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less wide, joints of tarsi slender and triangular, and point of prosternum 
bidentate. S. corpulentiim, sp. n., id. I. c. p. 22, Zulu country. 
Cratocerides. 
Chaudoir, Ann. Ent. Belg. xv. pp. 16-21, notices tlie proposed dis- 
integration of this subfamily as proposed by Lacordaire, and which he 
considers to comprise only Cratocerus, JBrachidius, and Basolia, of which he 
monographs the species. In Gemminger and v. Harold's Catalogue, Basolia 
attenuata should be attributed to Chaudoir, and the following corrections 
are made : — B. nitida, Sol., = lucanoides, Mann. ; B. hrasiliensis, Gray, = 
elongata, Chaud. 
Brachidius corpulentus, sp. n., id. I. c. p. 20 (no locality given). 
Anisodactylides. 
Anisodactylm hinotatus. Larva described ; Rupertsberger, Verh. z.-b. 
Wien, xxii. pp. 575 & 576. 
Amarotypus, g. n., H. W. Bates, Ent. M. M. ix. p. 50. Allied to Migadops, 
but with facies of Amara, and with middle tarsi generally dilated. A. ed- 
wardsi, sp. n., id. I. c. p. 51, New Zealand. 
Anisodactylus orientalis, sp. n., des Cottes, Pet. Nouv. no. 56, p. 223, Con- 
stantinople (brief diagnosis only). 
Harpalides. 
Acinopus nitidus, F&ld., = subquadratus, Br. : A. Icevigatus, Men.^^ minutus, 
Br., both species being distributed over the greater part of the eastern basin 
of the Mediterranean : Gilnicki, R. Z. (2) xxiii. p. 477. A. gutturosus, Buq., 
is wrongly associated with megacephalus^ Kossi : Reiche, Cat. Col. Alg. 
p. 12, note. 
Acmastes haroldi, Schm., recorded from Andalusia. Perez Areas, Act. Soc. 
Esp, i. p. 22. 
Harpalus caliginosus, Say, extends westward over all obstacles to the base 
of the Sierra Nevada, but is not yet recorded from California proper : Horn, 
in Hayden's Geol, Surv. Montana, p. 384. H, nigritarsis, Sahib., var. by is 
redescribed and considered a good species : Thomson, Opusc. Ent. (iv.), 
p. 365. 
Mizotrechus, g. n., H. W. Bates, Ent. M. M. viii. p. 199. Allied to Tre- 
chicus, Lee, but with dentate mentum, thick tarsal joints, and square 
thorax; also approaches Diploharpus in mandibles and maxillae. M. novem- 
striatus and leevilateris, ibid., ozesnoides and prcecisus, p. 200, Amazons, Icsvigatus, 
Vera Cruz, vixstriatus, R. Janeiro, p. 200 : id. I. c, spp. nn. 
Lachnaces, g. n,, id. ibid. p. 201. Facies of Olisthopus or Badister, with 
surface of Loxandrns, but really allied to Euccerus. L. sericeus,^ ibid., olistho^ 
poides and badistrinus, p. 202, Ega : id. I. c, spp. nn. 
Acinopus medius, sp. n., Reiche, c. p. 12, note, Algeria. 
Dichirotrichus barbarus, sp. n., Leder, B. E. Z. xvi. p. 137, Oran. 
Harpalus janthinus (? sp. n.), Des Cottes, Pet. Nouv. no. 56, p. 223, Taurus ; 
H. insignis (do.), id. I. c. p. 224, Caucasus [mere indications of a diagnosis 
in each case]; H. arenicola (Wesmael), Sauveur, Ann. Ent. Belg. xv. 
