Die Damaster-Coptolabnis-Gruppe der Gattung Carabus. 153 



Fairmaire, Petites Nouv. Entomol., Vol. 11, p. 37 (1876); Water- 

 HOüSE, Aid to identif. of Ins., part 16 (Jan. 1883). 



A male example obtained at Sapporo, Yezo, is figured by Water- 

 HOUSE as above cited; a Jarge female, also obtained by Mr. Lewis, 

 differs from the male in its broader tliorax, and the raised elytral 

 Striae being interrupted by punctures. Tliis he has provisionaily 

 named C. grandis.^^ — 



In der beigefügten Abbildung sind besonders die zweiten Rippen 

 Smal, die ersten vom zweiten Drittel ab öraal unterbrochen, während 

 deren erstes Drittel noch eine zusammenhängende Rippe bildet. Die 

 punktförmige Unterbrechung kommt jedoch in der Abbildung nicht 

 zum Ausdruck. — 



Von Interesse sind Äußerungen von Lewis über die Bedeutung 

 des gehinii für die Entwicklung der Farbenbildung bei der Japanischen 

 Caraben-Fauna, insb. auch der dem gehinii nahe verwandten Damaster- 

 Gruppe. 



„I believe I have traced here in Carabus the same lines of 

 Variation which I noticed three years since in Damaster, viz., that 

 a robust or stunted form is an earlier stage in the thermal modi- 

 flcation than colour, colour appearing only as an insect requiring 

 warmth becomes diurnal. The discovery of the beautiful Carabus 

 gehinii in Hokkaido has introduced into the fauna of Japan an entirely 

 new phase of diurnal Carabus, and although this species at present 

 Stands apart from the other members of the genus, we cannot fail 

 to observe that its colours are subdued, and by analogy we can 

 anticipate the flnding in Saghalin of northern affinities which will 

 be as bright as the European auronitens^)" — 



1) „Mr. Bates has just received this form in a fine new species 

 from lat. 46^" 



Acoptolabrus lopatini Mor. 



A. Morawitz , Zur Kenntniss der Adephagen Coleopteren, in : Mem. 

 Acad. Sc. St. Petersbourg (7), Vol. 34, Saint Petersbourg 1886, 

 No. 9, p. 17. 



Originaltext : 



„Subtus obscure-coeruleus, antrorstim ruhrocupreo-varhi^, supra capite 

 pronotoque virescenti-cupreis, elyiris nigris vel obscure-ciipreis, basi margineque 



