On Possil Aithropoth iu the British Museum. 455 



ventral surface without transverse furrows. Front tibiae 

 with three teeth (includinrr apical tooth) hut without tlcnti- 

 ciilations ; niid-tihiie witli one spine. Type ot" genus : 

 <Scaritoderus loyohe^ Fairni. 



Scaritoderus loyolfP, Fairm. Bull. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1883, p. 55. 

 Scaritodei-us loi/olcp, Andr. Ann. & May-. N. II. (9) iii. 1919, p. 400. 

 Crepidopterus fuvrei, Maiudr. Bull. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1904, p. 209, tig. 



In his " Monographie des Scaritides " (Ann. Soc. Ent. 

 Belg. xxii. 1879, p. 15G) Chaudoir published the genus 

 Anomoderxis for A. costato-granulatas, a sj)ecies from Now 

 Caledonia. Fanvel, finding the name of Chaudoir's genus 

 was preoccupied, changed it to Anomophamtis (Rev. d'I^]nt. i. 

 1882, p. 229) ; Atkinson in his Catalogue of Oriental Cara- 

 bidae (Journ. As. Soc. Beng. 1890, Suppl. i. p. 18) says that 

 Fauvel's name is also preoccupied, but I cannot find that this 

 is the case. When Fairmairo published his Scaritoderus 

 loyoJce, he too had discovered that Anomodenis was a pro- 

 occupied name, and he suggested Scaritoderus to replace it ; 

 he pointed out some differences between the Indian and New 

 Caledonian species, but left them in the same genus. As 

 Fauvel's name is anterior to Fairmaire's, Anomophcenus must 

 stand for the New Caledonian species^ and Scaritoderus 

 becomes a synonym of it. 



It is in these circumstances that I propose the new genus 

 described above for the Indian .'♦[jecies. It differs in some 

 important points from Anomophienus : the tooth of the 

 mentum is almost quadrate, a narrow slit on each side 

 separating' it from the lobes, the ijenultimate joint of the 

 labial palpi is sex-setose, the first joint of the antennaj equal 

 in length to the four succeeditig ones, sides of prothorax 

 dentate, base only slightly produced, &c. 



L.X^I. — Fussil Arthropods in the British Museum. — II. 

 Jiy r. D. A. CocKKRELL, University of Colorado. 



[Plate XVI.] 



C O L E O PT E R A. 



Carabidae. 



Carabitts gurdneri, sp. n. (PI. XVI. fig. 10.) 



Elytron 16'8 mm. long, 5*5 mm. wide; l)ase truncate, 

 apex narrowed, but obtuse at lip ; the outer margin 

 strongly concave just hcforc the clul. Outer margin with 



