ZOOLOGICAL LITERATURE. 
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JEcarthrus (Lee.), pp. 2G0-261 ; Antarclia (Lej.), pp. 269-272 \ Apoto- 
mopterus (Hope), pp. 282-283 j imd Ceroglossus (Sol.), pp. 283-285. Mot- 
scliulslcy also cliaracterizes the following genera, or refers to species belong- 
ing to them : — Logarus (Chaud.), p. 243 ; Platyderus (rubricollis, Marsh., 
said to be distinct from dejv'essa, Dej.), p. 248 ; Trirammatus (Sol.), p. 252 ; 
Denis (Motsch.), p. 255; Pcecilus (Bon.), p. 256; Sogines (Steph.), p. 257 ; 
Eunj peris (Motsch.), p. 266; Pseudoergohius (Motsch.), p. 267 ; and Molops 
(grcecus^ Ohaiid.), p- 260. 
Crotch (Entomologist, iii. pp. 107-108) refers to the following British 
species of this subfamily : — Calathus Jiavipes =^fulvipes (Gy 11.) ; C. mollis = 
subspecies of melunoccphalus ] C. roiimdicollis (Bej.) = /nm/s (Marsh, nee 
Linn.) ; Taphria vivalis (111.) J Anchomemts junceus (Scop.) ; A. jmsiilt/s 
(Schaum) ; A. thoreyi (Bej.); Pterostichus cupreus^ of which iiffinis and 
versicolor are varieties; P. orinomum = vitreus, var. ; Amur a eurynota (Bej.) 
= acuminata (Baylc.) ; and A. ohsoleta. 
Amur a alpina (Fab.) is indicated as a British species by T. Blackburn, 
Ent. M. Mag. iii. p. 92. 
Platyderus. Chaudoir publishes (Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. s6r. tome vi. 
pp. 105-114) a monographic revision of the species of this genus (= Lisso- 
tarsus, Chaud.), of Avhich he indicates the characters, and calls attention to 
the fact that Loxandrus (Leconte) differs from it only in the absence of the 
ridge round the posterior extremity of the prosternum between the anterior 
COX03. This character, he thinlvS, will be found insullicient, and then the 
Loxandri must be united with Platyderus. Chaudoir recognizes 19 species 
of Platyderus, including P. varians (Schauf.), Argutor umhratus (Menetr.), 
and nemoralis (Graells) ; Arg. cincticollis (Chevr.) = lusitanicus (Bej.) ; A. 
depressa (Bej.) ; and Feronia jugicola (Fairm.) = rujicollis (Marsh.) ; Feronia 
sicana (Fairm.) = canaliculatus (Chaud.) ; and F. mimita (lleiche) = neapo- 
litanus (Reich e), var. A variety of P. nemoralis, or distinct species, is indi- 
cated (p. 110), for which, if established, Chaudoir proposes the name of sub- 
jyunctatus. Lissotarsus reticulatus (Chaud.) is a species allied to P. rujicollis •, 
but the unique specimen has been nearly destro5’^ed (p. 114). 
Perez Areas indicates that Ilaptoderus cantabricus (Schauf.) = Argutor 
nemoralis (Graells), and Platyderus varians (Schauf.) = A. montanellus 
(Graells). Bull. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1866, p, xxxv. 
Bethe (Stett. ent. Zeit. 1866, pp. 196-202) discusses the systematic posi- 
tion of Argutor nemoralis and A. montanellus (Graells), placed by dillerent 
authors in the genera Platyderus and Ilaptoderus. lie indicates as a further 
distinction between these genera the presence in Platyderus of a well-m.arked 
scutellar stria, which is either entirely wanting or quite rudimentary in Ilap- 
toderus, and comes to the conclusion that A. montanellus is a species of Platy- 
derus distinct from lusitanicus (Bej.) andyf«7Vws (Schauf.), and that A. nemo- 
ralis belongs to Ilaptoderus. Diagnoses of these species and of II. cantabricus 
(Schauf.) are given. 
Trechus obtusus (Erichs.) is regarded by Crotch (Entomologist, iii. p. 109) 
as an alpine form of T. minutus (Fab.). Crotch also remarks on the genus 
Perilejitus. 
Pterostichus sujicrciliosus (Say). Characters indicated by Leconte, Proc. 
Acad. Nat. Sci. Phil. 1866, p. 364. 
The following species from Finmark are noticed by L. von Ileyden (Stett, 
