Mr. H. E. Andrewes on Oriental Carabide. 453 
but also of the prothorax. In the Cryptomorphine there is a 
groove on the underside of the head for the reception of the 
antenne, and in Scarites there is a shallow groove for the 
scape only. I know of no other instance in the Carabide of 
such a groove on the prothorax as well as the head. Zelma 
is evidently related to Solenogenys, described by Westwood 
in 1859 (Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. p. 170) for S. feda, a species 
taken by Bates on the Amazon. Apart from its larger size, 
this bears a strong superficial resemblance to Z. miranda, 
though in many of its characters it is strikingly different. 
In Solenogenys both the eyes and the margins of the elytra 
are visible from above, the antennal groove is confined to 
the underside of the head, and does not extend to the pro- 
thorax ; joint 3 of the antenne is much longer than 2 and 4, 
and the pubescence begins at joint 3; the mentum is toothed, 
the apical joints of the palpi are less inflated, the median part 
of the head is produced into a lobe beneath, the sides into two 
elongate processes, bounding the antennal channels; the under 
surface is not pitted, and the ventral segments are not trans- 
versely channelled. 
With regard to the position of the two genera, I think that 
the (apparent) absence of a seta in the mandibular scrobe, the 
fossorial front tarsi, the pedunculate prothorax, and the 
insertion of the antennze under frontal projections all point 
to their inclusion among the Scaritini. Putzeys, in his 
' “Révision Générale des Clivinides” (Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg. 
x. 1867), includes the genus Solenogenys, but does not 
comment on its unusual characters. It is clear to me that 
neither genus will fit either into the Scarites-group or the 
Clivina-group, and I see nothing for it but to forma new 
Solenogenys-group. Whether this can be framed to include 
Zelma must remain an open question until further material is 
available for study. 
Zelma miranda, sp. n. 
Length 4:0 mm. ; width 1:0 mm. 
Upperside grey: underside dark pitchy-red, legs a little 
lighter. Upper surface covered with a minute, sparse, and 
almost invisible pubescence. 
Head (1:20 mm. long) coarsely sculptured, surface uneven, 
two small tubercles on middle of front. Prothorax a little 
wider than head, sides almost parallel, with a row of small 
tubercles along the margin, front angles porrect, hind angles 
obliquely truncate, median line deep and widened out behind 
into the basal emargination: surface uneven and minutely 
