Mr. 11. E. Andrewos on Oriental Carabidao. -473 



H A R P A L I N I . 



Acrogeniodon, Tcliit. Al)eilIo, xxix. 1897, p. 6!')= Cht/Jicus, 

 Cliaud. Bull. Muse. LS.34, ii. p. 343. 



Two species were described by Tcliitclierin, viz., A. fi^ileli 

 (I. c. p. 6G), from Moiipin, and A. semenowi (Hor. Soc. Eiif. 

 Itoss. xxxii. 1809, p. 6()(>), from Dar)ilin<^. Neither of these 

 appears to be identical with the <feii'»typo, C. ohsruru.t^iMmm]. 

 (I. c. p. 314), tor a specimen of which I am indebted to 

 Mr. T. G. 8luane. 



Platymetopus inffrpunctatus, Dej. Sp. Gen. iv. 1829, p. 71. 



The locality is given as Coromandel, which is almost 

 certainly erroneous. The species iuliabits ^ladagascar and 

 the Seychelles. 



Kareta, gen. no v. 



In Conipt. rend. Soc. Ent. Btdg. 1891, and Ann. Mus. 

 Civ. Gen. 1892, Bates described a number of species under 

 the generic name Plati/metojjus {?), and at p. 332 of the latter 

 volume he makes some remarks upon it. The general appear- 

 ance of these insects is widely ciitferent from that of typical 

 Plati/metopi, and the size is larger. In Platymetopus the 

 liguhi is t^hort and bisetose, the paraglossse small, extending 

 a little beyond and enveloping it, with a fringe ot hairs on 

 the outer niar^in. In Kareya both ligula and paraglossai 

 are larger, the former bisetose but free at the apex, the latter 

 wilier, glabrous except for one or two minute hairs on the 

 sides towards base. Mentum edentate, but with the middle 

 of the cmargination generally thickened; penultimate joint 

 of labial palpi plurisetuse ; head with a fine suture on each 

 side, extending from the frontal fovea to the eye. Boih 

 head and prothorax smooth, the latter finely punctate over 

 the basal area, its form as in Gnathaphanus. Elytra minutely 

 ])unctulate and very finely pubescent, one or more odd 

 intervals (third always) seriate-punctate. Tarsi hairy on 

 upper surface; front and intermediate tarsi in J with four 

 motlerately dilated joints, biseriately squamose beneath and 

 fringed with long haiis ; hind tarsi with joint 1 = 2 + 3. 



All the known s^pecies were described by Bates. The 

 genotype is A', erelnus, Bates, Aim, Mus. Civ. Gen. 1892, 

 p. 331, from Burma ; the otiier species to be included are 

 A', edititatus, gnntliaplianoide!*,grandice})S, major, and siihhvvis. 



Tiie gt'iieiic name is derived from a Kanaicse word 

 meaning " black, dirty." 



