1931 ] Carabidm from North Carolina and Tennessee 145 
ON SOME CARIBIDiE, INCLUDING NEW SPECIES, 
FROM THE MOUNTAINS OF NORTH CARO- 
LINA AND TENNESSEE 
By P. J. Darlington, Jr. 
In late August and early September, 1930, I collected 
with an expedition from the Museum of Comparative 
Zoology (of Cambridge, Massachusetts) on several of the 
mountain ranges of western North Carolina and eastern 
Tennessee. Probably because of the lateness and dry- 
ness of the season few phytophagous or other arboreal 
beetles were found. However, Carabidse, in which I was 
chiefly interested, were abundant in suitable places, espe- 
cially on the heavily forested slopes of the higher moun- 
tains, so that we (Prof. Nathan Banks, Dr. F. M. Car- 
penter, Mr. Gilbert Banks and myself) were able to secure 
about 1800 specimens of the family. Dr. W. S. Creighton 
and Mrs. Creighton collected about 400 additional Cara- 
bidse at Little Switzerland, in the Black Mountains, North 
Carolina, also during the summer of 1930. This collection 
they have very kindly turned over to me. Study of these 
series of accurately labeled specimens has led to the recog- 
nition of several new species and subspecies, and it is chiefly 
to describe these novelties that the present paper is written. 
However, a few previously described local forms are dis- 
cussed. It is hoped that the paper may help to stimulate 
coleopterists to collect and study the interesting fauna of 
the southern Appalachian uplands. Only when much more 
collecting has been done, and the specimens labeled accur- 
ately and in detail, can a comprehensive study of this 
fauna and of its distribution be undertaken. 
I am indebted to the authorities of the Museum of Com- 
parative Zoology not only for sending me with their expedi- 
