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Psyche 
[March 
WEST INDIAN CARABIDiE VI. 
THE JAMAICAN SPECIES, AND THEIR WINGS 
By P. J. Darlington Jr. 
Museum of Comparative Zoology 
This paper is the sixth of my series on the carabid beetles 
of the West Indies. It is the first comprehensive treatment 
of the Carabidse of Jamaica. All known Jamaican species 
(80) are listed taxonomically, and the list is annotated 
with data on the insects’ wings and flight. At the end of 
the list, the distribution of flying and flightless species in 
Jamaica is summarized and discussed. The facts here put 
on record concerning the atrophy of wings of certain species 
in the mountains of Jamaica will be referred to again in 
a paper which I have in manuscript, on the wings of Cara- 
bidse of mountains and islands. 
The Museum of Comparative Zoology possesses a good 
representation of Jamaican Carabidse collected by Mr. A. E. 
Wight, Prof. C. T. Brues, Mr. Chester Roys, and myself, 
and by some other persons. Besides this, I have had for 
study as a loan from the United States National Museum 
about 320 specimens of Carabidas collected in Jamaica by 
Dr. E. A. Chapin and Dr. R. E. Blackwelder during the 
winter of 1937. This borrowed collection really provided 
the stimulus which has called forth the present paper. It 
adds several genera and species to the Jamaican list, and 
contains also numerous specimens taken “flying at dusk” 
in nets attached to automobiles. Records of species taken 
actually in flight are unusual, and are very interesting in 
connection with my studies of Carabid wings. 
Species included in the following list without exact 
locality data are known in Jamaica only from the lowlands, 
below 1,000 ft. altitude, or are known merely from 
“Jamaica,” presumably from low altitudes. Species noted 
as “winged” have the inner wings fully developed and 
apparently fitted for flight in one or more Jamaican speci- 
mens. 
