A . -2-f. *<4 X 
JOURNAL 
OF THE 
ASIATIC SOCIETY OF BENGAL. 
.Part II.— NATURAL SCIENCE. 
SUPPLEMENT.— 1890. 
1 — Catalogue of the Insecta of the Oriental Region. No. 2, Order 
Coleoptera, Family Carabid®. — By E. T. Atkinson, B. A. 
Dr. Horn writes that the Carabidce form one of the members of the 
Adephagous series of Coleoptera, which ‘ is readily recognized by the 
predaceous character of its mouth parts, its slender auteunse (except in 
the Oyrinidat), pentamerous tarsi, and the structure of the first 
abdominal segment, which is in all cases divided or hidden by the posterior 
coxae in such a manner that it is entirely lateral, rarely appearing as 
a small triangular piece between the posterior coxae.’ 
The classification of the Carabidce is still unsettled, and, notwithstand- 
ing the very great attention paid to this group, there is no generally 
recognized arrangement that can be followed for the species of the 
Oriental Region. The number of groups, their extent, relative position, 
and nomenclature, still leave much to be desired. Leconte, t writing in 
1862, remarked: — ‘Numerous efforts have been made to indicate a 
rational distribution of the genera, and the attempts commenced by 
Latreille and Bonelli, and successively improved by the suggestions of 
Dejean, Erichson, Schiodte, Lacordaire, and myself, have finally, in the 
expert hands of Schaum, * assumed a form in which probably permanent 
results have been obtained.’ 
+ ‘ Classification of the Coleoptera of North America,’ in Smithsonian Miscellaneous 
Collections, 1862. 
* Natnrg. Ins. Deutschl, 1860, and ‘ Das system der Carabicinen,’ in Berlin. Eut, 
Zeits., iv, 1860, p, 161. 
