1690.] E. T. Aikmson—Catalogue of the Carabidse. S 



and contenting ourselves with the simple method of numbering the 

 tribes or groups, instead of naming them.' As pointed out by Mr. Sharp, 

 the number of tribes, or groups of genera, in each sub-family is greater 

 than those given by Dr. Horn, whose investigations refer mainly to tho 

 species of North America. Mr. Sharp also remarks that, in the case of 

 many of the tribes adopted by Dr. Horn, that writer makes use of the 

 same names for them as have been used by his predecessors, although 

 giving to those names a widely different extension or meaning. Though 

 this is the usual plan, it gives to classifications a false appearance of 

 accord and permanence, and also, by giving to the names the sanction of 

 long use, tends to make them appear in the eyes of many of more 

 importance than they are in fact. With these remarks I thoroughly 

 concur, and any one who has had to study the literature of the Carabidce^ 

 will, I am sure, endorse them. In preparing this paper, I have found 

 that it would be possible almost to count as a group* each genus, and I 

 consider the best course is to arrange the genera as near as possible in 

 the groups that have been established with some authority, and then to 

 give fairly full referencest, which those who have the knowledge and 

 material can hereafter work out for themselves. I possess neither the 

 time nor the material necessary for this purpose, and my object is merely 

 to help others by giving a list of the recorded species from the Oriental 

 Kegion.J 



Bates H. :— 



On the group Pericalini .'--Ent. Men. Mag., vi, 1869. p. Q^, 



„ „ LachnopTiorini :—l.c. viii. 1871. p. 29. 

 Biologia Centrali- Amer. , Col. i (i), 1881. 



fionelU, F. A. :— 



'Observations entolnologiques,' in Memoires de 1' Academie Imperiale dea 

 Sciences, Litt6rature et Beaux-arts, classe de Physique et de Mathematique, pour les 

 anuses, 1809-10. Turin, 1809, p. 21 : iUd., 1813 p. 442. [My copy does not 

 contain the tab. syn, quoted by authors.] 



BruUe, A, :— 



Histoire naturelle des Insectes, par M M Audouin et Brulle. (Coleopteres)* 

 iv-vi. Paris, 1834. 



* Let any one compare the notes in the Zoological Kecord for a series of years, 

 and he will at once appreciate the extent of the existing confusion, which the 

 ZoologiscTier Jahreshericht got over by giving the genera in alphabetical order. 



t A list follows of the principal papers of Chaudoir, Putzeys, Bates, and others 

 on classification. 



X A few extra- Oriental species, marked by an asterisk, are given from the collection 

 made by the Yarkand Mission of which the types are in the Indian Museum, The 

 species identified in the Indian Museum have the precise locality in angular brackets. 



