478 Mr. IT. E. Andrewes on Oriental Carabidae. 



joint 1 is not much longer than 2. In the ^ the first three 

 joints of the front tarsi are faintly dilated and biseriately 

 squamose beneath. Claws simple, much dilated at base. 



The name is derived from a Kauarese word meaning 

 " very small.''' 



The above characters are largely those of Odacantha, but 

 in that genus the paraglossse are wider, iiardly longer tiian 

 the ligula, adnate, though separated at apex from the ligula 

 by a deep emargination. The chief difference, however, is 

 in the thorax, which in Odacantha is very distinctly margined 

 at sides over the front two-thirds. The elytra of this genus, 

 too, are less convex and the striae more finely punctate. The 

 two genera are evidently closely allied, but the characters 

 I have just mentioned seem to render them sufficiently 

 distinct. 



Arame macra, sp. n. 



Length 6-6"5 mm. ; width 1*6-1'8 mm. 



Piceous. Palpi, first three joints of antennae (2 and 3 

 sometimes infuscate), legs (except coxse and front trochanters), 

 epipleurjeof elytra, and an ill-defined. spot at apex (sometimes 

 the whole of the apical third) reddish testaceous. 



Head about 1 mm. in wi'lth (length behind eye = l|^ times 

 diameter of eye), convex, shiny, frontal foveas well-marked, 

 clypeus smooth, with a seta at each side, surface sparsely 

 covered with coarse setiferous punctures, more closely in 

 front, only a few behind level of eyes. 



Prothorax barrel-shaped, without front or hind angles, 

 shiny, about as long as head and a little narrower, widest in 

 middle, contracted at each extremity, but more so in front 

 than behind, slightly constricted just before base, which has 

 a smooth border ; side-margins obsolete, median furrow wide 

 but not dee]), surface covered with setiferous punctures, less 

 closely on disk, the punctuiation rather more dense than on 

 head. 



Elytra moderately convex, parallel, as long as head and 

 thorax taken together, joining prothorax by a short peduncle, 

 shoulders a little oblique, apex nearly squarely truncate, 

 punctate-striate, less strongly towards apex ; intervals 3, 5, 

 and 7 each with a series of numerous small setiferous pores, 

 the hairs standing out very clearly on unrubbed specimens 

 viewed sideways. 



On the underside the abdomen is smooth, head with a few 

 large punctures, all sterna (except middle of metasternum) 

 densely and very coarsely punctate, prosternal process smooth, 



