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" perlitoraspargite museum, 



Naiades, et eirciim vitreos eonsidite fontes : 

 l'olliee virgineo teneros hie carpite flores: 

 Floribus et pietum, divse, replete canistrum. 

 At toS, o Nyniphse Craterides, ite sub undas ; 

 Ite, reeurvato variata corallia truuco 

 Vellite museosis e rupibus, et mihi conchas 

 Ferte, Deas pelagi, et pingui eonehylia suseo." 



N.Parthenii Giannettuei, Kol. 1. 



No. 19. JULY 1919. 



I. — Papers on Oriental Carabidai. — II. 

 By H. E. Andrewes. 



Jn this paper I am describing some new species of Chhenius, 

 all of them either from India or from adjoining- countries, and 

 giving a few notes on old ones. It is now more than forty 

 years since Chaudoir published (Ann. Mus. Crv. Gen. 1876) 

 his Monograph on this genus and its allies, and since then a 

 large number of new species have been described, chiefly — as 

 far as Oriental species go — by H. W. Bates. A general 

 revision is much to be desired, especially in view of certain 

 defects in the synoptic table preceding the Monograph, viz. : — 



(1) Chaudoir broke up the genus into groups, not into species 

 (although some of the groups contain only a single species). 



(2) The table, on its second page, goes quite to pieces ; the 

 signs used do not properly correspond, and this section is 

 therefore of little use. I hope at some future date to tabulate 

 the Eastern species, but there are as yet too many of them of 

 which I have not seen examples. In the following descrip- 

 tions the extreme measurements of the specimens examined 

 are given after the name ; any measurements given in the 

 eourse of the description are those of the type-specimen. 



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