( 65 ) V. A List of the Cicindelidse, Carabidag and Staphy-linidse collected hy Mr. J. J. Walker, R.N., F.L.S., in the region of the Straits of Gibraltar. By George Charles Champion, F.Z.S. [Read December 1st, 1897.] In the Transactions of the Entomological Society for 1891, pp. 375 — 401, I gave a list of Heteromerous Coleoptera collected by Mr. Walker in the region of the Straits of Gibraltar. The present paper contains a list of the Cicin-delidae, Carabidae, and Staphylinidse, forming part of the same collection. It has been prepared with the assistance of M.M. Bedel and Fauvel, both of whom are engasred at the present tmie m the publication of a list of the N. African species of these families, M. Bedel with the Cicindelidse and Carabidae and M. Fauvel with the Staphy-linidse. A considerable portion of their work (that of M. Bedel having been commenced in March 1895, and that of M. Fauvel during the present year) has now been published. The chief object of this paper is to give a list of the species inhabiting the European side of the Straits, as well as of those found on the N. African side. At the end of the Carabidae, a list of the N. African species not met with by Mr. Walker is inserted, compiled from M. Bedel's Catalogue* as far as published, and from MS. notes kindly communicated by him. In this family a considerable number of species do not cross the Straits, some conspicuous forms being confined to the African side (e.g. Casnonia olivieri, &c.) and others {Carahus fa'cieri^ Aciiiojncs gigante^is, Percus politics, Aptinus disjjlosor, &c.) to the Spanish side. Since the publication of the Anda-lusian lists of Rambur (1842), Rosenhauer (1856), Dieck (1870), V. Heyden (1870), &c., many additional species of Carabidae have been detected in the country bordering the Straits of Gibraltar, My own researches in Andalusia * Catalogue Raisonnd des Col^opteres du Nord de I'Afrique (Maroc,Algerie, Tunisie et Tripolitaine), avec notes sur la Faune des lies Canaries et de Madere. TRANS. ENT. SOC. LOND. 1898. — PART I. (APRIL.) 5
V. A List of the CicindelidaB, Carabidæand Staphy-linidæcollected by Mr. J. J. Walker, R.N., F.L.S., in the region of the Straits of Gibraltar. By George Charles Champion, F.Z.S
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