Mr. H. E. Andrewes on Oriental Carabidee. 293 
intervals rather narrower than even ones, | slightly raised, 
3-5-7 carinate, more strongly so near base and 5-7 more 
strongly than 3, 3 with a single setiferous pore close to apex, 
surface with a faint line of minute punctures along middle 
of intervals. Beneath thé head bears some long sete, the 
prosternal process is cuneiform, pointed at apex, the surface 
generally finely and rather sparsely punctate, very shortly 
pubescent. 
The shining surface and carinate elytra at once distin- 
guish this species from M. javanus, Klug. In the new 
species the eyes are more prominent, the prothorax narrower 
and with distinctly bordered base, the elytra longer, with 
intervals of different widths, and no apical red spot. 
Laos: Pou Bia, Ban Sai, Xieng Khouang, Pia Hat, Muong 
Pek, and Pou Mi (R. Vitalis de Salvaza). Assam: Garo 
Hills, Tura, 3500-3900 ft. (S. W. Kemp, Ind. Mus.). The 
type is in the British Museum. 
I may mention here one or two generic characters which 
seem hitherto to have escaped attention. Inthe ¢ there is 
on the underside of the front femora near the base a rounded 
tubercle, bearing a dense brush of brownish hairs. The sides 
of the mesosternum are cariniform ; the carine are simple 
in luctuosus, generally a little serrate in M. javanus, but in 
the species now described the serration is marked and ends 
behind in a well-defined tooth. On the margin of the apical 
ventral segment there is in the ¢ a single pair of setx, rather 
widely distant ; in the ? there is in addition a second pair, 
nearer the middle and at some little distance from the 
margin. 
Miscelus javanus, Klug, Jahrb. Ins. 1834, p. 82, t. 1. f. 9; 
Andr. Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1919, p. 183. 
Bates (Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1889, p. 283) records M. 
ceylonicus, Chaud., from Mytho in Cochin-China: I have 
examined this specimen, now in Mr. Flentiaux’s collection ; 
it has the customary red apical spot of Javanese examples, 
and does not seem to me to differ from M. javanus. Mr. 
Vitalis de Salvaza has taken a considerable number of 
specimens in different parts of Laos, which appear to belong 
to this species, though on average they are distinctly darker 
than examples from India and Java. The apical red spot 
is sometimes present, sometimes absent ; when present it is 
frequently very faint. 
This species and M. carinatus described above are the only 
representatives of the genus known at present in Indo-China. 
