228 ON THE CARENIDES (FAM. CARABID^H) 



puncture on each side.* Mandibles stout, short. Labrum small. 

 Palpi with apical joint very widely securiform. Antennae stout; 

 joints 5-11 compressed, bisulcate and setose on edges, apical joint 

 much longer than penultimate, obtuse at apex. Prothorax 

 narrower than head, longer than broad (4-75 x 4-25 mm.), lightly 

 convex (disc a little depressed), not declivous to base in middle; 

 sides subparallel before posterior angles ; lightly and shortly 

 rounded to anterior angles, lightly narrowed to base ; anterior 

 angles not prominent; posterior angles not marked; basal angles 

 obtuse; base lightly rounded; border narrow, thicker and more 

 strongly reflexed at basal angles, lightly and widely sinuate on 

 each side near base, obsolete in middle of base; marginal channel 

 narrow, obsolete on base; median line strongly impressed on disc; 

 one marginal puncture on each side about anterior fifth; basal 

 area lightly defined on each side, not depressed below plane of 

 disc in middle. Elytra hardly as wide as prothorax (10 x 4-5 mm.), 

 widest rather behind middle, narrowed to base, depressed on disc, 

 strongly and roundly declivous to sides and apex ; base triangularly 

 emarginate behind peduncle ; shoulders rounded ; apical curve 

 wide; the apex itself produced shortly and obtusely beyond lateral 

 border; this border narrow near shoulders, becoming very wide 

 and thick posteriorly, widely upturned but not dentate at 

 shoulders; a row of umbilicate punctures along sides, becoming 

 more widely placed towards apex; an oblique foveiform punctate 

 depression at each shoulder just behind base ; basal declivity 

 abrupt, impunctate. Ventral segments impunctate. Legs light: 

 anterior tibije with apex strongly produced externally, a small 

 denticulation on external edge level with base of tarsus; inferior 



* The specimen before me has one supraorbital puncture placed above 

 the posterior margin of the eye on the right side and two on the left, but 

 I believe one to be the normal number, for there is throughout the whole 

 tribe of the Carenides a tendency for single punctures on the head, pro- 

 thorax and elytra to be sometimes represented by two similar punctures 

 placed close together. 



