﻿Types 
  of 
  Oriental 
  Carabidae. 
  171 
  

  

  Bates 
  (Scient. 
  Results 
  of 
  Sec. 
  Yark. 
  Miss. 
  1891, 
  Col. 
  4) 
  also 
  

   records 
  ? 
  Yarkand 
  and 
  China. 
  In 
  all 
  probability 
  B. 
  lim- 
  

   batus 
  Ball 
  (Bull. 
  Mosc. 
  1870, 
  iv, 
  327), 
  and 
  B. 
  batesi 
  Sem. 
  

   (Hor. 
  Soc. 
  Ent. 
  Ross, 
  xxv, 
  1891, 
  276 
  (note) 
  ) 
  belong 
  to 
  this 
  

   species. 
  B. 
  davidianus 
  Fairm. 
  (Ann. 
  Soc. 
  Ent. 
  Belg. 
  1888, 
  

   7) 
  is 
  a 
  well-marked 
  local 
  race 
  found 
  in 
  Yunnan 
  and 
  at 
  

   Hong-Kong. 
  

  

  4. 
  Calosoma 
  indicum. 
  The 
  type 
  of 
  this 
  species 
  cannot 
  

   be 
  traced, 
  but 
  I 
  have 
  little 
  hesitation 
  in 
  identifying 
  it 
  

   with 
  C. 
  orientale 
  Chaud. 
  (Ann. 
  Soc. 
  Ent. 
  Fr. 
  1869,' 
  368).* 
  

   Chaudoir's 
  specimen 
  came 
  from 
  Bengal, 
  and 
  Bates 
  (Scient. 
  

   Results 
  of 
  Sec. 
  Yark. 
  Miss. 
  1891, 
  Col. 
  3) 
  identifies 
  examples 
  

   from 
  the 
  Sind 
  Valley 
  and 
  Kashmir 
  with 
  Chaudoir's 
  species. 
  

   My 
  own 
  records 
  are 
  all 
  from 
  N. 
  India. 
  

  

  The 
  species 
  only 
  differs 
  from 
  C. 
  chinense 
  Kirby 
  (Trans. 
  

   Linn. 
  Soc. 
  xii, 
  1818, 
  379) 
  in 
  its 
  rather 
  darker 
  colour, 
  and 
  

   shorter 
  elytra; 
  both 
  of 
  them 
  — 
  along 
  with 
  various 
  other 
  

   described 
  species 
  — 
  are 
  Kttle 
  more 
  than 
  local 
  forms 
  of 
  

   C. 
  maderae 
  F. 
  (Syst. 
  Ent. 
  1775, 
  237), 
  of 
  which 
  the 
  type 
  

   is 
  in 
  the 
  Banks 
  Collection. 
  

  

  5. 
  Carabus 
  wallichi. 
  The 
  type 
  agrees 
  with 
  Fairm 
  aire's 
  

   description 
  of 
  his 
  C. 
  indicus 
  (Bull. 
  Soc. 
  Ent. 
  Fr. 
  1889, 
  15), 
  

   and 
  I 
  feel 
  little 
  doubt 
  as 
  to 
  the 
  identity 
  of 
  these 
  two 
  

   species. 
  Bates 
  (Compt. 
  rend. 
  Soc. 
  Ent. 
  Belg. 
  1891, 
  324) 
  

   records 
  a 
  single 
  specimen 
  taken 
  by 
  Pere 
  Cardon 
  at 
  Konbir 
  

   (Bengal). 
  There 
  are 
  examples 
  in 
  the 
  British 
  Museum 
  from 
  

   Mmigphu 
  (British 
  Sikkim), 
  and 
  Fairmaire's 
  specimen 
  came 
  

   from 
  DarjiUng. 
  

  

  6. 
  Chlaenius 
  nepalensis 
  = 
  C. 
  (Diaphoropsophus) 
  meliyi 
  

   Chaud. 
  (Bull. 
  Mosc. 
  1850, 
  ii, 
  407). 
  Dohrn 
  (Stett. 
  Ent. 
  

   Zeit. 
  1879, 
  458) 
  seems 
  first 
  to 
  have 
  recognised 
  that 
  Chau- 
  

   doir's 
  species 
  was 
  the 
  same 
  as 
  Hope's, 
  but 
  with 
  only 
  a 
  

   two-line 
  description 
  before 
  him 
  he 
  naturally 
  hesitated 
  

   to 
  substitute 
  nepalensis 
  for 
  meliyi. 
  Laferte 
  described 
  

   the 
  species 
  twice 
  over 
  under 
  the 
  names 
  of 
  Barymorphus 
  

   concinnus 
  and 
  B. 
  planicornis 
  (Ann. 
  Soc, 
  Ent. 
  Fr. 
  1851, 
  

   236), 
  and 
  Bates 
  described 
  it 
  yet 
  again 
  from 
  Formosa 
  as 
  

   C. 
  swinhoei 
  (Proc. 
  Zool. 
  Soc. 
  1866, 
  342). 
  It 
  is 
  found 
  all 
  

   over 
  India, 
  in 
  Ceylon, 
  Burma, 
  Siam, 
  Cambodia, 
  S.E. 
  

   China, 
  and 
  Formosa. 
  

  

  There 
  is 
  a 
  specimen 
  at 
  Oxford 
  also 
  indicated 
  as 
  the 
  

  

  * 
  This 
  was 
  written 
  some 
  time 
  ago. 
  I 
  now 
  think 
  Chaudoir's 
  

   species 
  different 
  from 
  Hope's. 
  1 
  accept 
  the 
  named 
  specimen 
  of 
  

   C. 
  indicum 
  Hops 
  in 
  the 
  British 
  Museum 
  as 
  typical 
  of 
  that 
  species. 
  

  

  