Die Damaster-Coptolabrus-Gruppe der Gattung Carabus. 121 



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



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



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



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



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



1883, p. 205. 



6. George Lewis, On the distribution of Daraaster. with description 



of anewspecies {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 violasceniibus, nüidis, transversim, ruguloso- 

 punctatis, thoracis laterihus düatatis, elytris triUratis, liris tuberculosis, 

 interstüiis verrticis depressmsculis et punctis elevatis scabriuscuUs, apice 

 angustato sed vix produeto et non aculeato. 



Hab.: Aiva-Sima^}, Japan. 



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

 of stouter bnild, 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 Mr. Fortune, who 

 has just return ed 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 fortimei 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 his 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." 



