Mr. H. E. AiKlrewes on Oriental Carabidaj. 453 



but also of tlie prothorax. In the Crypto morpJnncB there is a 

 groove on the underside of the head for the reception of (he 

 antennae, and in Scarites tliere is a shallow groove for the 

 scape only. I know of no other instance in the Carabidae of 

 such a groove on tlie prothorax as well as the head. Zehwi 

 is evidently related to Solenogenys, described by Westwood 

 in 1859 (Trans. Eut. Soc. Lond. p. 170) for S. fcecli, a species 

 taken by Bates on the Amazon. Apart from its larger size, 

 this bears a strong suporticial resemblance to Z. miranda, 

 though in many of its characters it is strikingly different. 

 In Solenogent/s both the eyes and the margins of the elytra 

 are visible from above, the antennal groove is confined to 

 the underside of the head, and does not extend to the pro- 

 thorax ; joint 3 of the antennae is much longer than 2 and 4, 

 and the pubescence begins at joint 3; the mentum is toothed, 

 the aj)ical joints of the palpi are less inflated, the median part 

 of the head is produced into a lobe beneath, the sides into two 

 elongate processes, bounding the antennal channels; the under 

 surface is not pitted, and the ventral segments are not trans- 

 versely channelled. 



With regard to the position of the two genera, I think that 

 the (apparent) absence of a seta in the mandibular scrobe, the 

 fossoriai front tarsi, the pedunculate prothorax, and the 

 insertion of the antennpe under frontal proji-ctions all point 

 to their inclusion among the Scaritini. Putzeys, in his 

 ''Revision Gen^rale des Olivinides " (Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg. 

 X. 1867), includes the genus Solenogenys, but does not 

 comment on its unusual characters. It is clear to me that 

 neither genus will fit either into the Scarites-gYo\\\) or the 

 C/jyma-group, and I see nothing for it but to form a new 

 Solenogenys-^vowTp. Whether this can be framed to include 

 Zelma must remain an open question until further material is 

 available for study. 



Zelma viiranda, sp. n. 



Length 4'0 mm. ; width 1*0 mm. 



Upperside grey : underside dark pitchy-red, logs a little 

 lighter. Upper surface covered with a minute, sparse, and 

 almost invisible pubescence. 



Head (1*20 mm. long) coarsely sculptured, surface uneven, 

 two small tul)crcle8 on middle of iVont. Prothorax a little 

 wider than head, sides almost parallel, with a row of small 

 tubercles along tlio margin, front angles porrect, hind angles 

 obliquely truncate, median line deep and widened out behind 

 into the basal emargination : surtaca uneven and minutely 



