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COLEOPTERA. 
Kiist. ; B. versicolor^ Duv., = menetriesi, KoL, var. ; B. cereum and agile^ 
Duv., siibstriatum and armeniacum, Chaud., seriatum and caucasicum^ 
Mots., angusticolle^ M4n., = grajpii, GylL, ex. typ. ; B. leucoscelis, Chaud., 
= lampros, Hbst. ; B. rugiceps, Reiche & S., ^curtuluruj Duv., = ambi- 
guum, Dej., var. ; B. hispanicum^ Ramb., = A-fossulatum, Schm., rugiceps, 
Chaud., binotatum and glabricolle^ Mots., = bipunctatum, L. : C. P. de 
la Brhlerie, Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. (5) v. pp. 438-448. 
Tacky s emarginatus, sulcatus, acaroides, politus, umbrosus, impressi' 
pennis, Jlaviculus, and suturalis, Mots., additionally characterized from 
types '; J. Putzeys, Ann. Mus. Genov, vii. pp. 737 & 738. 
’Bembidium wingatii, Bland, = oblongulum, Mann., which is an Ameri- 
zus ; Tachys oopterus^ Chaud., = ventricosus^ Lee. ; T. rivularis, Mann., 
= nanus, Gyll. ; T. occultus, Lee., = granarius, Dej.; G. H. Horn, 
Tr. Am. Ent. Soc. v. pp. 131 & 132. 
Bembidium inustum, Duv., taken in Paris and Montreux, in the streets ; 
C. Brisout de Barneville and C. P. de la Brhlerie, Bull. Soc. Ent. Fr. (5) 
V. pp. cii. & cxi. 
Notaphus niloticus, H. W. Bates, nec Dej., is renamed batesi ; J. Putzeys, 
CR. Ent. Belg. xviii. p. lii. 
Tachys coracinusy p. 739, Borneo, subfasciatus, ibid., unisfriatus, p. 740, 
interpunctatus, p. 741, sulcato-punctatus, p. 742, Celebes, acuticollis, p. 740, 
Aru, ancepSy p. 742, E. India, sulculatus, p. 743, Hong Kong, bi-oculatus, 
ibid., arcuatus, p. 744, Ceylon, ceneus, p. 744, plagiatus, pictipennis, p. 745, 
Macassar, cinctus, p. 746, Amboina, cruciger and epkippiatus, p. 747, 
Macassar, J. Putzeys, 1. c. ; T. crux, id. Deutsche E. Z. 1876, p. 363, 
Hungary ; T. insularis, E. Ragusa, Bull. Ent. Ital. vii. p. 252, Isle of 
Pantellaria : spp. nn. 
Limnastus (script, wrongly by Motschoulsky ; recharacterized) 
l<xus, sp. n., C. P. de la Brhlerie, 1. c. p. 436, R. Jordan. 
Bembidium cardionotum, J. Putzeys, Z. c. p. 363, Hungary ; B. {Pery- 
phus) culminicola, p. 442, Lebanon, jordanense, p. 443, R. Jordan, C. P. 
de la Brhlerie, Z. c. : spp. nn. 
Cillenum albertisi, sp. n., J. Putzeys, Z. c. p. 748, New Guinea. 
Dytiscid^. 
Cnemidotus rotundatus in North France; Bull. Soc. Ent. Fr. (5) v. 
p. ceix. 
Dytiscus marginalis. Renewed experiments prove that the nervous 
centre governing the wings and swimming legs is the instigator of 
respiration ; and Baudelot’s experience (from IdtXYaotLibellula), that the 
separation of the metathorax from the abdominal ganglions did not 
affect respiration, is not considered to affect tl^e question : E. Faivre, 
C. R. Ixxx. pp. 739-741. A further account of experiments on rotatory 
movements in this insect, and the bearing upon them of the encephalic 
nervous centres ; id. 1. c. p. 1149. Also on the functions of the frontal 
ganglion ; id. 1. c. pp. 1332. On the peculiar disposition of the contrac- 
tile fibres of the dorsal vessel, and the function of other parts of the 
circulatory apparatus, c/. Von Graber [anted, p. 277]. Observations on 
