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— testaceous-yellow, with a round black spot on each elytron a 

 little behind the middle and contiguous to the suture. 



Carabus tientei, Thomson. 



Chia-ting Fu (1000 feet), and Wa-shan (6000 feet). 



Mr. Pratt had previously taken this species at Ichang and 

 Kiu-Kiang, lower down the Yang-tsze. At Ichang it is smaller, 

 and the peculiar sinuation of the elytral apex in the female, with 

 tooth-like projection of the outer angles, is much less developed. 

 Kiu-Kiang examples measure 37 millims. ; those from Chia-ting 

 Fu and Wa-shan are from 36 to 40 millims., but Ichang speci- 

 mens are only 27 — 30 millims. Thomson gives 30 — 32 millims. 

 as the size of the insect he described. The colour is nearly 

 always black, with a slight silky gloss, but individuals occur of a 

 bluish hue, and some have a purple-coppery tinge on the sides of 

 the thorax and elytra. In the largest individuals the sides of the 

 striae are generally free from the row of minute granules which 

 are seen in the smaller ones and in C. protenes, and which 

 give the appearance of punctured striae, the striae proper being 

 constantly impunctate. 



Carabus protenes, Bates, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1889, p. 217. 



Wa-shan and Chia-ting Fu. Taken previously at Ichang. 



This species is apparently closely allied to C. delavayi 

 (Fairmaire), from Yunnan. The thorax varies considerably in 

 outline, being sometimes — as in the description above cited — 

 elongate, slightly dilated before the middle, and thence narrowed 

 to the apex, but in other examples broader anteriorly, and in others 

 decidedly but gradually narrowed behind, with sinuated margin, 

 and narrow, acute, and deflected hind angles. Occasionally the 

 side carina? of the triplets of the elytra are depressed and sub- 

 interrupted, as occurs in C. monilis and allied species. 



Carabus fiduciarius, Thomson. 

 Chia-ting Fu. A widely-distributed Chinese species. 



Carabus prattianus, n. sp. 

 Closely allied to C. tientei, and of the same greatly elongated form, 

 with (in female) strongly sinuated and dentated apices of elytra ; the thorax 

 is also similar in being broadly rotundate-dilated in front and strongly nar- 

 rowed behind, with very little sinuation and obtuse deflexed hind angles, the 

 surface minutely and irregularly rugulose. But it differs conspicuously in the 

 sculpture of the elytra, which consists on each side of three rows of large 

 convex tubercles, separated from one another, and from the sutural and 

 lateral spaces, by a strongly elevated carina ; the lateral marginal space has 

 a shorter row of similar but smaUer tubercles, followed by a minutely gran- 

 ulated margin; the sutural area is depressed and transversely rugulose. 

 Long. 38 millim. J . 



Ichang. A single example. 



