320 Gustav Häuser, 



Die angeführte, auf Grund erneuter Untersuchung in einigen 

 Punkten geänderte und ergänzte Beschreibung des croesus lautet: 



„Capite obscuro-cupreo , vertice transversim rugoso, inter rugas 

 punctis viricU-aeneis nitidis instituto, sulcis frontalibus viridi-aeneo fulgenti- 

 bus. Prothor ace permagno, latitudine paulo hreviore, lateribus medio 

 svhangulatim dilatato, antrm'sum vix angtistato, tnarginibiis laterdlibus 

 explanatis, cremdatis, rufo-ctipreo fulgentibus, nigro-callosis, margine 

 antico leviter exciso, capite multo latiore, angulis anticis leviter obtusis, 

 margine postico recto, lobidis parvis, dedivibus, extrorsum et retrorsum 

 vix productis, ante lobulos fossidis liaud profundis, impressione transversa 

 minus manifesta inter se conjun'ctis; disco subconvexo, rufo-cupreo, 

 rugidis transversis nigris fortioribus leviter obscurato, inter rugas rufo- 

 cupreo punctato, linea media manifesta. 



Elytris ellipticis, convexis, obscuro-viridibus, vix subnitidis, fere 

 opacis , ad scapulas usque ad basin ad certum luminis situm lote et 

 magnißcentissime aureo-ftdgentibus, limbo sat angusto, fortiter cremdato, 

 aureo-fidgido ; mucrone brevi, bicuspidato; tuhercidis primariis crebris, 

 oblongis, haud midtum elevatis, nigris, subnitidis, tuberculis secundariis 

 subrotimdis vel oblongis, midto minoribus, nigris, lineas rectas formanti- 

 bus, tubercidis tertiariis haud numerosis, nigris, minimis hie illic lineas 

 breves irreguläres et flexuosas formantibus, saepe tubercidis primariis 

 conjunctis, ad humeros et ad basin omnibus tuberculis aureo-micantibus, 

 superficie confertim granidato-rugidosa. Subtus niger, nitidus, protho- 

 racis episternis aureo-cupreis, sparsim atireo-pmictatis, leviter acictdatis, 

 epipleuris prothoracis et sterni violaceo-micantibus, mesofhoracis episternis 

 nigris, imimncfatis, metathoracis episternis nigris, fortiter punctatis, ely- 

 irorum epipleuris aureo-fulgidis. 



Pedibus nigris, ut in Lopinensi. 



$. Long. 42, tat. 14 mm. 



Patria: Prov. Kiang-si, Kwei-Jci, 1200 m. 



1 $ in meiner Sammlung." — 



Coptolabru.'i j}t'incipalis H. W. Bates. 



(Taf. 8, Fig. 8). 



1. H. W. Bates, One new species of the Coleopterous families Cicinde- 

 lidae and Carabidae, taken by Mr. Peatt in Chang-Yang, near 

 Ichang on the Yang-tsze , China, in: Proc. zool. Soc. London, 

 1889, p. 217. 



