly female and the latter male ; Patrobus excavatus and assimi- 

 lis, one very stunted specimen with the frontal striation strong, taken in flood refuse ; 

 Cillenus lateralis (jb) ; Bembidium ceneum (b), anglicanum (a), atrocceruleum (a), 

 bipunctatum (a), decorum {a),femoratum (a), lunatum (6), only one specimen at a 

 time, minimum (b), monticola (a), pallidipenne (c), paludosum (a), in the same spot 



