Mr. H. E. Andre wes on Oriental Carabidse. 9 



Downing, 5 ex., T. V. Campbell, 1 ex.). Mr. Djwning'a 

 specimens were taken at Hulikal; Dr. Campbell's specimen 

 is in Mr. E. A. Butler's collection. 



British Museum, 3 ex., labelled respectively "India" 

 " S. India," and " Nilgiris." 



The type {<$) is in my collection. 



Chlcenius nilgiricns } $ ? . 



Length 16*0 mm. ; width 6*0 mm. 



Black; head dark green, prothorax green on disk, darker 

 (blue, purple, or blackish) on margin, elytra blue-black ; 

 femora, upperside of front tibise, and first joint of antenna 

 fiavous, rest of legs and antennas and mouth-parts dark red. 



Head (3 mm. wide), including clypeus, finely punctate, 

 longitudinally^ striate near eyes, which are only moderately 

 prominent, joint 3 of antennae sparsely pilose, about one- 

 third as long again as 4. 



Prothorax flat, quadrate, as long as wide (4*25 mm.), a 

 little emarginate at extremities, about equally and very little 

 contracted before and behind, sides very gently rounded 

 angles distinct but rounded ; median line fine, transverse 

 impressions visible in middle only, basal foveas short but 

 deep, parallel, not reaching base, but merging in a depressed 

 area adjoining basal angles ; surface shiny, minutely punctu- 

 late, uniformly but sparsely covered with larger (though still 

 small) punctures, minutely striate along both basal and* apical 

 margins. 



Elytra ovate, moderately convex, more than twice as long 

 as prothorax, widest just behind middle, border angled at 

 shoulder, punctulate-striate, with a well-maiked row of 

 setiferous punctures along each side of the stride, intervals 

 only moderately convex, the pubescence hardly noticeable. 



Underside shiny, presternum rugose at sides, process very 

 finely bordered at apex, episterna with some punctures on 

 inner side, sides of metasternum and the episterna rather 

 coarsely, sides of ventral surface more finely and sparsely 

 punctate, metepisterna rather longer than wide ; tarsi glabrous 

 on upper surface. 



In the puncturation of the head and the form of the 

 prothorax the species resembles C. apollo, but the insect is 

 a larger one, the eyes are more prominent, the prothorax a 

 little less sparsely punctate, the form of the basal foveas 

 different, the elytra longer, narrower, less convex, and with 

 a^longer scutellary stiiole. Compared with the better-known 

 C. quadriculor, the head is larger and much more closely 



