2 Mr. H. W. Bates' Additions to the 



species is the C. japonicus of Motschulsky he does not 

 say. Nothing that Motschulsky says in the two descrip- 

 tions he published can be strained to harmonize "with 

 Thomson's diagnosis. 



C. maiyasanus (Bates). Thomson has erred, also, in 

 his determination of this species. I find it difficult to 

 understand how an entomologist, in a group like the 

 present, can suppose a description like this — " Supra 

 ca^rulcscenti-niger, elytris striis impunctatis" (Avithout 

 mention of red tibire) — can apply to a species of which the 

 original and only description says, " fenco-cupreus, elytris 

 conspicue crenato-striatis, tibiis et tarsis piceo-rufis;" these 

 characters being constant in all the numerous examples 

 taken. 



Carahus Kampferi, Thomson, 1. c. p. 729. 



Thomson's diagnosis fits very well C. insidicola (Chaud.) 

 He has made, besides, an unfortunate choice of a name, 

 C. Kcempferi being the original, although MS. name of 

 C. DeHaanii. 



Among the numerous minor characters discovered by 

 Thomson, with his well known originality, in the Carahi 

 and allied genera, is the dilatation in many of the Japanese 

 species of the inner imder-edge of the male fore tibiie, about 

 the middle. This character exists in different degrees in 

 the various species allied to C. DeHaanii. In DeHaanii 

 (as in the Chinese C. prodi(/?is, Jiducinrius, &c.) the tibia3 

 ai'e simple. In C. Alhrechtii (and its numerous varieties of 

 colour and form) the dilatation is very slight, gradual and 

 rounded ; in C. jaconinus, C. insulicola and C. maiya- 

 sanus it is distinctly angular, but with modifications 

 according to the species. 



Carahus Van Volxemi, Putzeys, Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg. 

 t. x\dii. (1875) p. 2. 



I am indebted to M. Putzeys for a specimen of this 

 species, which is very distinct from all those brought home 

 by Mr. Lewis. 



Carabus opaculus, Putz. 1. c. p. 4. 

 Yesso. Apparently only one example taken. 



