8 Mr. H. E. Andrewes on Oriental Carabida?. 



coarselyand sparsely punctate, and the sinuation of the sides 

 before the hind angles, though slight, is more evident. 



Bombay, Belgaum, 6 ex. <$ ? ; I took these at the end of 

 May 1886 on the .banks of a small pool near the village 

 of tudia. Bombay, North Kanara (T. R. D. Bell), 2 ex., S • 



The type is in my collection. 



Chlamius apollo. 



Length 12-0-14-5 mm. ; width 4"75-5'5 mm. 

 Black ; head and prothorax blue-green, latter usually blue 

 at margins and green on disk, elytra dark blue; femora 

 flavous, rest of legs, antenna?, palpi, and mouth-parts reddish. 

 Head (2'5 mm. wide) convex, uniformly and very finely 

 punctate, frontal fovea? punctiform, eyes flat, joint 3 of 

 antenna? sparsely pilose, half as long again as 4, palpi 

 slender. 



Prothorax rather flat, quadrate, as long as wide (3-5 mm.), 

 broadly emarginate at both extremities and not much con- 

 tracted, a little narrower in front than behind, sides very 

 gently rounded, with a narrow reflexed border, hind angles 

 rounded but well marked, sides of base advancing towards 

 them ; median line fine, transverse impressions moderate, 

 basal fovea? elongate, deep, curving backwards towards hind 

 angles, surface glabrous and shiny, minutely punctulate, with 

 some larger scattered punctures (almost wanting in the type), 

 base longitudinally striate. 



Elytra rather short, ovate, wider in $ than in <$ , not 

 more than twice as long as prothorax, border sharply angled 

 at shoulder, gradually increasing in width up to three-filths 

 from base, rounded at apex; punctulate-striate, with a row 

 -of faintly indicated setiferous punctures on each side of the 

 stria?, the seta? minute, an umbilicate pore near base of stria 1, 

 intervals moderately convex, surface dull, interval 8 more 

 evidently punctate. 



Underside almost smooth and glabrous, metasternum, its 

 episterna, and sides of ventral surface at base faintly punc- 

 tate, prosternal process bordered at apex, metepisterna as long- 

 as wide. Dilated joints of front tarsi (<J) rather longer than 

 wide, glabrous on upper surface. 



Allied to C. quadricolor, but front tarsi ( (J) with rather 

 narrower joints and metepisterna no longer than wide. The 

 very fhit eyes, uniformly punctate head, nearly square pro- 

 thorax, and short wide elytra distinguish this species from 

 most other members of the group. 



Nilgiri Hills, 6000' {II. L. Andrewes, 4 ex., A. K. Weld 



