320 Gustav Hauser, 



Die angeführte, auf Grund erneuter Untersuchung in einigen 

 Punkten geänderte und ergänzte Beschreibung des croesus lautet: 



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

 pundis viridi-aeneis nitidis instituto, sulcis front alihts viridi-aeneo fulgenti- 

 bus. Prothorace permagno, latitudine paulo hreviore, lateribus medio 

 suhangidatim düatato, antrorsum rix angtistato, marginihus laterälibus 

 explanatis, crenulatis, rufo-cupreo ftdgeniibiis , nigro-callosis, margine 

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

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

 vix produdis, ante lobulos fossulis liaud profundis, impressione transversa 

 minus manifesta inter se cotijundis; disco subconvexo, rufo-cupreo, 

 rugulis transversis nigris fortioribus leviter obscurato, inter rugas rufo- 

 cupreo punctata, linea media manifesta. 



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

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

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

 aureo-fulgido ; mucrone brevi, bicuspidato; tuberculis primariis crebris, 

 oblongis, Jiaud midtum eleuatis, nigris, subnitidis, tuberculis secundariis 

 subrotundis vel oblongis, multo minoribus, nigris, lineas redas formanti- 

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

 breves irreguläres et flexuosas formantibus, saepe tuber cidis primariis 

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

 superficie confertim grannlato-rugulosa. Subtus niger, nitidtis, proiho- 

 racis episternis aureo-cupreis, sparsim aiireo-pundatis, leviter aciculatis, 

 epipleuris prothoracis et ster^ii violaceo-micantibus, mesothoracis episternis 

 nigris, impunctatis, metathoracis episternis nigris, fortiter pundatis, ely- 

 trorum epipleuris aureo-fulgidis. 



Pedibus nigris, ut in Lopinensi. 



$. Long. 42, lat. 14 mm. 



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



1 $ in meiner Sammlung." — 



CoiitoJabriifi pvincipalis H. W. Bates. 

 (Taf. 8, Fig. 8). 



H. W. Bates, One new species o£ the Coleopterous families Cicinde- 

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

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

 1889, p. 217. 



