THE ANNALS 



AND 



MAGAZINE OF NATURAL HTSTOKY. 



[NINTH SERIES.] 



No. 36. DECEMBER 1920. : 



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HFC 23 1920 







LVIII. — Papers on Oriental Carabidas. — V. 

 By H. E. Andkewes. 



Helluonini. 



Genus Macrochilus and a new Genus. 



I was hoping to deal in this paper with all the Eastern 

 genera of this group, but there are difficulties at present in 

 identifying the species of the genus Omphra, and I confine 

 myself therefore to describing some new species of the genus 

 Macrochilus and also a new genus and species. 



The genus Macrochilus was indicated by Hope in his 

 ' Colcopterist's Manual/ and hitherto seven Oriental species 

 have been described. To these I am adding four new ones. 

 I havo included Bates's ill. infuscatus in my " Catalogue of 

 Species," but its author hardly regarded it as distinct from 

 M. trimaculatuSf Oliv., and I have omitted it from the " Table 

 of Species." 



In describing his M. nigrotibialis in 1900 (Abh. Mus. 

 Dresd. ix. 5, p. 3), Dr. Heller gave a table of the Asiatic 

 species of the genus, and enumerated ten of them : of these, 

 two (dorsalis, King, and scapularis, Klug) are African species, 

 one (distactus, Wied.) is a Creagris i and one (iripustulatus, F.) 

 belongs to the genus Pheropsophus. 



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