216 MR. H. W. BATES ON NEW SPECIES [Apr. 2, 



6. On new Species of the Coleopterous Families Cicindelida 

 and Carabid(B, taken by Mr. Pratt in Chang Yang, near 

 Ichang on the Yang-tsze, China. By H. W. Bates, 

 F.R.S. 



[Eeceived March 18, 1889.] 



The following descriptions are in continuation of those published 

 in the Society's 'Proceedings,' 1888, pp. 380-383. The specimens 

 form part of the second collection sent home by Mr. Pratt, made 

 in the richly-wooded hilly district of Chang Yang, at elevations of 

 from 4000 to 6000 feet above the sea-level. 



COLLYRIS AUREOFUSCA. 



C. filiformi (Chnud.) affinis : gracilis, postice gradatim sed paullo 

 dilatata, supra ceneo- vel violaceo-fusca, elijtris aurato-fuscis ; 

 labro antennisque basi cenescenii-iiigris, his urticulis 3°-! 1"" plus 

 minusve fulvo-testaceis, mediocribus, thoracis basin longitudine 

 attingentibus ; capite post oculos, c? rotundato-angustato, $ 

 convexiore cuhoidali, fronte dimidio anteriore medio distincte sed 

 obtuse carinata ; thorace subconico post medium mediocriter et 

 gradatim dilatato, ante basin sulcato-coiistricfo, dorso trans- 

 versim striato ; elytris politis, sat minute et discrete (medio 

 paullulum rugose) punctatis, basi et apice fere Icevibus, 7nedio 

 utrinque fasciola parum distincta {interdum obsoleta) rufescenti ; 

 subtus nigro-cyanea, pedibus fulvo-piceis, femoribus posticis 

 piceis (2 femoribus et tibiis posticis piceis, tarsis fulvis). 



Long. 13-16 millim. 



This species is most nearly alUed to C. formosana (Bates), de- 

 scribed in Proc. Zool. Soc. 1866, p. 341, in which the frontal carina 

 is also somewhat abruptly elevated. 



Carabtjs (Coptolabrus) principalis. 



Elongatus, elytris (d 2) ^"^^^ convexis apiceque longe acute pro- 

 ductis ; capite posfice thoraceque Icete rufo-auratis parum nitidis, 

 elytris obscure smaragdinis vpacis, limbo laterali splendide rufo- 

 aurato ; antennis partibus oris, corpore subtus pedibusque sub- 

 violaceo-nigris, prosterno cupreo-aurato elytrisque epipleuris 

 viridi-auratis ; capite postice thoraceque creberrine conjiuenter 

 punctulatis, hoc paullo ante medium angulatim dilatato, lateribus 

 antice leviter rotundatis postice valde sinuatis ; margine laterali 

 cequaliter reflexo, angulis anticis a collo paullulum reniotis, 

 posticis (cum margins basali contiguo) subito defexis ; elytris 

 tuberculis ovatis mediocribus, valde cotivexis, utrinque seriebus 

 tribus, granulisque rotundis confertis seriebus quatuor, nigris 

 nitidis ; interstitiis subtilissime alutaceis opacis, irregulariter 

 minute granulatis ; prosterno sparsissime punctulato. 



Long. 33-42 millim. 6 $ • 



Ichang. 



