Die Damaster-Coptolabrus-Grnppe der Gattung Carabus. 121 



3. C. Gr. Thomson, Nägra anmärkningar öfver arterna af slägtet Carabus, 



in: Thomson, Opuscula Entomol. Lund, 1869, p. 657, 



4, H. W. Bates , On the Geodephag. Coleopt. of Japan , in : Trans. 



entomol. Soc. London, 1873, p. 230. 

 0. — , Supplement to the Geodephag. Coleopt. of Japan etc., ibid., 

 1883, p. 205. 



6. Geoege Lewis , On the distribution of Damaster, with description 



of a new species (viridipennis), in: Entomol. monthl. Mag., Vol^ 17, 

 1880—1881, p. 161. 



7. Specif. modificat. of Jap. Carab., in: Trans, entomol. Soc. London, 



1882, p. 524. 



8. J. R. Gehin et Haury, Catal. synom. et systemat. dss Coleopt. de 



la Tribu des Carabides, 1885. 



9. G. V. DE Lapouge, 1. c. 



Die Beschreibung Adams' (1) lautet: 



„D. capite et thorace violascentihus, nitidis, transversim, ruguloso- 

 pundatis, thoracis laterihus dilatatis, elyiris iriUratis, liris tuberculosis, 

 interstitiis , verrucis depressiuscuUs et punctis elevatis scabriusculis, apice 

 angustato sed vix producto et non amleato. 



Hab.: Awa-Sima^), Japan. 



In this species, which is of the same size as D. blaptoides, but 

 of stouter build, the head and thorax are of a fine violet tint, the 

 head is wider between the eyes than in the known 

 species, the sides of the thorax are dilated, the body is consider- 

 ably wider and more ovate, and the elytra, instead of being simply 

 sulcate, are furnished with three slightly prominent tubercular 

 ridges, with wart-like tubercles and elevated points Alling up the 

 interstices. 



I have much pleasure in naming it after Me. Fortune, who 

 has just returned from Japan and in conjunction with whom I com- 

 pared it, at Shanghai, with a careful figure of D. blaptoides supplied 

 to him by Mr. Adam White." 



Der von Adams beschriebene Typ des fortunei ist, wie aus der 

 Literatur ersichtlich ist (Lewis, in: Trans, entomol. Soc. London 



1) A. fortunei stammt tatsächlich nicht von Awa-Schima, sondern 

 von der nur wenige Meilen von ihr entfernten kleinen Insel Tabu- 

 Schima. Bates (4) schreibt hierüber: „Mr. Adams has recently informed 

 Mr. Lewis that is was on Taba-Sima that he collected bis specimens of 

 this insects. The differences of locality is not very material, as the two 

 Islands are on the same coast, not many miles distant from each other." 



