404 Mr. H. E. Andrewes on Oriental Carabide. 
XLVII.—Papers on Oriental Carabide.—VI. 
By H. E. AnpReweEs. 
OmMOoOPHRRONINI. 
Omophron chelys, sp. n. 
Length 4°0 mm. ; width 2°70 mm. 
Testaceous; head, prothorax (except margin), and an 
elytral pattern dark green ; clypeus, middle of front, border 
of prothorax and elytra, underside of head, and ventral sur- 
face (except last segment) brown ; sterna and episterna 
piceous. 
Head shiny, flat, moderately punctate at sides and back, 
smooth in middle, clypeus strongly bordered in front, sub- 
ocular ridges extending beyond buccal fissure and curving 
forwards at extremity, space between them and eyes rather 
coarsely punctate. 
Prothorax transverse, convex, shiny, base slightly bi- 
sinuate on each side, and emarginate on each side at apex; 
front angles acute and porrect, hind angles a little less than 
right, side-margin broadly reflexed, the testaceous colour 
extending but little inside it, a sight but noticeable break 
in the contour at the junction of prothorax and elytra; 
median line obsolete, surface moderately and uniformly 
punctate, reflexed margins smooth. “ 
Klytra convex, hardly longer than wide, not much dilated 
behind shoulders, 15-striate-punctate, the punctures evan- 
escent near apex, 8-4 and 7-8 not extending beyond two- 
thirds from base, 14 barely reaching one-third from base, 
intervals smooth and shiny ; the green pattern is in the form 
of a triangular patch, broad at base, where it extends on 
each side to stria 8, and gradually narrowing to a point at 
the apex,a broad square arm is sent out on each side 
at about middle to stria 13, a small dark spot on interval 12 
at about a sixth from apex, just opposite which the trian- 
gular patch is slightly dilated. 
Underside of head and ventral surface smooth, sides of 
latter and whole of sterna and episterna coarsely punctate, 
penultimate ventral segment bordered. In the tarsi (¢) 
joint 1 of the front pair is in the form of an enormous 
oblong plate, practically as long as joints 2-5, and twice as 
wide as the tibiz, pilose above, scaly beneath, joint 2 
slightly dilated; joint 1 of intermediate pair elongate, as 
long as joints 2-4, and as wide as tibie. 
