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ventral surface without transverse furrows. Front tibie 
with three teeth (including apical tooth) but without denti- 
culations ; mid-tibie with one spine. ‘Type of genus : 
Scaritoderus loyole, Fairm., 
Scaritoderus loyole, Fairm. Bull. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1883, p. 55. 
Scaritoderus loyole, Andy. Ann. & Mag. N. H. (9) iii. 1919, p. 469. 
Crepidopterus favret, Maindr. Bull. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1904, p. 269, fig. 
In his ‘ Monographie des Scaritides” (Ann. Soc. Ent. 
Belg. xxii. 1879, p. 156) Chaudoir published the genus 
Anomoderus for A. costato-granulatas, a species from New 
Caledonia. Fauvel, finding the name of Chaudoir’s genus 
was preoccupied, changed it to Anomophenus (Rev. d’ Ent. i. 
1882, p. 229) ; Atkinson in his Catalogue of Oriental Cara- 
bide (Journ. As. Soc. Beng. 1890, Suppl. i. p. 18) says that 
Fauvel’s name is also preoccupied, but I cannot find that this 
is the case. When Fairmaire published his Searitoderus 
loyole, he too had discovered that Anomoderus was a pre- 
occupied name, and he suggested Scaritoderus to replace it ; 
he pointed out some differences between the Indian and New 
Caledonian species, but left them in the same genus. As 
Fauvel’s name is anterior to Fairmaire’s, Anomophenus must 
stand for the New Caledonian species, and Scaritoderus 
becomes a synonym of it. 
It is in these circumstances that I propose the new genus 
described above for the Indian species. It differs in some 
important points from Anomophenus: the tooth of the 
mentum is almost quadrate, a narrow slit on each side 
separating it from the lobes, the penultimate joint of the 
labial palpi is sex-setose, the first joint of the antennz equal 
in length to the four succeeding ones, sides of prothorax 
dentate, base only slightly produced, &e. 
LXI.—Fossil Arthropods in the British Museum.—Il. 
By 'T. D. A. Cockergtx, University of Colorado, 
[Plate XVL.] 
COLEOPTERA. 
Carabide. 
Carabites gardneri, sp.n. (Pl. XVI. fig. 10.) 
Elytron 16°8 mm. long, 5°5 mm. wide; base truncate, 
apex narrowed, but obtuse at tip; the outer margin 
strongly concave just before the end. Outer margin with 
