VIAGGIO DI LEONAEDO FEA 



IN BIRMANIA E REGIONI VICINE 



XLIV. 



LIST OF THE CARABIDAE 

 BY H. W. BATES, F. R. S. C) 



The number of species of Carabidae resulting from the in- 

 dustry of Leonardo Fea in his recent Entomological Exploration 

 of the Valley of the Ira w adi, reaches the considerable total of 440. 

 This is a large number to be obtained by one individual during 

 so brief a period in a tropical region where Carabidae, especially 

 the terrestrial species as distinguished from the arboreal, are 

 undoubtedly less numerous in species than they are in tempe- 

 rate latitudes. In the rich and varied island of Japan, M.'' G. Lewis, 

 in 1883, after several years industrious collecting himself and 

 enumerating all additional species obtained by other investigators, 

 recorded a total number of 394 only. In Ceylon he obtained 

 in the course of one season 124 species. Scientific Entomologists 

 have reason to be grateful to Signor Fea for attending to the 

 smaller and obscurer species, which have usually been so much 

 neglected in tropical countries, thus rendering incomplete and 

 misleading all comparisons of Faunas and all conclusions drawn 



(1) since this memoir was sent to the press , its accomplished writer has been 

 taken from us hy death. It has therefore become the sad duty of the editors to 

 correct the proofs without the assistance of the writer of the paper, and they have 

 felt it proper to make as few departures as possible from the manuscript of the 

 deceased. 



THP EPITORS. 



