194 ON THE C A REN I DES (F AM. CARABIDjE), 



excepting the blue margin to the prothorax and elytra, and the 

 blue reflection at the bottom of the fovese of the elytra. 



Carenum replexum, n.sp. 



Elliptical, subdepressed, Isevigate; head large, obliquely narrowed 

 on each side behind eyes, suborbital channel single; prothorax 

 transverse-quadrate, posterior angles widely reflexed and strongly 

 marked ; elytra elongate-cordate, impunctate, inflexed margins 

 wide; anterior tibi?e bidentate. Black, prothorax and elytra with 

 subviolaceous margins. 



Head widely transverse (3-5x6 mm.), rather depressed; frontal 



sulci strongly impressed, long, diverging lightly backwards ; 



space between sulci lightly convex; clypeus with median part 



wide, feebly emarginate ; preocular sulcus wide, hardly 



marked ; preocular process small, rounded ; eyes convex, deeply 



enclosed posteriorly ; orbits obliquely narrowed to neck ; one 



supraorbital puncture on each side. Antennte subfiliform, 



lightly compressed, apical joint oval. Prothorax transverse 



(4'3 X 7"3 mm.), lightly convex; sides lightly rounded (hardly 



narrowed anteriorly, very lightly narrowed posteriorly); anterior 



margin widely emarginate ; anterior angles advanced, widely 



rounded; posterior angles subrectangular, obtuse at summit; base 



truncate on each side, widely sublobate in middle; basal lobe 



widely emarginate-truncate; a light wide sinuosity at each 



side of basal lobe ; border widely reflexed, widened at anterior 



angles, dilatate and ver}' widely upturned at posterior angles, 



narrowly reflexed on middle of base; median line lightly impressed; 



lateral channel impunctate; inflexed margins projecting sharply 



from episterna. Elytra same width as prothorax (10 x 7'3 mm.)) 



widest about middle, widely truncate-emarginate at base, narrow 



at apex; sides lightly rounded, hardly narrowed to shoulders; 



humeral angles rounded ; margins wide ; border reflexed, most 



strongly so near shoulders, passing round humeral angles and 



widely and lightly upturned on each side of base just within 



humeral angles; a row of rather widely separated ocellate punc- 



