18S9.] NEW SPECIES OF CARABID.E. 211 



With the form of head and mouth-structure of a typical Carabus, 

 this species differs from all the subgenera and groups of that genus 

 in the simple anterior tarsi of the male. The form of head and 

 thorax and the vertically projecting tooth of the mentum are nearly 

 the same as in C. kashmirensis (KoU.) and G. boysi (Tatum). The 

 elevated interstitial parts of the elytra bear here and there traces of 

 punctured striae. The new subgenus necessary for its reception 

 may be thus characterized : — 



ImaVbius. 



Tarsi antici utroque sexu simp/ices. Caput post oculos hand 

 incrassatum. Lubrum medio vulde depresso-emaryiiiatum. 

 Mentum dente magno valde elevato et comprcsso, apice trmicato. 

 Palpi lubiales articulo penultimo 5-setoso ; labiates et maxitlares 

 articulo apieali in S late triangulari, in $ mediocriter 

 dilatafo. 



Carabus dardiellus. 



Quoad fofmam C. obsoleto similis, sed paullo gracilior ; elongatus, 

 nigro-fuscus, cenescens, paruni nitidus ; capite {normali oculisque 

 prominentibiis) thoraceque vennicidato-strigosis, hoc transversa 

 cordato-quadrato, mox ab angidis anticis rotundato-dilatalo 

 pmillo post medium vix sinuatim angustato, angulis posticis 

 paullo productis {apice obtusis) declinatis, margine laterali 

 paullo reflexo, antico medio sinuate ; elylris elonyato-ovatis, 

 postice convexis, stria to-punc tat is, interstitiis angustis, aut con- 

 vexis aut planis, utrinque fossulis rotundutis {/undo unigranu- 

 latis), triplici serie spatiisque inter fossulas oblongo-tuberculatis, 

 limbo laterali et apieali confertim aspere granulato. Palpi 

 labiates articulo penidtimo 5-setoso. Antenna articulo 4" 

 apice piloso. Mentum dente magno valde elevato et compresso, 

 apice truncato. Labrum profunde sinuatum. c? • Tarsi antice 

 articulis 4 dilatatis, plantis spongiosis, T-S'" latis et arete con- 

 janctis, 4° pai'vo. 

 Long. 22-24 millim. 

 Goorais Valley. Many examples. 



Resembles C. boysi (fatum) in the sculpture of the elytra ; the 

 latter, however, is a much larger species, with less ovate elytra, and 

 differs conspicuously in the subcordate form of the thorax, the sides 

 of which are deeply sinuated near the projecting and acute hind 

 angles. C. wallichi (Hope) has a very similarly-formed thorax to 

 C. boysi, but the sculpture of the elytra differs from that of both 

 the others in the spaces between the fovese in the "chain-strise" 

 being linear and as narrow as the other interstices. I have examined 

 the type specimens of both in the British Museum collection. 



The following is a tolerably well-marked variety, of which there 

 are several specimens. 



Var. GRANULISPARSUS. 



A typo differt solum capite thoraceque dense nee profunde 



