474, Mr. H. E. Andrewes on Oriental Carabide. 
PRAKASHA, gen. nov. 
In Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. 1892, p. 333, Bates described 
Platymetopus (2?) amariformis, but remarked at the end of the 
description, ‘“‘The head is small and presents none of the 
peculiarities of the typical Platymetopi.” The genus is 
nearer Dioryche than Platymetopus, but the form of the head 
and some other characters render a new genus necessary. 
The ligula and paraglosse are as in Dioryche, mentum 
without tooth, but with the emargination thickened in 
middle ; penultimate joint of labial palpi plurisetose. Form 
broad, surface smooth, colour eneous. Head small, smooth, 
convex, not depressed in front, clypeus only slightly emar- 
ginate, not exposing basal membrane of labrum; frontal 
foveze small, curving outwards behind and continuing as a 
fine line to the eye ; antenne hardly reaching base of pro- 
thorax, very finely pubescent from middle of joint 3; eyes 
prominent. Llytral intervals 3, 5, and 7 with a row of 
punctures. Tarsi smooth on upper surface ; front and inter- 
mediate tarsi in g with four moderately dilated joints, 1 
rectangular, 2, 3, and 4 triangular, biseriately squamose 
beneath. ‘ 
The generic name is derived from a Kanarese word 
meaning ‘‘ lustre.” 
P. amariformis, Bates, from Kawkareet (Tenasserim) and 
Taun-ngu, is the genotype and sole representative of the 
genus. 
Amblystomus vittatus, Bates, Aun. Soc. Ent. Belg. 1892, 
p. 231. 
The name is preoccupied by A. vittatus, Gestro, Ann. Mus. 
Civ. Gen. 1875, p. 885, and for Bates’s species I propose the 
name of A. bivittatus. 
Anoplogenius patinalis, Bates, Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. 1892, 
p. 3846==Lepithriz foliolosus, Nietn. Journ. As. Soc. 
Beng. 1857, ii. p. 152= Anoplogenius discophorus, Chaud. 
Bull. Mose. 1852, 1. p. 90. 
Acupalpus marginatus, Bates (not Lucas), Trans. Ent. Soc. 
Lond. 1883, p. 241. 
A note by Mr. Bedel, in his Cat. rais. des Col. du Nord 
de l’Afr. 1899, p. 158, note (2), induced me to examine the 
example in the British Museum, which I find to be A. 
dorsalis, F. 
