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INSECTA, COLEOrTERA. 
Amsodactylides Platt/ccelus, 'B\axich.y=:Feroma ; Tibai'izus, Cast., and Pac7u- 
dius, Chaud.,= Cratogaster ; Pristosia, Mots., = Calathtis ; Metallosomus, Mots., 
= Colpodes. 
Bedel, Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. (5) ii. p. 369 et seq., refers to the novel characters 
pointed out by Thomson in studying genera and species, adding observations 
on the importance of the pubescence and form of the limbs. 
Gilnicki, R. Z. (2) xxiii. pp. 466-480, pi. iv., gives a catalogue of the species 
found by T. Deyrolle in Asia Minor. 
Elaphrides. 
Elaphrus sibincus, Mots. : characters pointed out ; J5. dauricus (Mann.), 
A. Moraw., is apparently identical with it, and it is suggested to be a local 
race of E. cupreus, Solsky, Hor. Ent. Ross. viii. p. 232. 
Car abides. 
Nehria complanata : larva described by Lalleoiant, in Reiche's Cat. Col. 
Alg. p. 2, note. That of N. andalusiaca, Ramb., briefly noted : id. ibid. 
Procerus colchicus, Mots., ?=scabrosus, var. ; Carabus bonvouloiri, Chaud., 
cJ described, pi. iv. fig. 4; C. ponticus, E. Deyr., redescribed, pi. iv. fig. 1, C. 
gilnichii, E. Deyr., pi. iii. fig. 3, redescribed, and objections made to Chaudoir's 
opinion that it is a var. of C. scowitzii ; C theophilii, E. Deyr., pi. iii. fig. 2, 
redescribed ; a var. of C. cribrattis, Quens., from Trebizond, pi. iv. fig. 2 ; 
C. robustus, E. Deyr., redescribed, pi. iii. fig. 1 : Gilnicki, R. Z. (2) xxiii. 
p. 468 et seq. 
Carabus withii, Deyr., ex. tt/p., = Uneatus, Dej., 5 var., teste Sharp: Perez 
Areas, Act. Soc. Esp. i. p. 7. C. lineatus is certainly distinct from splendens : 
de la Brulerie, R. Z. (2) xxiii. p. 224, and Pet. Nouv. no. 45, p. 179. Kraatz 
especially notes the record by Seidlitz (Fauna Bait. p. 7) of C. sjjlendens at 
Polloper, 35 versts from Dorpat : B. E. Z. xvi. p. 240. Faust, Hor. Ent. Ross, 
viii. Rev. Bibl. p. xi, considers this capture purely accidental.'' 
Reduplication of right intermediate leg in C. splendens, and of left antenna 
of C. monilis, recorded by Lartigue, Bull. Soc. Ent. Fr. (5) ii. p. Ixi. 
Of about 50 species inhabiting Eastern Siberia, only one (C. gramdatus) is 
found also in Western Europe ; though several have parallel forms : H. W. 
Bates, P. E. Soc. 1872, p. viii. Spanish species are mostly confined to the 
Iberian peninsula : D. Sharp, ibid. 
Coptolabrus pustulifer, Luc. : & $ from Moupin, Thibet, redescribed by 
the author, Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. (5) ii. p. 293 ; <^ figured, pi. xiv. fig. 12. 
Calosoma sycophanta found in quantity on putrefying human corpse near 
Rheims : Follias, Pet. Nouv. no. 53, p. 212. 
C. inquisitor found on broom, and Carabus intricatus on sloe : Joube, Pet. 
Nouv. no. 55, p. 220. 
Nebria mandibularis, p. 51, N. Persia?, chinensis, p. 52, China: II. W. 
Bates, Ent. M. M. ix., spp. nn. 
Leistus angidatus, sp. n., La Brnlorie, Pet. Nouv. no. 45, p. 179, Spain. 
Carabus rifensis, Fairmaire, R. Z. (2) xxiii. p. 60, Morocco (Feb. 1872) ; 
C. elephas (?=:riffensis, Fairm. ; cf. Pet. Nouv. no 51, p. 205) and olcesii, p. Iii, 
Riff', aitriculatus, Asturia^? : Putzeys, CR. Ent. Bolg. xv. : spp. nn. 
