Mr. II. E. Andrewes on Oriental Carabicla3. 451 



pits on sides of disk in front practically obsolete, base more 

 closely punctate. Elytra less elongate, shoulders rather less 

 cut away, intervals more convex, the front punctuios on 

 interval 7 wanting (but in the c^" specimen it is present 

 on the right elytron). Front of proepisterna inipunctate. 



United Provinces : W. Alniora Division, Sunderdhunga 

 Valley, 8000'-12,000', June 1919, 2 ex., (? ? (77. G. Cham- 

 pion). The type ( c? ) has been presented by Mr. Champion 

 to the British Museum. 



SCAEITINI. 



Zelma, gen. nov. 



Lhjula very small, Jiarrow, (apparently) glabrous, concealed 

 behind the supports of the labial palpi : parcujlossie not visible. 

 Maxdhe short, apex slender and glabrous, hooked, inner 

 margin densely ciliate. Palpi very short and, when in situ^ 

 more or less concealed : maxillaries glabrous, apical joint three 

 times as long as penultimate, tapering almost from base to 

 extremity : labials with last joint a little longer than pen- 

 ultinuite, inflated at base and tapering sharply to apex, which 

 is finely truncate, ])enultimate with two setse on inner margin 

 near base. Meutum finely rugose, a little wider than long, 

 moderately excised in front, base of excision straight, (appa- 

 rentlv) without tooth, epilobes very Avide, the ridge separating 

 them from the lobes extending to base of mentum, two large 

 ])ores near base of central part, which (viewed fioni below) 

 is depressed; lobes pointed, more or less bordered, slightly 

 rounded at sides, apex very obliquely truncate, surface pitted. 

 Mandiiles (apparently) without seta in scrobe, short, slightly 

 curved, sharply pointed, with a rough inner edge. Labrum 

 vi ry short, front margin arcuate, sex-setose, but with some 

 additional setre at sides. Antenme arising beneath a frontal 

 plate, just before the eyes, inuuiliform, not quite reaching 

 base of prothorax, joint 1 robust, a little longer than (each of) 

 2, 3, 4:, and 11, which are about e(|ual, remaindtn- about two- 

 thirds as long, pubescent from joint 2 (inclii.sivo), more 

 densely so after first third of joint ■!. JItad flat, semicircular, 

 widest at base, which is emarginalc in the middle to receive 

 a prtjection of the prothorax, margin uneven, more or less 

 serrate, bisinuate at sides, with deep fiontal depressions, 

 clypeal suture invisil»le; eyes invisible frou) above, coarsely 

 facetted, sunk in sides of head, between them and buccal 

 fissure (which is rej)roseMted by a tine groove up to the in- 

 sertion of antcnnie) intervene fir. t a deep groove, tor the 



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