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vars., whereof S. schmidtii (Schaiif.) is one ; and suggests that S, dissimilis 
(Schauf.) may also he only a var. of schreihersii (cf. 46 Jahr.-Ber, Schles. 
Gesellsch. p. 169 et seq.). 
Gautier des Cottes (Mittheil. schweiz. entom. Gesellsch. iii. p. 131, 
Aug. 1869) changes the specific name of his Calathus ruJicolUs to C. Erytthro- 
derus (sic), on account of 7'uJicolUs, Dej. He admits his error in referring C. 
rotimduius (Du V.) to piceus (Msh.); and proposes (p. 160) the generic name 
Omodactylus (sic) for the latter, in case its simple tarsi in both sexes should 
warrant the creation of a now genus for its reception. 
Calathifs minutus (G. des Cottes), angularis (Chevr.), and suhlesvis and uni- 
scriatus (Vuillef.) = /7rc^M05;«s (Dej.), G. des Cottes, Pet. nouv. Entom. no. 10 ; 
C, lioii'achclm (Vuillef., June 1866) = hipunctatus (G. d. Cottes, Feb. 1866), 
G. des Cottes, ibid. no. 12. 
Platynus frater (Lee.) = Agonum hremcoUe (Dej.), according to Chaudoir 
in litt. Leconte (Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 4th ser. iv. p. 373, note) demurs to 
this, and refers hrevicolle as a var. to P. fossiger; P. retr actus (Lee.) = Imis 
(lenum, Dej.), Zimm. Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc. ii. p. 244. 
Agonum. Leconte (Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc. ii. p. 248, note) gives the fol- 
lowing synonymy of North -American species, on Chaudoir’s authority : — A. 
nitidulum (Dej.) = cupripenne., var. ; Platynus frater (Lee.) = A. hrevicolle 
(Dej., cf. siqmi) ; A. chalceum (I^ec.) = cupremn (Dej.); O. crenulatus (Lee.) 
= A. striatopunctatum (Dej.), from which A. striatopunctatum (Lee.) is di- 
stinct ; A. stigmosum (Lee.) = octocolus (Mann.) ; P. retractus (Lee.) = A. 
sordens (Kirby, cf. suprd) ; A. picipenne (Kirby), var. c = lenum (Dej.). 
V. Heyden (IBerl. ent. Zeit. xiii. p. 64) reproduces Frivaldsky’s description 
of his Anchomenus hanaticus (Abhandl. ungar. Acad. 1866, p. 176, t. ix. f. 6), 
which seems a good species, near A. {Platynus') scrohiculalus (Fab.). 
iSqdwdrus paradoxus, sp. n., Joseph, 1. c. p. 266, Caves in Lower Camiola. 
Calathus uhagoni, sp. n., G. des Cottes, Pet. nouv. Entom. no. 12, 16th Dec, 
1869, Estremadura. 
Platynus fraterculus, sp. n., Leconte, l.c., Vancouver’s Island; P. ruhripes, 
sp. n., Zimm. 1. c. p. 244, north of the Potomac. 
Pogonides. 
Reiciie (Coleopt. Ilefte, v. p. 120) replies with some warmth to the criti- 
cisms of Kiesenwetter and Kraatz regarding his Patrohus napolconis, which 
he affirms to be quite distinct from excavatus, especially relying on the ovate 
shape of its elytra. 
Patrohus fulcratus, sp.n., Leconte, Ann. & Mag. of Nat. Hist. 4th ser. iv. 
p. 374, Vancouver’s Island; P. trochantericus, sp.n., Lee. 1. c. p. 376, North 
California. 
Trechides, 
PuTZEYS (Stett. ent. Zeitung, 31 Jalirg. 1870, but published 
in Nov. 18G9, pp. 7-48, Taf. 1) commences a general monograph 
of the Trechides by describing the eyed species, and proposes to 
exhaust the group in future memoirs. Reviewing the different 
arrangements of Latreille, Dejean, Erichson, Lacordaire, and 
