Mr. H. E. Andrewes on Oriental Carabide. 405 
A little larger and a little more elongate than O. bretting- 
hame, Pasc., the puncturation of head, prothorax, and 
elytral striz much coarser; the elytral pattern almost 
exactly reproducing that of O. aziliaris, Chaud., but the 
median arms are not contracted at the junction with the 
main triangular patch, and the small hind arms are reduced 
to small spots. 
British Sikkim : Gopaldhara, 3500’, 1 ex., ¢ (H. Stevens). 
In my collection. | 
Omophron smaragdus, sp. u. 
Length 6:0-6°5 mm, 
Upperside dark green; front of head, clypeus, and 
labrum, front and side-margins of prothorax, with a patch 
on each side of base, a pattern on elytra, antenne, palpi, 
legs (except cox), and apex of venter testaceous: under- 
side more or less piceous. 
Head flat, as long (with mandibles) as wide (1°9 mm.), 
clypeus quadrisetose (as in O. maculosus, Chaud.), trans- 
versely strigose in front, angularly emarginate behind, 
middle of front smooth, minutely striate near eyes, coarsely 
punctate behind, subocular ridges not reaching beyond 
buccal-fissure, surface between them and eyes fiuely rugose- 
striate ; joint 1 of antennz bisetose, joints 3-4 setose on 
outer margin. 
Prothorax slightly convex, transverse (2°0x 3:2 mm.), 
sides gradually narrowed in front, slightly sinuate before 
hind angles, all angles acute, surface coriaceous, moderately 
and rather irregularly punctate, with some very coarse 
punctures along the base. 
Elytra very convex, a little longer than wide (4°2 x 4°6 mm.), 
sharply widened behind shoulders and then evenly rounded 
to apex ; 15-punctate-striate, strie fairly deep, with punc- 
tures well-marked to near apex, 3 joiming 4 and 7 joining 8 
at a sixth from apex, where they cease, 11 joining 12 at 
same level, the joint stria continuing to near apex ; intervals 
smooth and moderately convex, more strongly so towards 
sides, but under a powerful lens an irregular row of minute 
points is visible down the centre of each interval; each 
elytron bears three irregular testaceous patches, the front 
one extending from stria 6 to margin, more or less inter- 
rupted on interval 10, and gradually widening outwards, 
the middle one from stria 3 to margin, more or less inter- 
rupted on intervals 6 and 10, the inner much narrower than 
the outer portion, the colour on 7-9 in advance of the 
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