INSECTS OF SAMOA 



Part IV. Fasc. 1 

 COLEOPTERA 



CARABIDAE 

 By H. E. Andre WES 



(With 9 Text-figures.) 



It is only during quite recent years that any Carabidae have been collected 

 in the Samoan Islands. The earhest expedition seems to have been that of 

 Dr. K. Rechinger, in 1905, an account of which appeared in Denkschr. K. Akad. 

 Wiss. Wien, Matli.-Natunv. Kl., Bd. xci, 1915, a short paper on the Carabidae 

 being contributed by Mr. E. Csiki ; Rechinger's collection is now in the Vienna 

 Museum, and Dr. K. Holdhaus has kindly sent it to me for examination. In 

 1912-13 collections were made by Dr. K. Friedrichs, and the results of his 

 expedition are discussed in Archiv. fur Naturgeschichte, Berlin, Bd. 88, A. 10, 

 1922. The Carabidae, however, were not dealt with at the time, and I am 

 indebted to Dr. W. Horn for sending me this collection from the Deutsches 

 Entomologisches Musemn in Berlin. My friend Dr. Harold Swale spent some 

 time in Samoa during the war, and, of the few examples taken by him, some 

 are in the British Museum and some in my own collection. Of two specimens 

 captured by Dr. F. W. O'Connor in 1921, one proves to belong to a new species ; 

 these specimens are in the British Museum, as is a solitary example taken in 

 1923 by Dr. J. S. Armstrong. I have also seen three specimens sent by the 

 Bishop Museum in Honolulu. The collections formed in 1924-5 by Messrs. 

 Buxton and Hopkins have added considerably to om- knowledge, and of the 

 five new species described below, of which all the types are in the British Museum, 

 four were taken by them. It will be understood that where, in the following 

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