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and L, PterosHohi, make me feel very doubtful whether it would not be better to unite all three forms 

 under one protean species. Yet until I have examined more material, and especially have had an oppor- 

 tunity to study the large collections obtained during a recent journey in South America which are not vet 

 available for examination, it seems best to retain these three names provisionally. What I have formerly 

 spoken of as the " flageUata" type, is one about which are clustered a large number of undoubtedly dis- 

 tinct forms, which may occasionally, or even frequently, present variations which, in the absence of other 

 data, could not possibly be separated from conditions of the present species. This is true for example 

 in the case of L. Brachial which, in its typical condition is, however, one of the most readily recog- 

 nizable species. 



What the type form of L. flageUata really is, it is not possible to determine from the insufficient de- 

 scription of Peyritsch, or from the diagrammatic figures which accompany it, and it is not improbable 

 that the form said tooccuron Bembidium may be specifically distinct from those on Anchomenus; although, 

 as far as can be determined from the figure of the former, it does not differ from the anchomenoid type. 



Among the more striking forms which, from their variations toward this type, I have been reluctant 

 to separate specifically, those occurring on Anchomeni (Platynus) in New Zealand deserve special mention. 

 The typical forms of this race are very striking, and would be without hesitation specifically separated from 

 the more typical conditions of L. flageUata: yet its variations are such that I am at present unable to 

 separate it from certain Asiatic and South American material, and it is therefore included provisionally 

 under the present species. 



Until I am able to make an extended revision of these forms and illustrate them adequately the 

 following additional material which has been accumulated since the publication of my Monograph may 

 be provisionally included under the present species. 



British Museum: No. 416 on Anchomenus debilis Woll., Canaries; No. 415 on A. Nicholsi Woll., 

 Canaries; No. (134 on Platynus alacer Boh., Natal, Africa; No. 633 on Antisphodrus cavicola Schaum., 

 ( lamiola, Austria; No. 632 on A. longieoUis Boh., Carniola; No. 414 on Calatkus carinatus Brulle, Tene- 

 riffe; No. 416 on Argutor angularis Br., Tcncriffe; No. 631 on Pseudopristonychus cimmerius Steph., 

 South Russia; No. 728 on Coptodera Champion i. Bates, Bugaba, Panama; No. 635 on Pleurosoma sul- 

 catum Guer., Columbia; No. 697 on Colpodes melanocnemis Chd., Guatemala City, Guatemala; No. 

 698 on Colpodes atratus Chaud., Irazu, Costa Rica; No. 418 on Dichirotrichus levistriatus Woll., Canaries ; 

 No. 701 on Onypterigia pusilla Chaud., Jalapa, Mexico; No. 680 on Notiobia luroides Bates, British 

 Honduras. 



Florence Museum: No. (a) on Pristonychus punctulatus Dej., Naples; No. (d) on Platynus attnpes 

 Fabr., Florence ?; No. 1 on Argutor interstinctus Sturm., Florence: No. (m) on Pristonychus Algerinus 

 Gory, Sardinia; No. (f) on Platynus lugens Duft., Piedmont; No. (c) on P.dorsalis Mull., Florence (?) 



Paris Museum: No. 181 on Antisphodrus Aeacus Miller, Cave of Narente, Dalmatia; No. 182 on 

 A. Ebcri Sch., same locality; No. 1826 on A. cavicola Sch., Istria; No. 131 on Platynus'!, Sikkim, India; 

 No. 120 on Platynus sp. (?) New Zealand (?); No. 123 on Anchomenus deplanatus White, New Zealand; 

 No. 158 on Notonomus variicollis Chd., Australia; No. 195 on Rhagodus laripunctatus, Pekin, China. 



Berlin Museum: No. 1041 on Colpodes ruficeps MacLeay, Ceylon; No. 1034 on Lipicrus microce- 

 phalics Motsch. Japan; No. 1035 on Anchomenus validus, New Grenada; No. 103S on Megulonychus 

 sp., Port Natal, Africa; No. 1046 on Acanthogenius asteriscus Hope, Hong Kong; No. 1036 on Ancho- 

 menus oblongus Fabr., Europe; No. 1042 on Colpodes reflexus Chaud., Columbia; No. 1044 on C. atratus 

 Chd., Bogota, No. 1043 on C. sulcatus Chd., New Grenada. Sharp Collection; No. 1143 on Antispho- 

 drus Fairmairi Sch., Spanish Caves; No. 1166 on Anchomenus Faradayi Bates, New Zealand (typical); 

 No. 1160 on Dichochile subopacum, New Zealand; No. 1162 on Anchomenus Ofagoensis Bates, New 

 Zealand; No. 1163 on .4. montivagus Bates; N. Zealand; No. 1164 on A. latipennis, Aukland, N. Z. ; 

 No. 1165 on A. Helusi Sharp, Greymouth, N. Z. 



Hope Collection; No. 275 on Ony pterygia purpuratus Bogota; No. 352 on Stomis punicatus Pz., 



