CCCXXIV 
— Le Secrétaire dépose sur le bureau de l’Assemblée, pour la 
bibliothèque, deux exemplaires du tome XXXIV des Annales qui 
vient de paraître. 
Correspondance. 
Nombreux accusés de réception et annonces d’envois de publica- 
tions de la part des sociétés correspondantes. 
Lectures, communications. 
M. Séverin présente de la part de son auteur le travail suivant : 
Lisr or THE CARABIDÆ (orp. COLEOPTERA) OBTAINED BY 
PÈRE CARDON IN CHOTA-NAGPORE, 
by EH. WW. Bates. 
The following is an enumeration, with descriptions of the new 
species, of the Carabideous portion of the collection of Coleoptera 
sent home by Père Cardon; the specimens belonging to this family 
having been entrusted to me for determination by M. G. Séverin. 
The collection is of considerable interest as including the smaller 
and obscurer species as well as the more conspicuous forms, and as 
enabling us to fix the localities of many species previously described 
with the vague indication only of « India » or « Northern India ». 
The total number of species sent so far by Père Cardon is 94, 89 
of which are mentioned in the present list and 5 reserved as 
being doubtful and requiring further material, especially examples 
of the males, for their satisfactory determination. With the intel- 
ligence and zeal displayed by the Père Cardon in forming the 
collection one may be encouraged to look forward to a great in- 
crease in this total. In the probably not richer country of Burma 
Signor Leonardo Fea has recently collected no fewer than 42 
species of the same Family. Of the 89 species from Nagpore 
which form thus as we hope only a first contribution to a 
Carabideous Fauna of the District, 15 are new. This proportion of 
new species is sure to be much increased as Père Cardon perseveres 
in his researches, and becomes acquainted with the habits and 
baunts of the rarer forms. 
Subfamily CARABINÆ. 
Carabus Wallichii, Hope Gray’s Zool. Miscellany, I (1831). 
À single, female, example from Konbir, sent by Père Cardon, 
appears to be a slight variety of C. Wallichii, a Nepalese insect, 
in which the carinules between the foveæ of the chain-striæ are 
a little broader than in the type and distinctly broader than the 
raised interstices between the striæ. Its length is 20 millim. Hope’s 
specimen is 10/2 lin. (221/2 millim.). 
