ARTICLE IV 



REPORT ON COLEOPTERA OF THE FAMILY CARABIDAE 



By H. E. Andrewes 

 (Received February 7, 1934) 



The Carabidae collected by Mr. G. Evelyn Hutchinson in the course of the Yale North 

 India Expedition to Ladak comprised seventeen species, of which four are new ; an enumera- 

 tion of these will be found below with some notes on distribution, and following this, the 

 descriptions of the new species. As my Catalogue of Carabidae (part 18) in the series Cata- 

 logue of Indian Insects, published by the Indian Government, has so recently appeared, in 

 which full references are given for all the hitherto described Indian species, original refer- 

 ences only are given here. Mr. Hutchinson has kindly allowed me to retain the type specimens 

 of the four new species, which will ultimately be placed in the British Museum. 



Of the seventeen species collected by the Expedition, six are also found in other parts 

 of the world, the remainder being endemic. All these six species are found also in Turkestan 

 and three of them are fairly comnKjnly distributed through the palaearctic region, one extend- 

 ing its habitat as far- as the western states of North America. While there are at least several 

 species of Carabidae common to the countries lying within the sandy belt which stretches 

 from Morocco to Sind, some reaching as far as the North West Frontier Province, there 

 is no evidence of them in this collection, the region explored being apparently both too distant 

 and at too great an elevation, but the connexion with the Central Asian fauna is more apparent. 



It is interesting to note that the four genera found at high altitudes were also met with 

 by the Mount Everest Expedition at their base camp on the Rongbuk glacier (16,500 feet), 

 and one species, Amara brucei Andr., was taken in considerable numbers by both expeditions 

 up to 17,000 feet. 



The enumeration of the species follows: 



1. AV^m /'jaMWfO/'Mo Solsky in Fedchenko's Reise in Turkestan ii. pt. 5. 1874, p. 12; 

 • Andrewes, Fauna of Brit. Ind., Col. Caralx i. 1929, pp. 114 and 118. 



Ka.shmir: Kiuhnus, Wular Lake, .SlOO feet, 17-IV-32, 1 ex. 



The species has been met with in various parts of Kashmir, but is nol found fartlier 

 south; it seems to be fairly common in Turkestan. 



2. Nebria limbigera Solsky in Fedchenko's Reise in Turkestan ii. pt. 5. 1874, ]>. 1.5; 

 Andrewes, Fauna of Brit. Ind., Col. Carab. i. 1929, pp. 114 and 120. 



Tibet: Tso Nyak region 12-VIII-32 {Tsewang Tashi and Sonam Tergas), 2 ex. 



Apparently a more widely spread species than the last, for it is found not only in 

 Kashmir, Tiljet and the northwestern provinces of India, but also in western China and 

 rather commonly in Turkestan. 



Mem. Conn. Acad., Vol. X, Art. IV. September, 1934. 



