150 E. T. Atkinson — Catalogue of the Family Gyrinidae. [Supplt. 



meridionalis, Gene, Me'm. Ac. Turin., 1836, p. 170, t. 1, f. 3. Sardinia, 

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

 „ asiaticus, Sharp, Dytisc., p. 731. India, Persia, Mesopotamia \_Ind. Mus., 



Dekhan]. 

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



Island. 

 „ Novce Caledonia, Montrouzier, Ann. Fr., I.e. 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. 

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



centralis, Sharp, Dytisc, p. 742. 

 Hab. Madras. 



virens, Muller, Zool. Dan. Prodr., 1776, p. 170. 



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



dissimilis, Rossi, Mant. , i, 1792, p. 66. Italy. 



glaber, Bergstrasser, Nomencl., i, 1778, p. 59, t. 6, f. 4-5 ; t. 8, f. 4 j t. 9, 

 f. 2. Germany. 



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



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



Roeselii, Fiis&ly, 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. Co)., t.28, f. 138 <J : 

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

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



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

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



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



var. Ohaudoirii, Hochhuth, Chaud., Enum. Carab., 1846, p. 213. Lenkorau. 

 „ lepidus, 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], 



Wehnckianus, Sharp, Dytisc, p. 737. 

 Hab. ? India. 



Family GYRINXDJE. 

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



Family Gyrinid*:.— By 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. Regimbavt in his ' Monograph of the Gyrinidm ' is followed 



