Die Damaster-Coptolabrns- Gruppe der Gattuug Carabus. 153 



Fairmaire, Petites Nouv. Kntomol., Vol. 11, p. 37 (1876); Watee- 

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



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

 HOusE as above cited; a large feniale, also obtained by Mr. Lewis, 

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

 Striae being interrupted by punctures. Tliis he has provisionally 

 named C. grandis.^^ — 



In der beigefügten Abbildung sind besonders die zweiten Rippen 

 8mal, die ersten vom zweiten Drittel ab ömal 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 LE^^^s 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- 

 fication 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 frora the other members of the genus, we cannot fall 

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

 anticipate the finding in Saghalin of northern afflnities which will 

 be as bright as the European auronitens.'^y' — 



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

 frora lat. 46"." 



Acoptolahriis lopatlni Mor. 



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

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

 No. 9, p. 17. 



Originaltext : 



„Subtus obscwe-coendens , antrorsum rubrocupreo-varius, supra capite 

 pj'onotoque virescenti-C'iipreis,elytris nigris vel obscure-crtpreis, basi margineque 



