( 145 ) III. Notes on Synomjmy and on some Types of Oriental Carabidae in various foreign collections. By H. E. Andrewes. [Read February 2nd, 1921.] In May 1920, thanks to the kindness of M. Rene Oberthiir, I had the opportunity of examining a considerable number of the types of Carabidae in his collection; this includes, beside other material, the collections formed by Dejean, Chaudoir, and H. W. Bates, the principal authors in the group. I have to thank M. Oberthiir — and I do so very cordially — not only for allowing me to examine his collect tions, but also for the personal assistance he was kind enough to give me during my visit to him at Rennes. Some of the results of my examination are embodied in the following notes on synonymy, etc., and, as a further result, I am describing a few new species from among those which I found to have been misidentified. As I shall have to refer rather frequently to my paper published in these Transactions in 1919, I shall, to save space, merely give the date and the page. Calosoma scabripenne Chaud. (Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1869, 371) == C. indicum Hope (1919, 171). \ien my former paper appeared, I was unaware of Dr. Roeschke's remarks on the genus Calosoma in Ento-mologische Nachrichten 1900. I see that he there treats C. scabripenne Chaud., as a variety of indicum, and both of these as races of C. maderae F. I also expressed the opinion (p. 202) that C. orientale Hope = C. squamigerum Chaud. Dr. Roeschke is of opinion that Hope's species is identical with C. imhricatum Klug. I have in my collection some examples of this species from the Cape Verde Is., and there are others in the British Museum from the Persian Gulf, together with a solitary very dull specimen from Karachi. It is not unusual to find N.E. African species reappearing in Sind : Calosoma olivieri Dej. occurs not only in Baluchistan, but as far up the Indus Valley as Peshawar. The species of Carabidae inhabiting the sandy tract stretching from Egypt to Sind are, however, quite imlikely to extend their habitat so far south, or so high up as Poona, and I cannot TRANS. ENT. SOC. LOND. 1921. — PARTS I, II. (OCT.) L
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