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Gautier des Cottes remarks (Mitth. schweiz. ent. Gesellsch. ii. pp. 168- 
161) upon various species of this family omitted or classed as varieties in De 
Marseul’s last catalogue, which ho criticises severely. 
A note by Putzeys, with remarks by Weyers, on some Oarabidse newly 
discovered in Belgium, is published in the Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg. x. Oomptes 
Rendus, pp. vii-viii. The most noticeable is the Swedish Bemhidium ni(jri- 
come (Gyll.). Weyers adds four more species, 1. c. p. xii. 
Roelofs publishes a list of the Carabidie collected in September 1865 on the 
shores of the Zuiderzee. The list includes only 34 species (Tijdschr. voor 
Ent. 2nd ser. ii. pp. 31-32). 
Carabides. 
Notiophilus. Putzeys publishes (Mem. Soc. Roy. Liege, 2® 
ser. i. pp. 153-166) a note upon the European species of this 
genus, followed hy a synoptical table and short characters of the 
species contained in Chaudoir^s collection, and a list of all the 
described species, with indications of their synonymy. Of the 
European forms he describes the variations of the following spe- 
cies : — N. aquaticus (Linn.), N. palustris (Duft.), N. rufipes 
(Curt.), N. biguttatus (Fab.), N, 4i~punctatus (Lej.), N.punctu- 
latus (Wesm.), and N. geminatus (Dej.) ; to these must be added, 
as distinct species, N. strigifrons (Baudi) and N, laticoUis 
(Chaud.) . 
Perty (Mitth. naturf. Ges. in Bern, 1867) describes : — a specimen of Brocei'us 
scahrosus (Fsih,') with a tubercular outgrowth at the end of the right anterior 
femur (p. 305) j one of Carabus granulatus (ibid, and fig. 2) with greatly ab- 
breviated jelytra, and another (p. 307 and fig. 3) with the antennse entirely ab- 
sent^ one of C. morbillosus (ibid.) with a vesicular inflation of the right ely- 
tron } and one of C. auratus (ibid, and fig. 4) with the left antenna) cleft in 
its apical portion. 
Carabus schbnherri (Fisch.) and C. zahharschevskii (Motsch.), as European 
species, noticed by Kraatz, Berl. ent. Zeitschr. 1867, p. 406. The variety of 
the latter which occurs at Samara is C. tscJdegovii (Mann.), according to 
Chaudoir. 
Damaster. Notes on this genus by Lewis, Ent. M. Mag. iii. p. 189, & iv. p. 18. 
Calosoma curtisii. Notes on the habits of this species are published by 0. 
A. A¥ilson. The insect is always found near cattle, and is believed by 
Wilson to lay its eggs under dry cow-dung. Proc. Ent. Soc. 1867, pp. Ixxii- 
Ixxiii. 
Horn notices (Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil. vi. p. 290) that the Cychri of Cali- 
fornia emit an acrid fluid from the anus, but without any explosion. 
Metrius contractus (Esch.). Habits noticed by Horn, Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil, 
vi. p. 290. 
Carabus aumonti (Luc.). Ernest Cotty gives an account of his unsuccess- 
ful search for this species in Western Algeria. Mem. Soc. Linn, du Nord 
Fr. 1866, pp. 103-165. 
Carabus cancellatus. On the habits of the larva. Lucas, Bull. Soc. Ent. 
Fr. 1867, pp. Ixiii-lxiv. 
Procerus tauricus (Pall). Gernet describes and figures the larva of this 
species. Horae Soc. Ent. Ross. v. p. 8, pi. 1. fig. 1. 
