Species of Carabidee from South Africa. 33 
Tribe Mori1on Int. 
Morio attenuatus, sp. x 
Length 13? mm.; width 44 mm.; width of prothorax 
3? mm. 
Jet-black, very shiny; palpi, mouth-parts, pectus, abdo- 
men, coxze, aud femora dark to picecus red. 
Head smooth, shiny ; clypeus broadly incised ; epistome 
emarginate, impressed centrally ; on either side, from between 
eyes and reaching to epistome, a long narrow sinuate groove; 
supra-ocular carine moderately developed ; antenne blaek, 
first three joints smooth, shiny, fourth a little pubescent 
apically, remainder densely clothed with dirty yellowish 
pubescence. 
Prothorax transverse, shiny, faintly plicate, declivous 
laterally and at front angles, anterior margin squarely 
truncate, its angles briefly rounded, sides gently ampliated 
to beyond middle, gently contracted and hardly simuate, 
thence to the acute posterior angles ; margins moderately 
reflexed, median line narrow and faintly punctate, lateral 
basal grooves and depressions moderately deep, base 
emarginate. 
Elytra elongate, narrow, a very little wider than pro- 
thorax, shoulders briefly rounded, dentate, sides straight, 
gently rounded towards apex, and a little sinuate at outer 
angles, narrowly striate, intervals smooth, a little raised 
laterally, margins with spaced punctures inside the epipleura, 
more closely set in the posterior parts, a puucture on the 
third interval, above the posterior declivity. 
Smaller and narrower than M. guineensis, Imhoff, and 
differentiated from it on the following points :—Apex of the 
prothorax straight, angles not projecting upwards, sides 
evenly rounded and more declivous, giving it a convex 
appearance. Supraocular carinze more rounded, less pro- 
minent ; anteunz relatively longer and more slender, joints 
less moniliform. ‘The coloration of the legs and underside 
are quite different. 
M. senegalensis, Lafert.; M. feronioides, Thoms. ; M. acuti- 
collis, Putz.; and M. anthracinus, Boh., are all placed as 
synonyms of J/. guineensis by Péringuey, so if he be correct 
they cannot refer to this species. Boheman gives the 
dimensions of his M. anthracinus as 13 mm. long by 5 mm. 
wide, which differentiates it as a much broader insect than 
attenuatus, mihi. 
The two examples in my possession (¢ and @ ) have been 
Ann. & Mag. N. Hist. Ser. 9. Vol. ix. 3 
