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  VI. 
  On 
  the 
  types 
  of 
  Oriental 
  Carabidae 
  t'w 
  the 
  British 
  

   Museum, 
  and 
  in 
  the 
  Hope 
  Department 
  of 
  the 
  Oxford 
  

   University 
  Museum. 
  By 
  H. 
  E. 
  Andrewes. 
  

  

  [Read 
  May 
  7th, 
  1919.] 
  

  

  By 
  the 
  term 
  " 
  Oriental 
  Carabidae 
  " 
  I 
  mean 
  the 
  species 
  

   inhabiting 
  India 
  and 
  South-Eastern 
  Asia, 
  including 
  all 
  

   the 
  adjacent 
  islands; 
  the 
  great 
  majority, 
  however, 
  of 
  

   those 
  I 
  shall 
  deal 
  with 
  in 
  this 
  paper 
  come 
  from 
  three 
  

   well-defined 
  areas, 
  viz. 
  Java 
  (Macleay), 
  Nepal 
  (Hope), 
  

   and 
  Ceylon 
  (Walker). 
  

  

  In 
  going 
  through 
  the 
  literature 
  of 
  the 
  subject 
  I 
  have 
  

   been 
  much 
  struck 
  by 
  the 
  fact 
  that 
  the 
  chief 
  writers 
  on 
  

   it 
  have 
  been 
  very 
  imperfectly 
  acquainted 
  with 
  the 
  .types 
  

   — 
  fairly 
  numerous 
  in 
  the 
  aggregate 
  — 
  which 
  are 
  in 
  the 
  

   British 
  Museum 
  and 
  at 
  Oxford. 
  The 
  reasons 
  for 
  this 
  are 
  

   not 
  far 
  to 
  seek, 
  for 
  the 
  descriptions 
  of 
  Hope 
  and 
  Walker 
  

   rarely 
  exceed 
  a 
  couple 
  of 
  lines, 
  and 
  as 
  a 
  means 
  of 
  identi- 
  

   fying 
  a 
  species 
  are 
  of 
  no 
  value 
  whatever. 
  Macleay's 
  

   descriptions, 
  though 
  a 
  little 
  fuller, 
  are 
  also 
  very 
  short. 
  

   Consequently, 
  entomologists, 
  desiring 
  to 
  discuss 
  the 
  work 
  

   of 
  these 
  authors, 
  could 
  only 
  do 
  so 
  effectively 
  by 
  examining 
  

   the 
  actual 
  types. 
  Very 
  few 
  appear 
  to 
  have 
  thought 
  it 
  

   worth 
  while 
  to 
  do 
  this, 
  though 
  Hope 
  and 
  Motchulsky 
  

   examined 
  the 
  Fabrician 
  types 
  and 
  published 
  their 
  obser- 
  

   vations. 
  Schaum 
  and 
  Chaudoir 
  both 
  also 
  saw 
  the 
  British 
  

   Museum 
  collections, 
  but 
  they 
  relate 
  next 
  to 
  nothing 
  of 
  

   what 
  they 
  saw 
  there. 
  

  

  When 
  H. 
  W. 
  Bates 
  was 
  writing 
  his 
  paper 
  on 
  the 
  Cara- 
  

   bidae 
  collected 
  by 
  Mr. 
  George 
  Lewis 
  in 
  Ceylon, 
  he 
  was 
  

   obliged 
  to 
  take 
  note 
  of 
  Walker's 
  work, 
  though 
  he 
  evidently 
  

   did 
  so 
  with 
  reluctance. 
  Walker's 
  types 
  are 
  consequently 
  

   better 
  known 
  than 
  Hope's 
  or 
  Macleay's, 
  though 
  there 
  

   still 
  remains 
  a 
  good 
  deal 
  to 
  clear 
  up 
  about 
  them. 
  

  

  I 
  propose 
  to 
  give 
  a 
  list 
  of 
  all 
  the 
  types 
  I 
  have 
  been 
  

   able 
  to 
  see, 
  author 
  by 
  author, 
  giving 
  the 
  synonymy 
  where 
  

   the 
  species 
  have 
  been 
  redescribed 
  by 
  later 
  writers, 
  and 
  

   additional 
  descriptions 
  where 
  they 
  seem 
  necessary. 
  Such 
  

   descriptions, 
  however, 
  are 
  necessarily 
  confined 
  to 
  char- 
  

   acters 
  which 
  are 
  readily 
  visible, 
  for 
  no 
  dissection 
  is 
  possible 
  ; 
  

  

  TRANS. 
  ENT. 
  SOC. 
  LOND. 
  1919. 
  — 
  PARTS 
  I, 
  II. 
  (jULV) 
  

  

  