CA RAB LT DAE 3F ROM “SB VS i AN. 
By H. FE. ANDREWES. 
[The Carabid beetles on which Mr. Andrewes has been kind enough to report 
were collected, mostly by Mr. S. W. Kemp, in the depth of winter. With the 
exception of Metabletus fuscomaculatus and Microlestes corticalts, which 
come from the desert, they were found at the edge of water-channels, streams 
or pools, or at that of Hamun-i-Helmand or lake of Seistan. On the shore 
of this lake there is in winter a drift-line, marking flood-level and consisting 
mainly of fragments of reeds. Under these fragments a fairly large fauna 
(consisting mainly of beetles and Heteroptera, but also including earwigs, a 
toad, etc.) finds shelter, and here we took no less than seven of the sixteen 
Carabidae found in Seistan.—N. Annandale. | 
The species of Carabidae taken in Seistan number sixteen only. 
These show little relationship to the Indian fauna, though there 
are two species of which I have records from Karachi and the 
United Provinces respectively. A third species has not yet been 
recorded as coming from India, but I have examples of it in my 
collection from the Himalayas as mentioned below. Seistan—— 
judging by the Carabidae—seems to be near the boundary (in so 
far as it exists) separating the fauna of Central Asia from that of 
the long sandy tract which stretches from Morocco to Sind. Ihave 
been able to determine most of the species, but have had to leave 
one or two unidentified. 
Distichus planus, Bon. 
I Ex. No. 8782. lLab-i-Baring, a 7-xii-18, under drift 
at edge of Hamun. 
Common in S.E. Europe, S.W. Asia, Egypt, etc. 
Dyschirius sp. 
3 Ex. No. 8795. Edgeofstream of saline water near Lab-i- 
Baring, Seistan, I1-xii-18. 
I have not been able at present to identify this species. 
Pogonus micans, Chaud. 
It Ex. No. 8791-3. Wab-i-Baring, Seistan, 7-x1i-18, under 
drift at edge of Hamun. 
N. Persia: Astrabad. Kopet-Dagh: Germab. 
Bembidium sp. 
I Ex. No.8779. Nasratabad, Seistan, ca. 2,000 ft., 26-xi-18. 
I cannot identify this species, but a large number have been 
described from Central Asia, and this may be among them. 
