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et orsinii, differt tainen convexitate minore elytrorumque sculptura. Fem.minor magis attenuata opaoa.” From Mount Ararat , in Armenia.—3, Spho-drus armeniacus: “ Apterus niger elongatus, capite leevi occipite bi-iinpresso,thoraoe oblongo suboordato lateribus marginato in medio linea longitudinalisulcato, elyti-is oblongis subovatis striatis striis vage punctatis. AffinisSphodro elongato.” In moist woods of Armenia , not common. The twoCarabi are also figured.
Motschoulsky lias given Carabus laxuriosus, from Mount Taurus.(Guer. Mag. Zool. Ins. pi. 151, fig. 3.)
Kollar and Redtenbacher (Hug. Kaschm. 498) have described, Cymin-dis i-maculata (pi. 23, f. 3), Carabus caschmirensis (f. 4), Chlanius janthi-nus, Calathms angustatus , Selenophorus quadricollis, from Cashmere , andFeronia (Omaseus ) himalejica, from Massuri , in the Himalaya .
Helluo ( Acanthogenius) asteriscus, White (Ann. Nat. Hist, xiv, 422) isfrom Hong Kong .
Reiche (Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. ii, 391, pi. 7, f. 6, 5, 4) has given threeremarkable south African species, Craphipterus westwoodii , Anthia melly , andA. alveolata, all from Christmas Bay.
New American species are, Onypterygia thoreyi , Mannerh. (Bull. Mosc.869 note); Morio lafertei and Calosoma peregrinator, Guerin (Rev. Zool.254), from Mexico ; and Cordistes arcuatus and lafertei , Guer. (ibid. 9),from New Granada.
The last-named author (Mag. Zool. Ins. pi. 140) has figured Sphallomorphanitiduloides, a remarkable species from New Holland.
There remains to notice an article by Chaudoir (Bull. Mosc. 454.),‘ Observations sur quelques especes de Carabiques,’ &c., which, besides thegenera specified above, comprehends a variety of new species of other groups :Drypta elongata, from Senegal (a variety of Dr. dorsalis, Dej.); Galeritapallidicornis, Reiche, macrodera, enquicollis, from Columbia; Calleida bicolorand erythrodera, from Senegal ; C. marginicollis, from the Cape; C. cyani-pennis, country not specified; C. interrupta and nigriceps, from Brazil ; G.elegam, Kl., from Cuba (distinguished from rubricollis, Dej.); Anthiaoxygona, from the Cape; Aristas punctulatus , from Syria . It is remarked
that Calleida splendida , Gory, is auricollis, Lap.,-and Cychrus inter-
ruptus , Men., from California , the true ventricosus, Esch., while the speciesto which the latter name is applied by Menetries is new, and here describedas C. striato-punctatus, that Anchomemis valutas, Lafert., belongs to thegenus Stenogmthus, Chaud., and Anch. micans, Men, to the genus Scaphio-dactylus, Chaudoir.
[Curtis (Royal Agric. Soc. Journ. v, 224) has communicated the obser-vation that Fterostichus madidus is a great destroyer of wireworms, thenoxious larvse of the Elateridse.]