﻿Types 
  of 
  Oriental 
  Carahidae. 
  203 
  

  

  lost. 
  I 
  think 
  this 
  species 
  is 
  identical 
  with 
  Chaudoir's 
  

   C. 
  sguamigerum 
  (Ann. 
  Soc. 
  Ent. 
  Fr. 
  1869, 
  368). 
  Hope's 
  

   description 
  here 
  is 
  a 
  little 
  thin, 
  but 
  as 
  far 
  as 
  it 
  goes 
  it 
  agrees 
  

   fairly 
  with 
  Chaudoir's, 
  and 
  no 
  other 
  species 
  of 
  Calosoma 
  

   is 
  known 
  as 
  yet 
  from 
  Central 
  and 
  Southern 
  India. 
  Hope's 
  

   type 
  came 
  from 
  Poona, 
  and 
  Chaudoir's 
  two 
  specimens 
  

   came 
  from 
  Bengal 
  and 
  Coimbatore 
  (Madras). 
  I 
  have 
  

   records 
  also 
  from 
  Khandwa 
  (Central 
  Provinces), 
  Nasik 
  

   (Bombay), 
  and 
  Manaparai 
  (Madras). 
  

  

  8. 
  Chlaenius 
  sykesi 
  (I.e. 
  93, 
  t. 
  13, 
  f. 
  2). 
  Until 
  quite 
  

   recently 
  I 
  beheved 
  that 
  this, 
  like 
  the 
  other 
  Sykes 
  types, 
  

   was 
  lost, 
  but 
  it 
  has 
  turned 
  up 
  in 
  the 
  Hope 
  Collection, 
  

   though 
  in 
  a 
  very 
  battered 
  condition. 
  The 
  species 
  belongs 
  

   to 
  the 
  group 
  designated 
  HomalolacJinus 
  by 
  I^aferte 
  (Ann. 
  

   Soc. 
  Ent. 
  Fr. 
  1851, 
  233 
  and 
  293) 
  ; 
  and 
  retained 
  by 
  Chaudoir 
  

   in 
  his 
  Monograph. 
  Chaudoir 
  did 
  not 
  possess 
  it, 
  and 
  omits 
  

   all 
  reference 
  to 
  it, 
  as 
  does 
  the 
  Munich 
  Catalogue 
  (see 
  Bates, 
  

   Notes 
  Leyd. 
  Mus. 
  xi, 
  1889, 
  207). 
  It 
  is 
  closely 
  alhed 
  to 
  

   C. 
  sexfunctahis 
  Dej. 
  (Spec. 
  Gen. 
  v, 
  1831, 
  616) 
  from 
  Abys- 
  

   sinia, 
  but 
  even 
  more 
  closely 
  to 
  C. 
  panagaeoides 
  Laf. 
  (I.e. 
  

   235) 
  from 
  Malabar. 
  The 
  type 
  came 
  from 
  Poona, 
  and 
  I 
  

   took 
  another 
  example 
  ($) 
  also 
  at 
  Poona 
  in 
  the 
  year 
  1887 
  ; 
  

   a 
  third 
  example 
  ($) 
  in 
  the 
  British 
  Museum 
  is 
  labelled 
  

   " 
  India 
  " 
  only. 
  I 
  give 
  below 
  a 
  detailed 
  description, 
  but 
  

   as 
  the 
  type 
  is 
  too 
  fragmentary 
  for 
  this 
  purpose, 
  I 
  have 
  

   described 
  my 
  own 
  specimen, 
  after 
  comparing 
  it, 
  as 
  far 
  as 
  

   circumstances 
  permit, 
  with 
  the 
  type. 
  

  

  Chlaenius 
  sykesi, 
  2. 
  Length 
  19 
  mill. 
  Width 
  : 
  head 
  3*5, 
  

   prothorax 
  5*5, 
  elytra 
  8 
  mill. 
  

  

  Black, 
  underside 
  iridescent. 
  Head 
  aeneous 
  -green, 
  prothorax 
  

   with 
  faint 
  greenish 
  reflections, 
  elytra 
  sericeous, 
  three 
  spots 
  on 
  each 
  

   elytron 
  and 
  labrum 
  yellow, 
  first 
  three 
  joints 
  of 
  antennae 
  and 
  tips 
  

   of 
  palpi 
  red.. 
  Upper 
  surface 
  covered, 
  but 
  not 
  at 
  all 
  densely, 
  with 
  

   a 
  pubescence 
  of 
  short 
  black 
  and 
  yellow 
  hairs. 
  

  

  Head 
  convex, 
  moderately 
  shiny, 
  not 
  contracted 
  behind, 
  coarsely 
  

   but 
  not 
  closely 
  punctate, 
  with 
  a 
  few 
  finer 
  punctures, 
  frontal 
  foveae 
  

   very 
  faint, 
  slightly 
  furrowed 
  near 
  eyes, 
  a 
  large 
  pore 
  and 
  seta 
  on 
  

   each 
  side 
  of 
  clypeus, 
  midway 
  between 
  base 
  and 
  apex; 
  last 
  joint 
  

   of 
  maxillary 
  palpi 
  moderately, 
  of 
  labial 
  palpi 
  more 
  strongly 
  dilated, 
  

   eyes 
  rather 
  flat, 
  antennae 
  reaching 
  beyond 
  base 
  of 
  thorax, 
  joint 
  3 
  

   two 
  and 
  a 
  half 
  times 
  as 
  long 
  as 
  1, 
  half 
  as 
  long 
  again 
  as 
  4. 
  

  

  Prothorax 
  convex, 
  moderately 
  transverse, 
  widest 
  rather 
  behind 
  

   middle, 
  narrower 
  at 
  apex 
  than 
  base, 
  truncate 
  at 
  extremities, 
  sides 
  

  

  