﻿Types 
  of 
  Oriental 
  Carahidae. 
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  Lund, 
  Sehestedt, 
  Banks, 
  and 
  Hunter; 
  the 
  two 
  former 
  

   are 
  now 
  in 
  the 
  University 
  Museum 
  at 
  Copenhagen, 
  the 
  

   Banks 
  Collection 
  is 
  in 
  the 
  British 
  Museum, 
  and 
  the 
  Hunter 
  

   Collection 
  in 
  the 
  Glasgow 
  University 
  Museum. 
  The 
  col- 
  

   lection 
  of 
  Fabricius 
  himself 
  is 
  in 
  the 
  Kiel 
  University 
  

   Museum. 
  Among 
  the 
  Glasgow 
  types 
  there 
  are 
  none 
  of 
  

   Oriental 
  Carabidae, 
  so 
  that 
  my 
  remarks 
  will 
  be 
  confined 
  

   to 
  the 
  specimens 
  in 
  the 
  Banks 
  Collection. 
  These 
  were 
  

   seen 
  by 
  Hope 
  (Col. 
  Man. 
  ii, 
  1838, 
  36-45), 
  and 
  lists 
  are 
  

   given 
  of 
  the 
  Carabidae 
  described 
  by 
  both 
  Linnaeus 
  and 
  

   Fabricius, 
  together 
  with 
  the 
  localities, 
  and 
  the 
  correct 
  

   genera 
  as 
  known 
  at 
  that 
  time. 
  In 
  his 
  preface 
  Hope 
  says 
  : 
  

   " 
  From 
  my 
  friend 
  Dr. 
  Erichson 
  of 
  Berlin 
  I 
  have 
  lately 
  

   received 
  the 
  offer 
  of 
  the 
  loan 
  of 
  his 
  Manuscripts 
  on 
  Fabrician 
  

   Insects, 
  in 
  which 
  are 
  noted 
  down 
  many 
  observations 
  made 
  

   during 
  a 
  careful 
  examination 
  of 
  the 
  Copenhagen 
  Collec- 
  

   tions." 
  I 
  cannot, 
  however, 
  find 
  any 
  further 
  reference 
  to 
  

   these 
  notes 
  in 
  Hope's 
  works, 
  nor 
  does 
  Erichson 
  appear 
  to 
  

   have 
  published 
  them. 
  Schauni 
  saw 
  the 
  Kiel 
  and 
  Copen- 
  

   hagen 
  collections 
  in 
  1845 
  and 
  published 
  some 
  remarks 
  

   on 
  them. 
  Neither 
  he 
  nor 
  Erichson, 
  however, 
  give 
  any 
  

   intimation 
  that 
  they 
  had 
  examined 
  the 
  Banks 
  Collection. 
  

  

  About 
  ten 
  years 
  later 
  Motchulsky 
  made 
  a 
  tour 
  including 
  

   London, 
  Kiel, 
  and 
  Copenhagen, 
  where 
  he 
  examined 
  the 
  

   Linnaean 
  and 
  Fabrician 
  types. 
  The 
  results 
  of 
  his 
  examina- 
  

   tion 
  will 
  be 
  found 
  recorded 
  at 
  some 
  length 
  in 
  his 
  " 
  Etudes 
  

   Entomologiques 
  " 
  (vol. 
  iv, 
  1855, 
  25-71). 
  He 
  seems 
  also 
  

   to 
  have 
  had 
  the 
  advantage 
  of 
  some 
  notes 
  made 
  by 
  Chevrolat 
  

   during 
  his 
  residence 
  at 
  Kiel 
  and 
  Copenhagen. 
  

  

  Each 
  of 
  these 
  authors 
  has 
  added 
  something 
  to 
  our 
  

   knowledge 
  of 
  the 
  insects 
  which 
  Fabricius 
  described, 
  but 
  

   there 
  are 
  still 
  obscurities 
  which, 
  as 
  far 
  as 
  the 
  material 
  in 
  

   the 
  Banks 
  Collection 
  goes, 
  I 
  shall 
  do 
  my 
  best 
  to 
  remove. 
  

   Accordingly 
  I 
  give 
  below 
  some 
  notes 
  on 
  five 
  Oriental 
  

   species, 
  and 
  also 
  — 
  for 
  special 
  reasons 
  — 
  on 
  a 
  sixth 
  species 
  

   from 
  West 
  Africa. 
  

  

  1. 
  Anthia 
  (Carabus) 
  sexguttata 
  (Syst. 
  Ent. 
  1775, 
  236). 
  

   This 
  well-known 
  species, 
  which 
  seems 
  to 
  be 
  confined 
  to, 
  

   and 
  is 
  also 
  common 
  throughout 
  India, 
  does 
  not 
  call 
  for 
  

   special 
  comment. 
  It 
  has 
  been 
  redescribed 
  by 
  other 
  

   entomologists 
  under 
  the 
  following 
  names, 
  viz. 
  orientalis 
  

   {Pachymorpha) 
  Hope 
  (Col. 
  Man. 
  ii, 
  1838, 
  163, 
  t. 
  3, 
  f. 
  4), 
  

   indica 
  Chaud. 
  (Bull. 
  Mosc. 
  1861, 
  ii, 
  562), 
  and 
  elliptica 
  

   Motch. 
  (Bull. 
  Mosc. 
  1864, 
  iii, 
  216), 
  but 
  these 
  are 
  at 
  most 
  

  

  