Mr. H. E. Andrewes on Oriental Carabidse. 291 



angles ; surface moderately convex, closely punctate, mure 

 sparsely on disk, more coarsely aloiig base and front margin. 



Elytra moderately short and wide, nearly four times as 

 long as prothorax, with a long scutellary stria, a fine sulural 

 stria, and fifteen more or less crenulate stripe (punctate on 

 disk near base) ; a wide aciculate marginal area, in which 

 towards apex two further ill-defined striae can generally be 

 detected; primary intervals (4, 8, and 12) with a series of 

 shallow, brassy punctures, each with a fine raised point; all 

 intervals imbricate, but on the first two or three near base 

 the cross-lines are replaced by fine punctures ; interval 6 

 usually wider towards apex, with the surface irregularly 

 broken up. 



Underside coarsely punctate, more finely on middle of 

 ventral surface ; metasternum smooth, middle of prosternum 

 nearly so, the punctures more or less confluent on met- 

 episterna and sides of ventral surface, latter irregularly 

 depressed, last segment transversely striate ; grooves on pro- 

 sternal process not reaching apex, metepisterna hardly longer 

 than wide, a tuft of hairs on their outer margin near base. 



$ . Front tarsi with three dilated joints; intermediate tibiae 

 curved, hind tibiae straight, former densely clothed on inner 

 and middle of outer surface, latter on inner surface towards 

 apex with light brown hairs. 



£ . All tibiae straight, the intermediate ones clothed with 

 light brown hairs on middle of outer surface. 



The species belongs to Motchulsky's Caminara group, and 

 is closely allied to C. imbricatum, Klug, but a little larger; 

 the colour is almost identical. Head more coarsely punctate, 

 less noticeably striate near eyes; mandibles much more finely 

 striate, antennae thicker; prothorax more coarsely punctate, 

 a little less contracted behind ; punctures on the primary 

 intervals of the elytra less numerous; underside much more 

 coarsely sculptured, intermediate tibiae (<^) more curved. 



N. India, United Provinces: Mondali, Kathian, Molta, 

 and Bodyar, all Jaunsar Himalayas, 7500-8000' (C. F. C. 

 Beeson). Thano, Dehra Dun District, 4000'. Kalela 

 Forest, Simla Division, " found eating the deodar's defo- 

 liating caterpillar." 11 ex., £ ? . All Forest Research 

 Institute, Dehra Dun. 



N.W. Himalayas (E. P. Stebbing) 5 ex., all very defective. 

 British Museum. 



The type (Beeson) is in the British Museum, 



