216 ON THE CARENIDES (FAM. CARABID^'E), 



ventral segment ; anterior tibia? bidentate, intermediate tibiae 

 incrassate with a strong triangular external tooth at apex. 

 Shining; head, disc of prothorax and under parts black; elytra 

 metallic purple, inflexed margins of a more dull purple; prothorax 

 widely margined with purple ; under surface of head faintly 

 tinged with purple. 



Head Itevigate, large, widely convex (4 x 5 mm.), roundly and 

 strongly declivous to anterior margin; occipital region strongly 

 and sharply depressed below plane of vertex; frontal sulci very 

 deep, divergent; space between them wide, convex; preocular 

 process short, lightly protuberant, not so prominent as eye; pre- 

 ocular sulcus distinct, linear; clypeus with median part truncate; 

 eyes depressed, deeply embedded in orbits, these thick and pro- 

 jecting beyond eyes; suborbital channel wide, divided posteriorly 

 by a wide longitudinal ridge; two supraorbital punctures on each 

 side. Maxillary palpi with apical joint subsecuriform ; labial 

 with penultimate joint short, thick, apical joint widely securiform. 

 Antennae stout, not short or incrassate; joints 5-10 short, greatly 

 compressed, apical joint oval. Prothorax depressed, not percep- 

 tibly wider than head (-5 x .5-3 mm.); sides subparallel in middle, 

 lightly rounded in front, shortly and decidedly narrowed behind 

 posterior angles, these wide; a decided sinuosity a little before 

 base on each side; basal angles rounded; anterior margin trun- 

 cate ; anterior angles obtuse ; border narrow, thicker and less 

 reflexed on base, passing round anterior angles ; median line 

 strongly impressed ; basal area wide, depressed, defined by a 

 transverse impression between antebasal sinuosities. Elytra 

 elongate-oval with base truncate, very little wider than prothorax 

 (11 X .5-6 mm.), depressed, abruptly and roundly declivous on sides 

 and apex, rather lightly declivous to peduncle; border narrow, 

 lightly folded back and upturned at shoulders; anterior discoidal 

 puncture a short distance behind humei'al angle, posterior towards 

 apex on upper part of marginal declivity neai-er margin than 

 suture; a row of umbilicate punctures along sides; some irregularly 

 placed punctures on basal declivity. Anterior femora not wide 

 as in Eutoma; posterior coxse im punctate, posterior trochanters 

 acuminate at apex. 



