﻿Types 
  of 
  Oriental 
  Carabidae. 
  131 
  

  

  Mag. 
  Zool. 
  1872, 
  pp. 
  244-50) 
  did 
  not 
  think 
  it 
  worth 
  while 
  

   to 
  refer 
  to 
  the 
  type 
  of 
  the 
  genus. 
  I 
  give 
  a 
  detailed 
  descrip- 
  

   tion, 
  as 
  Kirby's 
  brief 
  diagnosis 
  appears 
  to 
  be 
  the 
  only 
  one 
  

   extant. 
  

  

  Catascopus 
  hardwicki. 
  Length 
  9 
  mill. 
  Width 
  : 
  head 
  

   2-0, 
  prothorax 
  1-75, 
  elytra 
  3-25 
  mill. 
  

  

  Pieeous, 
  upper 
  surface 
  of 
  head 
  and 
  prothorax 
  dark 
  blue, 
  sides 
  

   of 
  elytra 
  dark 
  aeneous 
  green, 
  mouth-parts 
  (excejjt 
  mandibles), 
  

   femora, 
  and 
  trochanters 
  brownish. 
  Surface 
  finely 
  shagreened. 
  

  

  Head 
  wide, 
  shiny, 
  finely 
  rugose 
  with 
  faint 
  puncturation, 
  smooth 
  

   on 
  neck, 
  bicarinate 
  on 
  each 
  side, 
  inner 
  ridge 
  running 
  forward 
  to 
  

   end 
  of 
  clypeal 
  suture, 
  frontal 
  margin 
  almost 
  straight 
  in 
  middle, 
  

   with 
  a 
  fine 
  short 
  longitudinal 
  incised 
  line 
  running 
  backwards 
  from 
  

   its 
  centre, 
  its 
  sides 
  forming 
  angular 
  projections; 
  clypeus 
  smooth, 
  

   emarginate, 
  with 
  a 
  seta 
  on 
  each 
  side, 
  labrum 
  porrect, 
  rounded 
  in 
  

   front, 
  with 
  a 
  small 
  excision, 
  eyes 
  very 
  prominent, 
  mandibles 
  strong, 
  

   hooked 
  at 
  tip. 
  

  

  Prothorax 
  a 
  little 
  wider 
  than 
  long, 
  widest 
  at 
  a 
  fourth 
  from 
  aj^ex, 
  

   slightly 
  emarginate 
  in 
  front 
  and 
  bisinuate 
  at 
  base, 
  sides 
  bordered 
  

   and 
  reflexed, 
  with 
  pores 
  at 
  a 
  third 
  from 
  apex 
  and 
  on 
  hind 
  angle 
  

   (setae 
  abraded), 
  gently 
  rounded 
  in 
  front, 
  strongly 
  and 
  widely 
  

   sinuate 
  behind, 
  front 
  angles 
  very 
  little 
  roimded, 
  but 
  not 
  projecting, 
  

   hind 
  angles 
  acute, 
  projecting 
  laterally, 
  and 
  a 
  little 
  reflexed, 
  base 
  

   bordered 
  (except 
  in 
  middle); 
  front 
  transverse 
  impression 
  shallow, 
  

   basal 
  one 
  deep, 
  median 
  line 
  deep, 
  forming 
  elongate 
  foveae 
  at 
  ex- 
  

   tremities, 
  reaching 
  base 
  but 
  not 
  apex, 
  basal 
  foveae 
  deep, 
  rounded, 
  

   close 
  to 
  hind 
  angles; 
  surface 
  shiny 
  with 
  fine 
  cross 
  wrinkles 
  and 
  

   extremely 
  fine 
  scattered 
  puncturation, 
  the 
  course 
  of 
  the 
  front 
  

   transverse 
  impression 
  finely 
  rugose. 
  

  

  Elytra 
  short, 
  square, 
  parallel, 
  about 
  three 
  times 
  as 
  long 
  as 
  thorax, 
  

   shoulders 
  well 
  marked, 
  margin 
  finely 
  bordered, 
  sinuate 
  at 
  a 
  third 
  

   from 
  base, 
  obliquely 
  truncate 
  at 
  apex, 
  truncature 
  slightly 
  emarginate, 
  

   outer 
  angle 
  quite 
  rounded, 
  inner 
  angle 
  narrowly 
  truncate, 
  extreme 
  

   apex 
  fairly 
  sharp; 
  striae 
  almost 
  impunctate 
  on 
  disk, 
  strongly 
  

   punctured 
  at 
  sides, 
  3 
  with 
  three 
  punctures 
  at 
  a 
  fifth, 
  a 
  half, 
  and 
  

   four-fifths 
  from 
  base 
  respectively, 
  a 
  short 
  stride 
  between 
  1 
  and 
  

   suture, 
  intervals 
  smooth, 
  the 
  three 
  imier 
  ones 
  fairly 
  flat, 
  4 
  raised 
  

   at 
  base 
  and 
  again 
  in 
  middle, 
  leaving 
  a 
  depressed 
  area 
  at 
  about 
  a 
  

   third 
  from 
  base, 
  which 
  extends 
  on 
  to 
  the 
  adjoining 
  intervals, 
  5 
  and 
  

   6 
  narrower, 
  the 
  former 
  carinate 
  on 
  its 
  middle 
  third, 
  7 
  very 
  narrow, 
  

   carinate 
  throughout, 
  a 
  marginal 
  series 
  of 
  large 
  umbiUcate 
  punctures, 
  

   interrupted 
  in 
  middle, 
  one 
  or 
  two 
  very 
  long 
  setae 
  issuing 
  from 
  them 
  

   (others 
  probably 
  abraded). 
  

  

  