and on some Types of Oriental Carabidae. 189 
very short and coalesce, 11 is very short but remains separate. 
Proepisterna smooth, except for a few punctures at base; met- 
episterna smooth, hardly longer than wide. 
I know of no other species with a pattern like this, 
which, when further specimens are found, should render 
them easily determinable. 
Omophron pictus Wied. Length 6:0 mm. Width 
38 mm. 
Testaceous: middle of underside and apex of mandibles dark 
brown: a patch at back of head, another on middle of base of 
prothorax, and an elytral pattern green. The last is more easily 
described if the elytra are considered as green, with testaceous 
pattern and border. A basal horse-shoe-shaped patch (convex 
forwards) over intervals 3-9, not quite reaching base, short on 6, 
longer on 7-9; a median patch on 3-5; an apical patch, not reach- 
ing the border, also on 3-5, longest on 3; a short patch on 7-9, 
just below the outside part of the basal patch, succeeded behind 
by another patch on the same intervals, which joins both the border 
and the apical patch; two side patches from interval 11 to border, 
just touching on 12, but distant on 13-14. 
Head rather flat, smooth in front with faint cross-striation, 
wrinkled near eyes and finely punctate at back; subocular ridge 
extending inwards beyond buccal fissure, surface in front of it 
uneven, subpunctate near eye. Prothorax rather flat, bisinuate in 
front, base bisinuate on each side, increasing in width from apex 
to base, all angles acute; surface finely rugose, punctate in front, 
more coarsely along base, nearly smooth on disk; basal patch 
rather small, ill-defined, triangular, apex not quite reaching front 
margin. Llytra with fifteen punctate striae, 8 and 12 very short, 
intervals smooth but not very shiny, flat on disk, moderately 
convex at sides and towards apex. Underside smooth and shiny, 
a few coarse punctures on prosternal plate, sides of prosternum, 
base of proepisterna, sides of metasternum and basal segment of 
ventral surface. 
In shape almost exactly like O. maculosus Chaud., but 
head and prothorax much less punctate, and the pro- 
thoracic green patch greatly reduced. The elytral pattern 
is not altogether dissimilar, but in O. maculosus the basal 
testaceous patch is small and covers intervals 7-9 only, 
the median and apical patches are less developed, the 
hind patch on 7-9 quite short, and interval 13 is green 
throughout. 
