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Procul dubio Br. eleganti H. W. Bâtes japonico multo pro- 

 pius accedit, sed discrepat plerisque elytrorum striis omnino ob- 

 literatis, prothorace lateribus multo magis aequabiliusque rotun- 

 dato, coleopteris brevioribus, probabiliter etiam aliis haud exigui 

 momenti iusignibus. 



Habitatio: Cbiuae prov. Se-tschuau, pars septentr.: Ta-tz'ao- 

 pin supra augustias Cho-dzi-gou, haud procul ab urbe Lun-ugan- 

 fu (M. Berezowsky! 28. VII— 7. VIII. 1893). 



Statio: ait. 10.000 — 13.000': ut videtur, zoua pratorum 

 alpinorum; occurrit, quantum constat, sub lapidibus. 



Materialia examinata: solum spécimen (1 $) (coll. P. a Seme- 

 now). 



3. Broscosoma elegans H. W. Bâtes 1883. 



Broscosoma elegans H. W. Bâtes: Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1883, p. 233; tab. 

 YIII, fig. 7: 



«Valde convexum; politissimura, antennis, partibus oris pedi- 

 busque piceo-fulvis; elytris breviter ovatis (humeiis nullis) valde 

 punctato-striatis. Long. 8% — 9 mm., c5, 9- 



Niohozan and Nantaizan, at 7.000 to 8.000 feet élévation. 



This elegant and curious Carabid is distinguished from the 

 only others known of the genus (B. Baldense and B. Ribbei ^^j), 

 by the ovate, almost gibbons, deeply punctate-striate elytra. The 

 faciès is rather that of BispJmericus than of Broscosoma, but it 

 indoubtedly belongs to the latter genus. The head is similar in 

 form to that of B. Baldense, but it is smooth and polished, with 

 the two furrows on each side over the base of the antennae more 

 clearly marked, and the mandibles and palpi more elongated and 

 porrected. The antennae are much thinner, and the fine pubes- 

 cence does not begin before the 4th joint. The thorax is globose- 

 ovate and highly polished, equally narrowed behind and before; 



") Sic. Talis species, quantum mihi constat, nusquam exstat. 



