210 Mr. H. W. Bates' supplement to the 



Geodephaga are not known to occur in intermediate lati- 

 tudes in China or in the islands just mentioned. Whether 

 this absence is real, or due only to our want of know- 

 ledge, and whether, if real, the absence has been brought 

 about by the destruction of the primitive forests 

 of China, many of the tropical species being forest 

 forms, must be left for decision to the time when the 

 smaller species of Coleoptera in China shall have been 

 collected with the same completeness as Mr. Lewis has 

 done those of Japan. 



Me. G. Lewis' Itineeaey (1880—1881). 



Approx. altitude in figures (feet). Brackets indicate the chief excursions. 

 Italics trained native collector sent at date. 

 1880. 



Feb. 27. — Yokohama (Tokio), sea-level, until Mar. 16 



Mar. 17. — Miyanoshita, 1390 (Kiga, 1390; Ashinoyu, 



2759) „ 19 



,, 20. — Yokohama (Bukenji, Oka, Kawasaki, Tokio, 



Kaclzusa, Yokosuka, Oyama, 4100) April 14 



April 15. — Miyanoshita, 1390 (Odawara, Tonosawa, 466; 



Ashinoyu, 2759) „ 16 



,, 17.— Hakone, 2424 (Gongensama Temple, 2474) ... ,, 19 



,, 20. — Suyama (base of Fujisan, Mishima, 59) ,, 22 



,, 23. — Hakone, 2424 (elevated forests to the south, 



about 2788 feet). 

 „ 24.— Miyanoshita, 1390 (Kiga, 1391 ; Ojigoku, 4101 ; 



Miyagino, 1493; and Shinyuba, 2280 ; Oyu)..May 3 

 May 4.— Subashiri, 2723 (Otomi-toge, 3307 ; Gotemba, 

 1529 ; Fujisan, 12,360, to 3rd rest house, 



Kawaguchi lake) ,, 10 



„ 11.— Miyanoshita, 1390 (Oyu and Shinyuba, 2280).. ,, 14 



Elevated forests above Atami, 4692, and Yugashima, in Idzu, 

 7 days. 



,, 15. — Yokohama (Enoshima, Bukenji, Tokio) 23 



,, 24. — Oyama, in Sagami, 4100 ,, 26 



„ 27. — Yokohama , 31 



June 1. — Tokio. 



,, 2. — Koga. 



„ 3.— Nikko, 2329 (Chiuzenji, 4272; Nantaizan,8188; 



Niohozan, 7874) June 21 



,, 22. — Nowata, on the Watarasegawa. 



Tsukuba yama, 3609, 4 days. 



„ 23. — Yokohama and suburbs July 5 



July 6. — Steamer to Hokkaido ,, 8 



,, 9. — Hakodate. 



,, 13.- Junsai Lake, beyond Nanaye (Suwaratake or 



Komanotake, 2742) ,, 17 



,, 18.— Hakodate (Ono, Akagawa, Nanaye) ,, 27 



