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Carabides. ■ - 
Procnfstes, Gautier des Cottes lias published (Rev. et Mag. de Zool. 1860/ 
pp. 279-293 and 363-374) a monograph of this genus, which he regards as 
sufficiently distinguished from Carahiis. He characterizes the genus, and in- 
dicates its differences from Carabus in detail. The species described, by 
autliors are 33 in number j the author describes 11, and cites 4 which Tie 
has not seen; the remainder are regarded as identical with, or varieties of; 
those described. The species admitted by Gautier des Cottes are : — P. 
coriaceus (Linn.), inch sjjretus (Dej.); P. rugosus (Dej.), inch cxcdvatus,. 
(Charp.), (Dej.), Idndermanni (Waltl), vicinus (Men^tr.), and cam-, 
boides (Waltl) ; P. ccrisyi (Dej.), inch foudrasii (Dej.) and punctulatus 
(Reiche) ; P. tahjschensis (Fakh) = /;4c^t/05MS (Zubk.) ; P. assimilis (Cristof.), 
^thurkii (Schauni) ; P. jnmctatus (La^.)==dtipo7icIicln ; P,. im- 
jyresms (King) =cJievrolatn (Cristof.) ; P. asjjei'attts (Muls.) ; P. clyj^eatils. 
(Ada,ms)—Jischeri (Paid.) ; P. baiionii (Dej.); and P. anatolicus (Cliaud.) = ^ 
oh/mpicus (Redt.). The species unknown to the author are P. mopsucrencB, 
(Peyron.), P. obtntus (Chaud.), and P. deplaiiaius and abhasicus (Motsch.). 
Gautier des Cottes also describes and names the following forms as varieties) 
of knoAvn species: — P. sphodiinus—rugosusy var. ; and P. nitmis and impu- 
dicus — cc7'isyi vars. 
Motschulsky (Bull. Soc. Nat. Mosc. xxxviii. pt. 2) gives descriptive and 
synonymic notes on the species of the restricted genus Carabus in his col- 
lection (pp. 285-294), and refers to the following genera of this group, or to, 
species belonging to them : — Alpceus (inacrocephalus, Motsch.), p. 273; Meya-. 
dontiis (Soh), p. 298; Proco'us (scah'osus and allies), p. 299; Callisthenus and 
CalUsphama (Motsch.), p. 300; Calosoma (as restricted by him; see his new 
genera, p. 295), p. 309; Damastcr {niyipcnnis, Motsch., d, with 3 joints of 
anterior tarsi dilated), p. 310 ; Cychrus {torulosus, Fisch.), ibid. ; and Irichroa 
(Newm.), p. 312. ; 
Crotch (Entomologist, iii. p. 106) treats Notiophihts palustris as a “ sub- 
species ” of N. aquaticus., and N. d-punctatus as similarly related to N. biyut- 
tatus. N. substi’iatus (Wat.) belongs to the type of N. yeminatus (Dej.). 
Calosoma sycophanta is regarded by Crotch as accidentally introduced into. 
Britain. Carabus axiratus and cancdlatus are treated as doubtful British 
species. 
Lucas notices what he regards as the $ of Daxnastcr blapsoidcs (Kolh).. 
Bull. Soc. Ent. Fr. I860, p. xxv. 
According to Gautier des Cottes (Bull. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1860, p. xvii.) the 
Carabus lohitei (Deyr.) from the south of Spain =C. splende7is,YiiV, trobcx'ti 
(Dej.). 
Perez Areas states that previously to Gautier des Cottes he had united 
Carabus 77iac7'occphalus (Dej.) and C. (Chevr.), and had also joined 
to these C. brabeus (Schauf.). Bull. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1800, p. xxxiv. 
L. von Heyden remarks on several species of this subfamily from Finmark, 
and notes their variations. The species referred to are Elaplirus cup7'eusy 
var. arcticus, Ca 7 'abus catenulatus and ylabratus.) Nebria yijUcnhalii, var. arctica, 
and Leistus rufescens. Heyden also notices a very convex variety of 
the 5 of C. ylabratus— C. yibbosus (Ziegl.). Stett. ent. Zeit. 1800, pp. 250- 
251. 
Cax'abus lueasii (Fairm. et Coq.) is distinct from C. lucasii (Deyr.) ; the 
