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NOTK ON CARABUS VIOLACEUS, subsp. SOLLICITANS, Hartert. 

 BY G. C. CHAMPION, F.Z.S. 



Few British Coleopterists are probably aware that the British 

 form of G. violaceus has been named subsp. sollicitans b}' Dr. Hartert 

 ["Novitates Zoologies," xiv, pp. 331, 335 (March, 1907)]. It is 

 stated to differ from G. violaceus (from Silesia, North Germany and 

 Austria) in having " the elytra less finely, more roughly, and some- 

 what more irregularly granulated, thus appearing much less smooth." 

 Dr. Hartert, it may be noted, says that " we may, for the present, 

 accept the dictum that G violaceus and C purpurascens are represen- 

 tative sub-species of each other." The true C. violaceus, according to 

 him, has the upper surface of the elytra uniformly covered with fine 

 granulations, without any striations, and the margins of a beautiful 

 reddish-violet, and G purpurascens the elytra sharply striated with 

 about a dozen elevated lines, between which granulations are visible. 

 He does not mention the form from Portland, &c, recorded by Fowler 

 (Col. Brit. Isl., i, p. 8), under the name exasperatus, with coarser 

 granulations and traces of raised lines on the elytra. I have it from 

 Parracombe, North Devon. 



Horsell : May \Wi, 1908. 



DROM1US ANGUSTUS, Brulle, AT WOKING. 

 BY G. C. CHAMPION, F.Z.S. 



Captain Deville recently sent me an example of Dromius anqustus, 

 Brulle (= testaceus, Er), from Bourges, France, and suggested that 

 the species probably occurred in Britain. In this surmise he was 

 quite correct, as I find I have five specimens of it from the Woking 

 district, captured by my son on January 10th, 1906, under bark of 

 old posts. The insect is no doubt mixed in British collections with 

 D. meridionalis, Dej., from which (cf. Ganglbauer, Kafer Mitteleuropa, 

 i, pp, 406, 407) it may be distinguished by its smoother forehead — 

 longitudinally wrinkled at the sides only, instead of completely across 

 as in D. meridionalis— and the reddish colour of the body, the elytra 

 alone sometimes in great part infuscate. The specimens before me 

 are relatively narrower than D. meridionalis and B. aqilis, F , and 

 have a large, elongate, testaceous patch on the inner part of the disc 

 of each elytron below the base. D. angustus and D. meridionalis 

 agree in having a single pore only on the third elytra] interstice near 



