478 Mr. Hi. E. Andrewes on Oriental Carabide. 
joint 1 is not much longer than 2. In the ¢ the first three 
joints of the front tarsi are faintly dilated and biseriately 
squamose beneath. Claws simpie, much dilated at base. 
The name is derived from a Kanarese word meaning 
“ very small.” 
The above characters are largely those of Odacantha, but 
in that genus the paraglossee are wider, hardly longer than 
the ligula, adnate, though separated at apex from the ligula 
by a deep emargination. The chief difference, however, is 
in the thorax, which in Odacantha is very distinctly margined 
at sides over the front two-thirds. The elytra of this genus, 
too, are less convex and thie striz more finely punctate. The 
two genera are evidently closely allied, but the characters 
I have just mentioned seem to render them sufficiently 
distinct. 
Arame macra, sp. n. 
Length 6-6°5 mm. ; width 1°6-1°8 mm. 
Piceous. Palpi, first three joints of antennee (2 and 3 
sometimes infuscate), legs (except coxee and front trochanters), 
epipleure of elytra, and an ill-defined spot at apex (sometimes 
the whole of the apical third) reddish testaceous. 
Head about 1 mm. in width (length behind eye=13 times 
diameter of eye), convex, shiny, frontal foves well-marked, 
clypeus smooth, with a seta at each side, surface sparsely 
covered with coarse setiferous punctures, more closely in 
front, only a few behind level of eyes. 
Prothorax barrel-shaped, without front or hind angles, 
shiny, about as long as head and a little narrower, widest in 
middle, contracted at each extremity, but more so in front 
than behind, slightly constricted just before base, which has 
a smooth border ; side-margins obsolete, median furrow wide 
but not deep, surface covered with setiferous punctures, less 
closely on disk, the puncturation rather more dense than on 
head. 
Elytra moderately convex, parallel, as long as head and 
thorax taken together, joining prothorax by a short peduncle, 
shoulders a little oblique, apex nearly squarely truncate, 
punctate-striate, less strongly towards apex ; intervals 3, 5, 
and 7 each with a series of numerous small setiferous pores, 
the hairs standing out very clearly on unrubbed specimens 
viewed sideways. 
On the underside the abdomen is smooth, head with a few 
large punctures, all sterna (except middle of metasternum) 
densely and very coarsely punctate, prosternal process smooth, 
