294 My. H. E. Andrewes on Oriental Carabide. 
Mr. Severin has very kindly sent me from the Brussels 
Museum for examination four of Putzeys’ types of Miscelus, 
viz., M. unicolor (Java), M. vulneratus (Moluccas), M. para- 
doxus (Philippine Is.), and M. convewicollis (Borneo). The 
first of these was described before the others (Mem. Soc. 
Liége, 11. 1845, p. 375), and on a single specimen. The other 
three were described together (Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. 1875, 
pp. 724-5), and the author evidently had but little material 
at his disposal, though the specimens came from very 
different localities. In these circumstances he seems to me 
to have treated individual peculiarities as of specific value. 
To my eyes M. vulneratus, paradoxus, and convexicollis do 
not differ in any material way from javanus, and | consider 
them mere synonyms. Jf. unicolor I look upon as an un- 
spotted variety of the same species, identical with the 
subsequently described M. rufiventris, Walk. (Ann. & Mag. 
Nat. Hist. (3) 11. 1858, p. 202), and JL. ceylonicus, Chaud. 
(Berl. ent. Zeit- 1861, p. 125). 
The types of Putzeys’ two remaining species, M. luctuosus 
and M. stygicus (Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. 1875, pp. 725-6), 
both coming from New Guinea, are in the Genoa Museum, 
aud, thanks to the courtesy of Dr. Gestro, I have been able 
to examine them, Of the former, Putzeys gives a fairly 
long and detailed description, and I find it to be quite 
distinct, but I am not able at present to differentiate 
M. stygicus from M, unicolor. 
Schaufuss has also described two species, the types of 
which I have not seen, viz., M. celebensis and M. planatus 
(Hor. Soc. Ent. Ross. xix. 1885, pp. 183-4) ; the latter is 
stated by the author to be only a variety of yavanus, and I 
can see nothing in the description of the former to lead me 
think that it is really distinct from that species. 
The following table shows how the three species of this 
genus, which I have been able to recognise, may be dis- 
tinguished ; I have not referred to the apical red spot, which 
occurs only in javanus, and may be present or absent :— 
Key to the Species. 
1 (2). Eyes moderately prominent; prothorax 
with front angles rounded, projecting 
very little forwards, hind angles much 
rounded, base distinctly bordered; elytra 
with very square shoulders, apex of each 
elytron emarginate, the outer angle 
rounded, but forming a distinct blunt 
tooth, intervals not carinate, but outer 
ones Convex near base............0.:. luctuosus, Putz. 
