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Bedel records rare French Coleoptera (ibid. pp. xxiii, xxx, xxxiv-xxxix). 
Bellier db la CHAViaNERiR (ibid. pp. xliii, xlvii) records Coleoptera 
taken at Digne, Lower Alps. 
Abeille de Perrin (ibid. p. xlvii) adds six species to the list of French 
Coleoptera. 
CiiAisirioN (Ent. IM. M. vi. p. 231, vii. pp. 12 and 130), Taylor (ibid. 
vii. p. 80), Morley (ibid. p. 107), Moncreaff (ibid. p. 154), and Gorham 
(ibid. p. 155) record rare British Coleoptera. 
IIiSLOP (ibid. p. 10) and E. A. Waterhouse (poid. p. 81) record rare 
Scotch Coleoptera. 
ClCINHELIDyE. 
P. DE Borre (Ann, E. Belg. xiii. pp. 139-145) makes some general ob- 
servations on the classification and geographical distribution of this family, 
tending to corroborate the Darwinian theory. 
Alterations in the colour of Cicindela hybrida and C. carnjiestris, caused by 
artificial means, are referred to in Tijdschr. Ent. 2nd ser. Deel v. pp. 178 & 
170. 
Amhlychila piccolominii, Ileiche, = Say : Lee., Ann. N. H. ser. 
4, vi. p. 402. 
Cicindela dongolensis, King, \^^'2j=iJimhriata, Dej., 1831, Crotch, C. H. 
vi. p. 95; C. obliquata, Kirby, kirhyi, Lec., = v?//< 7 am, Say, Leconte, 1. c. 
p. 395 ; C. tarsalis, hec., = blanda, Dej., Leconte, ibid. p. 402. 
Ballion (Bull. Mosc. xlii. p, 211) corroborates Gemm, and v. Harold’s 
reference of Cicindela yra7ivlata, Gebl., as a syn. to C. hirmeisteri, Fisch., 
the latter having about two months priority. 
Carabihas. 
Elaphrides. 
Elaphrus poliUts, JuQC.,=clah'viUei, Kby., E. californicus^ Mann.,=:ew^mnc- 
dius, Kby. : Lee., Ann. N. H. ser. 4, vi. p. 396. 
Omophi'on nitens is to be referred to Leconte, and not to Chaudoir : Lee., 
ibid. p. 402. 
Carabides. 
V. Heyden (B. E. Z. xiv. Beiheft, p. 55) tabulates the distribution of 
Spanish and Portuguese mountain spp. of Carabus, Nebria, and Leistus. 
Bargagli (Bull. Ent. Ital. ii. p. 269) notes the larva and perfect insect of 
Calosoma sycophanta decimating the larvae of Lipai'is dispar in Sardinia. 
Goubert (Pet. Nouv. 15, p. 54) records a remarkable var. of Carabus mor- 
billosus from Kabylia. 
Lucas (Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 4® s^r. x. Bull. p. Iv) records Nebria complanata 
(L.) var, from Brittany. 
Frey-Gessner (Mitth. schw. ent. Ges. iii. pp, 210-215) gives alpine 
localities for and general particulars concerning Nebria escheri and hremp 
Heer, and Leistus monta7i7is, Steph. 
Caloso7na irregular e, Walk.,=ie/?eW 2 ««i, Lee., var.; Callistlienes phnelioides, 
Walk., zi7n7ne7'man7ii, Lee., Say; Carabus 6^co/or, AValk.,= Ca/o- 
so777a laqueatum, Lee. : Lee. Ann. N. H. ser. 4, vi. p. 399. Cychrus ge7'7iiariy 
