500 Mr. IT. E. Andrewes en Oriental Carabida?. 



puncturation is very irregular, especially towards apex ; 

 interval 8 wider than the others and quite irregularly punc- 

 tate, umbilicate punctures on 9 very irregularly disposed 

 behind shoulder ; orange-coloured spot transverse, placed 

 just before middle, covering intervals 3-7, the colour on 5 

 projecting slightly both before and behind. Underside of 

 head with only a few punctures ; mesosternum smooth ; 

 metepisterna very narrow. 



Closely allied to M. astericus, White, but with a transverse 

 instead of a cruciform spot on the elytra. Head a good deal 

 wider, genge longer and more conspicuous, prof borax narrower, 

 sides more rounded in front, more sinuate behind, sides of 

 base more emarginate and the hind angles sharper (but the 

 form of the hind angles is a little variable, and they arc 

 blunter in the type than in some other specimens), intervals 

 of elytra more or less smooth and shiny in middle, at least 

 over front half (in M. astericus the whole surface is punctate 

 and sometimes even rugose in front). 



Nilgiri Hills: Ouchterlony Valley, August, 3000'-3500' 

 " in planting pit (tea) " {H. L. Andrewes), 2 ex. — My collec- 

 tion (type). 



Malabar, Coimbatore, 3 ex. — British Museum. 



Bengal : Giridih ; Madras : Vizagapatam ; Bombay : N. 

 Kanara, Castle Rock (S. W. Kemp), 3 ex. — Indian Museum. 



Bengal : Pusa, 1 ex. — Pusa Agric. Res. Inst. 



United Provinces: W. Dehra Dun, Jhajra (V. S. Iyer), 

 1 ex. — Forest Res. Inst. 



Central Provinces : Nagpur, 1000' {E. A. D'Ahreu), 1 ex. 

 — Nagpur Mus. 



Macrochilus astericus, White. 



Length 14*5 mm. 



This species has already been described twice ; it is very 

 closely allied to M. niger described above, and I have already 

 pointed out the differences which exist at the end of my 

 description of that species. 



Macrochilus vitalisi, sp. n. 



Length 12-5-14-0 mm. ; width 3'75 mm. 



Piceous ; a median spot on each elytron, labrum, joint 1 of 

 antennas, and femora testaceous, mouth-parts, rest of legs, 

 and antennas brownish. 



Head (2'40 mm. wide) moderately convex, coarsely but 

 not closely punctate, gena3 large, sloping gently to neck ; 

 ligula rather small, nearly rectangular, but with front margin 



