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and C. ioscelis, Hope (Proceed. Ent. Soc. p. 45), from Port Essington, 
in the north of New Holland. 
Schmidt of Stettin has made some interesting observations on the 
larvae of the Cic. campestris (Ent. Zeit. p. 270), from which it appears, 
that by night the larva leaves its habitation for prey. The pupa is also 
for the first time described and figured, figs. 9-11. 
Carabici. — Rosenhauer (Die Lauf und Schwimmkafer Erlangens, mit 
besonderer Beriicksichtigung ihres Vorkommens und ihres Verhaltnisses 
zu denen eiuiger anderer Staaten Europas, Erlangen, 1842), and Sufirian 
(Die Caraben des Regierungsbezirks Arensberg, verglichen mit denen 
der Mark Brandenburg in Germ. Zeitschrift. iv. p. 149), have made 
some important contributions to the distribution of the Carabi (including 
the Cicindelidce) in Germany. The former has given a careful list of 
the species, with important remarks on their occurrence, and a compari- 
son of the Fauna of Paris, Switzerland, Brandenburg, Sweden, and Lap- 
land. The latter, on the other hand, goes very profoundly and carefully 
into the comparison with the Brandenburg Fauna. In general, the Mark 
is richer by fifty-five species than the Arnsberg district, which wants 
the genera Omophron, Licinus, Masoreus, Cephalotes ; whilst the genera 
Callistus and Olisthopus are present, which are not to be found in the 
Mark [Olisthopus rotundatus may, perhaps, have been found, at least I 
have met with it in Pomerania ; but it appears to like a clayey soil, of 
which there is very little, at least in the neighbourhood of Berlin). 
The Carahi, according to my experience, are, for the most part, very 
constant to one soil. The Fauna of Erlangen, where there is great 
variety of soil, appears to confirm this. It is richer by twenty-seven 
species than that of Arnsberg ; and although they agree in having fewer 
species altogether than Brandenburg, yet it diiiers from the Arnsberg 
Fauna in being richer than it in most of the families ; only the Ela- 
phrini, Licinini, and Chlceniini, have one, the Scaritini and Ancho- 
menini, two species less. Whilst none of the species, native to Bran- 
denburg, are missed, the Erlangen region has, besides, Callistus and 
Olisthopus, also Polystichus. 
A remarkable fact, in Sufirian’s treatise, is the presence of the Ca- 
rdbus nodulosus in the Arnsberg Wood. His information on the pre- 
sence of the Car. purpurascens, which, in Western Germany, represents 
the Eastern C. violaceus, deserves all attention. He considers them as 
one species. According to his statement, both are present at Mainz ; 
and, according to Schmidt, C. violaceus is constantly found on hilly stony 
ground, C. purpurascens in moist meadows. They are also to be found 
in the Harz, where the reporter can add, that an intermediate species, 
0. exasperatus, Duft., of which we have a series in the Berlin collection, 
is also found ; the extreme specimens of it are not to be distinguished, 
the one from C. violaceus proper, the other from C. purpurascens. 
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