FAMILY CARABIDAE 95 



Anthia sexguttata, Fabr. 



Reference. — Fabr. Sysi. l-'.tit. p. 136. 



Habitat. — Changa Manga, Punjab; Berar. Common in the plains of 

 North and Central India. 



Habits. — In Berar in July igoi I found this large carabid attacking 

 the caterpillars of the large hawk-moth {Pseudosphinx discistriga), which 

 happened to be very abundant defoliating the leaves of the teak-trees in the 

 Melghat Forest. The beetle itself was in some numbers, running up the 

 main trunks and on to the branches of the trees, and there could be no doubt 

 of its carnivorous activities at the time I observed it. I have never since 

 found it preying upon caterpillars. 



At the Changa Manga Plantation near Lahore in the Punjab I took 

 the insect feeding upon the wood-borer Sinoxylon analc, and think it was 

 also attacking the species of Alindria and Melamhia which were themselves 

 preying upon the Sinoxylon. I took several specimens of the carabid at 

 various heights on a large standing sissu-tree, and saw others right up the 

 bole just beneath where the crown commenced. This tree was very badly 

 attacked by the Sinoxylon, which was tunnelling into it to oviposit. The 

 carabid was searching for the beetles which had partially disappeared intO' 

 the bark, seizing such when found and dragging them from their partly 

 formed holes and devouring them {vide p. 173). 



Macrochilus bensoni, Hope. 

 Habitat. — United Provinces Terai, North India. 



Habits. — This is a common carabid, appearing in numbers at the com- 

 mencement of and throughout the rains in North India. I took pupae and 

 beetles, some of the latter mature, in the soil at the foot of sal-trees in the 

 Horai forests of the Kumaun Division on 11 May igo8. The insects were 

 predaceous upon the larvae of the cockchafer beetles Lachnosterna problematica, 

 L. clypealis, and Hetcroplia varians (p. 79). 



I have also taken specimens of this insect or a closely allied species- 

 from beneath the bark of a dead stump of a Homalium tomentoswn tree on 

 the Sal ween River in Tenasserim. 



The insect was active and numerous in the stump on 8 March 1905,. 

 and was feeding upon a termite which was riddling the wood. 



Scarites bengalensis, Dej. 



Reference. — Dej. Spec, ii, p. 468. 



Habitat. — Changa Manga, Punjab. 



Habits. — This beetle is predaceous upon the sissu wood-borer Sinoxylon 

 analc. It was taken from beneath the bark of a sissu-tree badly infested by 



