36 Dr. Schaum on the British Geodephaga. 



ralis correspond with halophilus, Germ., Dej. ; P. ceruginosus, Ste., 

 is the genuine P. littoralis, Duft., Sturm. 



Omaseus Orinomum is not to be divided from 0. Bulwerii; the spe- 

 cies is not known to me under any other name ; A. IcBvigatus, Ste. 

 is F. minor, Dej., again ; 0. rufifemoratus is a variety of 0. nigrita 

 with red thighs ; 0. tetricus, Haliday, and 0. rotundicollis, Ste., are 

 F. gracilis, Dej. ; 0. affinis is a monstrous specimen of 0. melanarius ; 

 Feronia picea is picimana, Duft., Dej. 



Amara acuminata, ohsoleta, similata, trivialis, vulgaris, spreta, fa- 

 miliaris, communis and tibialis, Ste., are the Erichsonian species of 

 the same names ; A. ovata belongs to A. obsoleta, as do also A. in- 

 genua and subcenea of the Stephensian collection, but the descriptions 

 of the two last in Stephens's ' Manual ' are repetitions of those given 

 by Erichson under those names. Stephens's descriptions of A. mu- 

 nicipalis, brunnea, curta and patricia are also borrowed from Erichson, 

 the genuine species of these names not existing in his collection. The 

 specimen there marked as A. curta is a dark A. spreta ; the original 

 specimen of the A. discrepans. Marsh., referred by Stephens to A. 

 brunnea, isan^. bifrons ; the Stephensian descriptions of ^. munici- 

 palis and patricia are not founded on specimens. The other species 

 of the genus answer to ours as follows, viz. : A. nitida, Ste., is the 

 true A. plebeja, GylL, A. Icevls and lucida belong to A.familiaris, 

 A. convexior, plebeja, obtusa and atroccerulea to A. communis, Gyll., 

 and A. erythropa and injima to A. gemina, Er. ; A. atra is a black 

 variety of A. trivialis, A. laticollis probably the true A. nitida, Sturm, 

 Er., and A. tricuspidata is a species unknown to me, distinct from 

 A. tricuspidata, Dej., perhaps A. depressa, Er. 



Brady tus crassus is identical with A. consularis, B. marginatus the 

 same as A. patricia, B. torridus an immature female of A. apricaria, 

 and B.fulvus and ferrugineus are mutually identical. 



Harpalus serripes, tardus and stygius belong to H. serripes, as do 

 also H . fuscipalpis and tenebrosus, whilst H. rufimanus, fuliginosus 

 and latus constitute the true H. tardus. 111., Dej. ; H, nigripes, piger, 

 anxius,femoralis, complanatus, Jlaviventris and luteicornis are all only 

 slight varieties of H. anxius ; H, luteicornis for example being a small 

 female, audi/, complanatus diiid Jlaviventris immature specimens. H. 

 thoracicus, depressus and melampus are the same as H. semiviolaceus , 

 Dej.; H. Petisii, rubripes , azureus , chloropterus, marginellus, fulvipes 

 and lentus are varieties, sexual or otherwise, of H. rubripes ; H. caffer 

 is the true H. perplexus, GylL, Dej. ; H. rufitarsis a small, and H. 

 calceatus a large specimen of Anisodactylus binotatus. Upon the other 

 Harpali I cannot venture to pronounce any opinion ; they are mostly 

 species which are rare in the north-east of Germany and are less 

 known to me. 



Pangus scaritides, a single female, which has nothing in common 

 with Selenophorus scaritides, and appeared to me scarcely distinct 

 from Actephilus pumilus, Ste. 



Actejjhilus vernalis is H. picipennis, Dej. ; A. pumilus is not known 

 to me with certainty. 



Ophonus stictus appeared to me to belong to H. monticola, Dej. 



