Mv. II. E. Andrewos o)i Oriental Carabitlx'. 203 



intervals rather narrower than even ones, 1 slightly raised, 

 3-5-7 carinatc, more strongly so near base and 5-7 more 

 strongly than 3, 3 with a single sctiferous pore eloseto apex, 

 surface with a faint line of minnte punctnres along middle 

 of intervals. Beneath the head bears some long sette, the 

 ])rosternal process is cuneiform, pointed at apex, the surface 

 generally finely and rather sparsely punctate, very shortly 

 pubescent. 



The shining surface and carinate elytra at once distin- 

 guish this species from M. javanus, King. In the new 

 si)ecies the eyes are more prominent, the prothorax narrower 

 and with distinctly bordered base, the elytra longer, with 

 intervals of different 'widths, and no apical red spot. 



Laos : Pou Bin, Bau Sai, Xieng Khouang, Pia Hat, Muong 

 Pek, and Pou Mi {R. Vilalis de Salvaza). Assam: Garo 

 Hills, Tura, 3500-3900 ft. [S. W. Kemp, Ind. Mus.). The 

 type is in the British Museum. 



I may mention here one or two generic characters which 

 seem hitherto to have escaped attention. In the S there is 

 on the underside of the front femora near the base a rounded 

 tubercle, bearing a dense brush of brownish hairs. The sides 

 of the mesosternum are cariniform ; the earinse are simple 

 in luctuosus, generally a little serrate in M. javanus, but in 

 the species now described the serration is marked and ends 

 behind in a well-defined tooth. On the margin of the apical 

 ventral segment there is in the ^ a single pair of seta;, rather 

 widely distant ; in the ? there is in addition a second pair» 

 nearer the middle and at some little distance from the 

 margin. 



Miscelus javanus, King, Jahrb. Ins. 1834, p. 82, t. 1. f. 9 ; 

 Andr. Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1919, p. 183. 



Bates (Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1889, p. 283) records iJ/. 

 cey/onicus, Chaud., from Mytho in Cochin-China : 1 have 

 examined this specimen, now in Mr. Flentiaux's collection ; 

 it has the customary red apical spot of Javanese examples, 

 and does not seem to me to differ from 31. javanus. Mr. 

 Yitalis de Salvaza has taken a considerable number of 

 specimens in difierent parts of Laos, which appear to l)elong 

 to this species, though on average tliey are distinctly darker 

 than examples from India and Java. The apical red spot 

 is sometimes present, sometimes absent ; when present it is 

 frequently very faint. 



This species and M. carinatus described above are the only 

 representatives of the genus known at present in Indo-Chiua. 



