150 E. T. Atk'mson— Catalogue of the Family Gyrinidao. [Supplt. 



vieridionalis, Gene, Mem. Ac. Turin., 1836, p. 170, t. 1, f. 3. Sardinia, 

 var. artensis, Montrouzier, Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr., (3s ) viii, I860, p. 241. Art Island. 

 „ asiaticus, Sharp, Dytisc, p. 731. India, Persia, Mesopotamia [/?i<?. Jlfw*., 



Dekhan]. 

 „ hamatus, Montrouzier, Ann. Soc. Agric. Lyon, vii (1), 1857, p. 9. Woodlark_ 



Island. 

 „ iVijva? Galedonice, Montrouzier, Ann. Fr., Z.c. supra, p. 241, New Caledonia. 

 ,, Temnenkii, Aube, Dejean Spec, vi, 1838, p. 74. Java. 



Hab. S. Europe, Africa, Madagascar, Bourbon, Mauritius, India, Ceylon, 

 Saigon, Philippines, Java, New Guinea, New Caledonia^ Oceania [Ind, 

 Mm., Andamans, Madras, Biluchistan, Calcutta, Rangoon, N. China], 

 ventralis, Sharp, Dytisc, p. 742. 

 Hab. Madras. 



virens, M tiller, Zool. Dan, Prodr,, 1776, p. 170. 



disjpar, Rossi, Faun. Etrusc, i, 1790, p. 199. Italy. 



dissimilis^ Kossi, Mant., i, 1792, p. &&. Italy. 



glaher, Bergstrasser, Nomencl., i, 1778, p. 50, t. 6, f. 4-5 ; t. 8, f . 4 ; t. 9, 

 f. 2. Germany. 



intricatus, Schaller, Schrift. Nat. Ges. Halle, i, 1783, p. 311, ?. Sweden. 



jounctnlatus, Schwarz, Nomencl., i, 1793, p. 34. Sweden. 



Roeselii,Fu9^\y, Verzeichn. Schw. Ins., 1775, p. 5 :Goeze, Ent. Beytr., i, 1777, 

 Roesel, Ins., ii, Ins. Aquat., i, p. 617 :t. 2, f. 1-5 : Fabr., Ent. Syst., i, 

 p. 188 ; Syst. Eleuth., i, p. 259 : Olivier, Ent., iii, 40, p. 13, t. 3, f. 21 a. b. : 

 Sturm, Ins., viii, p. 62,65, t. 192 : Jacq. Duval, Gen. Col., t.28, f. 138 <? : 

 Aube, Dejean Spec, vi, p. 66 : Schiodte, Nat. Tidskr., 1864, p. 185, t. 7, 

 f. 10-16 : Sharp, Dytisc, p. 747 ; id., Ent. Mon. Mag., xix, p. 260. France. 



? tataricno, Gebler in Ledeb's Reise, ii, 1830, p. 64; ia.. Bull. Mosc, 

 (2), 1850, p. 450 : Sharp, Dytisc, p. 775. Tartary. 



virescens, Linn., Gmelin, Syst. Nat., i (4), 1788, p. 1958. 



var. Chaudoirii, Hochhuth, Chaud,, Enum, Carab., 1846, p. 213. Lenkoran. 

 „ lepldus, Kiister, Kafer Europas, i, 1844, p. 24. Dalmatia. 

 „ ? lusitanicus. Sharp, Dytisc, p. 747. Portugal. 

 „ politus, Gautier, Rev. Zool., 1866, p. 179. Spain. 

 „ ? Jordanis^ Reiche, Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr., (3s.), iv, 1856, p. 637. Palestine. 



Hab. Europe, N Africa, ? India [Ind. Mus., Yarkand]. 



Welinckianus, Sharp, Dytisc, p. 737. 

 Hab. ? India. 



Family GYRINID^. 

 Catalogue of the Insecta of the Oriental Region No. 5. Order Coleoptera, 

 Family Gtrinid^e.— 5y E. T. Atkinson, B. A. 



The species of this family are of an oval form, somewhat attenuated 

 at either end : of a bluish black colour, shining. Their habits are aquatic, 

 and from their movements on the surface of the water, they have 

 obtained the common name of * whirligigs.' The arrangement proposed 

 by Dr. M. Regimbart in his ' Monograph of the Gyrinidce. ' is followed 



