Deutsch. Ent. Zeitschr. 1907. 177 
New Carabidae from German New Guinea and ıts 
Dependencies. (Col.). 
By Thomas 6. Sloane, Young (N. S. Wales). 
Dr. Walther Horn of Berlin sent to me for identification 
a number of Carabidae brought from German New Guinea (Kaiser 
Wilhelm Land and New Pomerania)!) by Herrn Gouverneur R. 
von Bennigsen. I have much pleasure in offering to the 
Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift the following descriptions of 
the species, I have considered to be undescribed. The types 
have been returned to Dr. Horn (for Bennigsen’s collection). 
23) Ver, 1O08- 
Tribe Sphodrini. 
Genus Colpodes. 
Oolpodes Bennigseni, n. sp. 
Head large (3 mm across eyes), laevigate; prothorax cordate, 
posterior angles rounded off; elytra ovate, finely striate, inter- 
stices depressed, 1° ending at apex in a stout pointed mucro, 
9% narrow, inter-rupted. Black, elytra chalybeus with a narrow 
margin (including 9'% interstice) black. 
Front lishtly impressed between bases of antennae; vertex 
convex. Prothorax broader than long (3.35 4 mm), widest 
a little before middle, wider across apex (2.35 mm) than across 
base (2.65 mm); sides rounded, obtusely subangulate at widest 
part, not sinuate before base; apex bordered, truncate, angles 
rounded; base bordered, truncate, angles rounded; lateral margin 
reflexed, not wide; posterior basal impressions wide, reaching 
to reflexed lateral margins; posterior marginal seta on edge of 
reflexed border a little before base. Elytra wide (11.6 x 7 mm), 
lishtly convex; shoulders rounded; apex sinuate on each side 
opposite extremity of 5 interstice and shortly truncate outside 
apical mucro; striae crenulate, 4% turning inwards at apex in a 
strongly impressed course parallel with apical margin to join 1“, 
7% deeply impressed and parallel with margin on apical curve; 
3" interstice 3-punctate, — anterior puncture near 3"T stria, 
intermediate near 24 stria, posterior near apex (on apical decli- 
vity, the 2"4 stria curving inwards beside it) —, 8% carinate on 
apical curve. Tarsi with joints of all strongly bisulcate on upper 
ı) „Neu Pommern“, früher „Neu Britannien“ (W. Horn). 
