Mr. IT. E. Andrewes on Oriental Carabiclic. 343 



Chlcenius championi, sp. n. 



Length 11-5-12-0 mm. ; width 4-25-5-0 mm. 



Black, shiny beneath, dull above ; upper surface, especially 

 head, with a faint purphsh tiuge ; front and sides of head, 

 side-margins of prothorax (more widely in front than 

 behind) and of elytra up to stria 8 (to stria 7 near sliouhler) 

 metallic-green ; joints 1-3 of antennee and le^s flavous, palpi 

 and tarsi reddish. Upper surface covered with a fairly long 

 but not very conspicuous grey pubescence. 



Head convex, densely and coarsely punctate, less densely 

 on middle of front, clypeus nearly smooth, fovese small and 

 rounded, labrum truncate, depressed in middle, palpi slender, 

 anteuuDe rather thick, joint 3 very little longer than 4. 

 Prothurax moderately convex, distinctly wider than head, 

 but not much wider than long, base emarginate in middle 

 witli its sides a little oblique, sides evenly rounded and very 

 slightly sinuate before hind angles, which are obtuse but 

 hardly rounded; median line a little faint, fovese short, linear, 

 fairly deep, and reaching base, the whole surface coarsely, 

 closely, and coufluently punctate. Elytra convex, ovate, 

 a third as wide again as prothorax, and nearly two-thirds as 

 long again as wide, border forming a sharp angle at shoulder ; 

 strife deep and clearly punctate, intervals moderately convex, 

 the whole surface densely and somewhat confluently punc- 

 tate, the punctures, without being fine, much smaller than 

 those on prothorax. Underside closely punctate, except 

 along median line, venter more finely and sparsely, pro- 

 sternal process very finely bordered, metepisterna slightly 

 transverse, upper surface of tarsi moderately pilose. 



The species does not seem to fit into any of the groups in 

 Chaudoir's table. Were the labrum emarginate, I should 

 consider it as belonging to the chhrodius group, and allied 

 more particularly to C. Jienryi^ m., which it resembles in 

 many ways. It is, however, smaller, and has a prothorax of 

 different shape, the elytra more deeply striate, the surface 

 more coarsely punctate. 



KuMAON : Central and West Almora {H. G. Chamjnon), 

 3 ex. (2 c^ cT , 1 ? ). The type is in the British Museum. 



Chlaniusfratercidus, Maindr. Bull. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1899, p. 250. 

 This species, taken by Mr. E. Durel at Maria Basti in 

 British Bhutan, has at the apex of the elytra a fairly wide 

 a])ical border of a flavous colour, the outline of its front 

 margin somewhat dentate. In this pattern it resembles at 

 least one European species, C. vestitus, ¥., and a number of 

 Eastern ones, such as C. inops, Chaud., C.f rater, Chaud., 

 etc. In some specimens, similar in other respects to the 



