Mr. H. E. Andrewes on Oriental Carabidee. 11 



elytra much more convex and more coarsely punctured in cf , 

 very similar in ? . 



Ceylon, Diyatalawa, 3. viii. 1908 {T. B.Fletcher), 1 <J , 

 2 ? ? ; 



British Museum. 



Chlcenius opacipennis, Chaud. " Mon. des Chl4nien3/' Ann. 

 Mus. Civ. Gen. 1876, p. 176. 



Chaudoir described this species from two Bengal examples 

 (<£ ? ), but gives no hint of any difference in the sexes. I 

 have before me seven examples, four males and three females, 

 which I am convinced belong to the same species, but I find 

 rather marked sexual differences. Chaudoir' s description, as 

 far as it goes, applies very well to the females, but the male 

 insect is narrower, flatter, and much more brightly coloured ; 

 the head and prothorax do not differ much, but the elytra are 

 not so opaque, the intervals are moderately convex, and the 

 puncturation is coarser and more conspicuous. The side- 

 margins of the prothorax are blue in front, the sides and 

 apex of the elytra violet-blue, green on the shoulder. 



<J cJ . India and N.W. India, 2 ex., British Museum ; 

 Central Provinces {Gen. Hearsey), lex., Hope Dept. Oxford 

 Univ. Museum. Bengal, Chapra (Mackenzie), 1 ex., Agric. 

 .Research Inst., Pusa. 



? ? . Bengal, Barkura, eating millipede, 1 ex., Agric. 

 liesearch Inst., Pusa. Central Provinces, Nagpur (E. A. 

 IfAbreu), 1 ex. Central Mus., Nagpur. United Provinces, 

 Sitapur (//. O. Champion), 1 ex. 



Chlamius henry i f £ . 



Length 15'5 mm.; width 6 mm. 



Black; head and prothorax with an Aeneous tinge, green 

 at margins ; joints 1-3 of antennae and legs testaceous, tarsi, 

 labium, and mouth-parts brown. 



Head convex, coarsely and rugosely punctate, neck and 

 middle of front nearly smooth, clypeus smooth, with an 

 oblique rugose depression at each side, labrum strongly 

 emarginate, eyes fairly prominent, antennas thick, joint 3 a 

 little longer than 4. 



Prothorax moderately convex, a third as wide again as 

 head, length to width as 3 to 4, widest rather behind middle, 

 base slightly emarginate, apex truncate, narrower at apex 

 than base, sides gently rounded, border narrow and a little 

 reflexed, hind angles obtuse and rounded ; median line very 



