Mr. H. E. Andrewes on Oriental Carabide. 451 
pits on sides of disk in front practically obsolete, base more 
closely punctate. Elytra less elongate, shoulders rather less 
cut away, intervals more convex, the front punctures on 
interval 7 wanting (but in the g specimen it is present 
on the right elytron). Front of proepisterna impunctate. 
United Provinces: W. Almora Division, Sunderdhunga 
Valley, 8000’-12,000’, June 1919, 2 ex., ¢ 2 (H. G. Cham- 
pion). The type (3) has been presented by Mr. Champion 
to the British Museum. ) 
ScARITINI. 
ZELMA, gen. nov. 
Ligula very small, narrow, (apparently) glabrous, concealed 
behind the supports of the labial palpi: paraglosse not visible. 
Mawille short, apex slender and glabrous, hooked, inner 
margin densely ciliate. Palpi very short and, when in situ, 
more or less concealed: mawillaries glabrous, apical joint three 
times as long as penultimate, tapering almost from base to 
extremity: /abeals with last joint a little longer than pen- 
ultimate, inflated at base and tapering sharply to apex, which 
is finely truncate, penultimate with two sete on inner margin 
near base. entum finely rugose, a little wider than long, 
moderately excised in front, base of excision straight, (appa- 
reutly) without tooth, epilobes very wide, the ridge separating , 
them from the lobes extending to base of mentum, two large 
pores near base of central part, which (viewed from below) 
is depressed; lobes pointed, more or less bordered, slightly 
rounded at sides, apex very obliquely truncate, surface pitted. 
Mandibles (appareutiy) without seta in scrobe, short, slightly 
curved, sharply pointed, with a rough inner edge. Labrum 
very short, front margin arcuate, sex-setose, but with some 
additional sete at sides. Antenne arising beneath a frontal 
plate, just before the eyes, moniliform, not quite reaching 
base of prothorax, joint 1 robust, a little longer than (each of) 
2, 3, 4, and 11, which are about equal, remainder about two- 
thirds as long, pubescent from joint 2- (inclusive), more 
densely so after first third of joint 4. Head flat, semicircular, 
widest at base, which is emarginate in the middle to receive 
a projection of the prothorax, margin uneven, more or less 
serrate, bisinuate at sides, with deep frontal depressions, 
clypeal suture invisible; eyes invisible from above, coarsely 
facetted, sunk in sides of head, between them and buccal 
fissure (which is represented by a tine groove up to the in- - 
sertion of antennee) intervene first a deep groove, for the 
of 31* 
