My. II. E. Amlrewcs on Oriental Carabidae. 287 



(icnus IIypolithus. 

 Hypolithus vitalisi, sp. n. 



Lenj^th r'5-8'0 mm. ; width 2*9-3'l mm. 



Black, both upper and under sides strongly iridescent ; 

 palpi and joints 1-2 of antennte testaceous; trochanters, 

 tibiie, tarsi, and side-margins of prothorax (faintly) brown ; 

 joints 3-11 of antennte and tcniora piceous. 



Head wide (r75 mm.), convex, shining, clypeal snture 

 fine, frontal impressions obsolete, surface finely, but not 

 very closely, punctate. Pruthorax quadrate, but rather 

 transverse (l"9x2'G mm.), widest a little before middle, 

 finely bordered throughout ; base truncate, apex slightly 

 emarginate, sides evenly rounded, Avith a single seta rather 

 before the middle, hind angles obtuse and rounded, but 

 quite evident ; median line and transverse im])ressions very 

 faint, basal foveit? wide and shallow, surface finely punctate, 

 base very closely and confluently, disk nearly smooth. 

 Elytra (3'0 x 4"9 mm.) moderately convex, nearly parallel, 

 border sharply angled at shoulder, and slightly sinuate near 

 apex ; stride deep, very finely crenulate, scutellary striole 

 short, arising in an umbilieate pore, intervals 3-5-7 seriately 

 punctate, the pores arranged along striaj 2-1-6 respectively, 

 9 with a series of umbilieate pores, widely interrupted at 

 middle ; surface finely, closely, and distinctly punctate. 

 Body beneath finely punctate, very sparsely along middle 

 line. 



About the size of H. cyanellus, Bates, but the reflections 

 of the elytra show more blue and less green ; prothorax less 

 transverse, less rounded at sides, the apex more deeply 

 emarginate, the hind angles more rounded ; elytra a little 

 longer and more deeply striate, surface more finely punctate, 

 punctures distinct, not laterally confluent. 



Laos: Vientiane and Paklung {R. Vitalis de Salvaza). 

 Many examples. The type is in the British Museum. 



ITypoUthus cyanellus, Bates, Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1889, p. 269. 

 In describing this species Bates docs not mention a 

 locality, but I find from a label on the type that it was 

 taken at Tourane (Annam). Mr. Vitalis de Salvaza has 

 taken only a few specimens, but they come from four 

 difi'erent provinces of Indo-China, viz., Annam, Laos, 

 Tonkin, and Cambodia. A variety taken at Natung, near 

 Luang Prabang, diflers from the typical form in its almost 

 complete lack of lustre and the rather finer sculpture of the 

 elvtra. 



