i\rr. II. E. Aiulrou'ea on OrienUd Carabidto. '2H'^ 



male specimen taken by Mr. L. Fea at Kawkarect^ tliough 

 short, is exaet, except in one particular, the emargination 

 of the labrum and clvpeus being mnch shallower than in 

 D. po/ita, Bates (not F. = perscissa, Aiulr. ). I may add 

 that there is a single supraorbital seta. Tlie lobes of the 

 mentuin have a rouuded tooth at apex, formed by an expan- 

 sion of the epilobes, and on the margin of the sinus there 

 are two long setre. Between the apex of the narrow ligula 

 and the paraglossaj there is hardly any indentation, the 

 latter being adnate, l)ut extending considerably beyond the 

 ligiUa. The right mandible has a simple, the left one a 

 double, tooth at al)out middle. In this species, X). />o/i7r/, F., 

 and D. perscissa, Andr., the form of the buccal organs 

 (excluding labrum) is almost exactly the same. This also 

 applies to tlie elytral border behind the shoulder, which is 

 distinctly, though minutely, crenulate, interval 9 at this 

 point being reduced to a series of small tubercles. 



lu Mr. Fleutiaux's collection there are examples from Long 

 Xuyen in Cochin-China {Dorr) and from Saigon ; another 

 specimen from Cochin-China is in the Brussels Museum ; 

 in the Paris Museum are examples from Hanoi in Tonkin 

 {Ih'. JViet and V. Lahoissiere), Laos {Harmand), Cochin- 

 China (Julien and Lemesle), and Siam {Pavie, Bocourt, and 

 Larnaudie) ; in the British Museum are specimens, some 

 differing from the type in minor i)oints, from Bangkok in 

 Siam {S. S. F/oiver), ^Malacca (Castelnan), Silam in N. 

 Borneo, Lampong in Sumatra {Buxtun), and Japan. 

 Numerous specimens have lately been taken by Mr. R. 

 Vitalis de Salvaza at various* localities in Laos, Tonkin, and 

 Cambodia. 



In addition to the above, I have seen examples from Java 

 in the collections of the British, Paris, and Brussels 

 Museums, and have others in my own collection. These 

 are larger than the typical form, and have a distinctly wider 

 ])rothorax. Similar examples, however, occur in Indo- 

 China, and, as dissection reveals no dili'erences in the buccal 

 organs, I regard them as belonging to this s[)ecies. 



Diplochila latifrons, Dej. Spec. Gen. v. 1831, p. 679 ; Laf. 

 Ann. Soc. Eut. Fr. 1851, p. 279 ; Bates, Ann. Mus. Civ. 

 Gen. 1892, p. 327 ; Lesne, Miss. Pavie Hist. Nat. 

 1904, p. 72. 



Diplochila opaca, Chaud. Bull. Mosc. 18o2, i. p. 67 ; Bates, Traus. 

 Ent. Soc. Lond. 1873, p. 255; id. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. J889, p. 207. 



I have seen in Mr. R. Obcrthiir^s collection the types of 

 both Dejcan and Chaudoir, and compared examples of my 



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