﻿Types 
  of 
  Oriental 
  Carabidae. 
  201 
  

  

  anything 
  more 
  than 
  Hope's 
  brief 
  diagnosis 
  has 
  ever 
  appeared, 
  

   so 
  I 
  give 
  a 
  description. 
  

  

  Catascopus 
  whithilli. 
  Length 
  20 
  mill. 
  Width 
  : 
  head 
  

   and 
  prothorax 
  4 
  mill, 
  elytra 
  6 
  mill. 
  

  

  Blue-violet; 
  middle 
  of 
  sterna, 
  ventral 
  surface 
  (hind 
  margins 
  of 
  

   segments 
  lighter), 
  epipleurae 
  of 
  elytra 
  (more 
  or 
  less), 
  coxae, 
  tro- 
  

   chanters, 
  underside 
  of 
  femora, 
  and 
  joints 
  5-1 
  1 
  of 
  antennae 
  reddish- 
  

   brown; 
  clypeus, 
  labrum, 
  palpi 
  and 
  joints 
  1-4 
  of 
  antennae 
  (apex 
  

   of 
  joints 
  lighter), 
  tibiae 
  and 
  tarsi 
  piceous. 
  

  

  Head 
  large, 
  shiny, 
  gradually 
  narrowed 
  behind 
  eyes, 
  moderately 
  

   punctate 
  on 
  vertex 
  and 
  at 
  sides, 
  frontal 
  foveae 
  short 
  but 
  moderately 
  

   deep, 
  a 
  single 
  short 
  ridge 
  pn 
  each 
  side 
  close 
  to 
  eye, 
  clypeus 
  with 
  a 
  

   seta 
  near 
  each 
  front 
  angle, 
  eyes 
  prominent, 
  mandibles 
  strong, 
  hooked 
  

   at 
  tip, 
  antennae 
  reaching 
  a 
  httle 
  beyond 
  base 
  of 
  prothorax, 
  pubescent 
  

   from 
  middle 
  of 
  joint 
  4. 
  

  

  Prothorax 
  cordate, 
  convex, 
  shiny, 
  moderately 
  transverse, 
  widest 
  

   at 
  a 
  fourth 
  from 
  apex, 
  emarginate 
  in 
  front, 
  faintly 
  bisinuate 
  behind, 
  

   sides 
  gently 
  rounded 
  in 
  front, 
  sinuate 
  long 
  before 
  base, 
  side 
  margin 
  

   narrowly 
  bordered 
  and 
  reflexed, 
  a 
  seta 
  at 
  a 
  third 
  from 
  apex 
  and 
  

   another 
  at 
  hind 
  angle; 
  front 
  angles 
  well 
  marked 
  but 
  roimded, 
  

   hind 
  angles 
  right, 
  base 
  with 
  a 
  narrow 
  border; 
  transverse 
  impres- 
  

   sions, 
  median 
  line, 
  and 
  basal 
  foveae 
  all 
  strongly 
  marked, 
  a 
  vague 
  

   shallow 
  impressed 
  line 
  running 
  parallel 
  with 
  side 
  margin 
  and 
  at 
  a 
  

   little 
  distance 
  from 
  it; 
  surface 
  smooth, 
  with 
  very 
  fine 
  transverse 
  

   wrinkles. 
  

  

  Elytra 
  relatively 
  short, 
  parallel, 
  very 
  square 
  at 
  shoulders, 
  sides 
  

   rather 
  compressed 
  and 
  margin 
  sinuate 
  at 
  a 
  third 
  from 
  base, 
  apical 
  

   truncature 
  emarginate, 
  outer 
  angle 
  toothed, 
  inner 
  angle 
  narrowly 
  

   truncate; 
  punctate-striate, 
  the 
  pimctures 
  much 
  stronger 
  at 
  sides, 
  

   a 
  rather 
  deep 
  scutellary 
  striole 
  between 
  1 
  and 
  suture, 
  intervals 
  rather 
  

   flat 
  on 
  disk, 
  faintly 
  depressed 
  at 
  about 
  first 
  third, 
  3 
  slightly 
  raised 
  

   over 
  a 
  short 
  distance 
  near 
  base, 
  5 
  and 
  7 
  carinate 
  up 
  to 
  two-fifths 
  

   from 
  apex, 
  a 
  pore 
  close 
  to 
  base 
  between 
  1 
  and 
  scutellary 
  striole, 
  

   3 
  with 
  five 
  pores 
  nearly 
  evenly 
  distributed 
  along 
  its 
  length, 
  marginal 
  

   pores 
  rather 
  far 
  apart, 
  closer 
  near 
  shoulder, 
  with 
  very 
  long 
  setae. 
  

  

  Underside 
  smooth, 
  shiny, 
  middle 
  of 
  sterna 
  and 
  base 
  of 
  first 
  ventral 
  

   segment 
  more 
  or 
  less 
  punctate 
  and 
  pilose, 
  prosternal 
  process 
  not 
  

   bordered, 
  pimctate 
  and 
  pilose, 
  metepisterna 
  long, 
  narrow, 
  smooth, 
  

   and 
  deeply 
  channelled, 
  last 
  ventral 
  segment 
  bordered 
  on 
  outer 
  

   margin, 
  a 
  seta 
  on 
  each 
  side 
  in 
  (^, 
  2 
  setae 
  in 
  $. 
  

  

  Tarsi 
  hairy 
  on 
  upper 
  surface, 
  <S 
  with 
  three 
  first 
  joints 
  of 
  front 
  

   tarsi 
  moderately 
  dilated, 
  and 
  clothed 
  beneath 
  with 
  white 
  filamentous 
  

   scales. 
  

  

  