1890.] E. T. Atkiuson — Catalogue of the Carabidce. 5 
and contenting ourselves with the simple method of numbering the 
tribes or groups, instead of naming them.’ As pointed out by Mr. Sharp, 
the number of tribes, or groups of genera, in each sub-family is greater 
than those given by Dr. Horn, whose investigations refer mainly to tho 
species of North America. Mr. Sharp also remarks that, in the case of 
many of the tribes adopted by Dr. Horn, that writer makes use of the 
Bame names for them as have been used by his predecessors, although 
giving to those names a widely different extension or meaning. Though 
this is the usual plan, it gives to classifications a false appearance of 
accord and permanence, and also, by giving to the names the sanction of 
long use, tends to make them appear in the eyes of many of more 
importance than they are in fact. With these remarks I thoroughly 
concur, and any one who has had to study the literature of tho Carabidce, 
will, I am sure, endorse them. In preparing this paper, I have found 
that it would be possible almost to count as a group* each genus, and I 
consider the best course is to arrange the genera as near as possible in 
the groups that have been established with some authority, and then to 
give fairly full references!, which those who have the knowledge and 
material can hereafter work out for themselves. I possess neither the 
time nor the material necessary for this purpose, and my object is merely 
to help others by giving a list of the recorded species from the Oriental 
Region.]; 
Bates H. 
On the group Pericalini : — Ent. Mon. Mag., vi. 1869. p. 69. 
„ „ Lachnophorini : — l.c. viii. 1871. p. 29. 
Biologia Centrali-Amer., Col. i (i), 1881. 
Bonelli, E. A. 
‘Observations entomologiques,’ in Memo ires de 1’ Academie Imperiale des 
Sciences, Literature et Beaux-arts, classe de Physique et de Mathematique, pour les 
annees, 1809-10. Turin, 1809, p. 21 : Hid., 1813 p. 442. [My copy does not 
contain the tab. syn. quoted by authors.] 
Brulle, A. 
Histoire naturelle des Insectes, par M M Audouin et Brulle. (Coleopteres). 
iv-vi. Paris, 1834. 
* Let any one compare the notes in the Zoological Record for a series of years, 
and he will at once appreciate the extent of the existing confusion, which the 
Zoologischer Jahrctbericht got over by giving the genera in alphabetical order, 
t A list follows of the principal papers of Chaudoir, Putzeys, Bates, and others 
on classification. 
I A few extra-Oriental species, marked by an asterisk, are given from the collection 
made by the Yarkand Mission of which the types are in the Indian Museum, The 
species identified in the Indian Museum have the precise locality in angular brackets. 
