344 Mr. H. E. Andrewes on Oriental Carabidse. 



type^ this border is wanting, though the narrow marginal 

 border remains flavous to apex. For this form I propose 

 the name atupus : it can hardly be a local race, and. pending 

 the receipt of more exact information regarding its occur- 

 rence, should be treated as a variety of the typical form. 

 Examples of both were taken by Mr. Darel at Maria Basti, 

 and have also been taken by Mr. H. Stevens in Sikkim, 

 both at Gopaldhara, 4720 ft., and at Gielle Kholain the Tista 

 Valley, 600 ft. The type (Gopaldhara) is in my collection. 



Chlcenius melanopuSy sp. n. 



Length 11-5-12-0 mm. ; width 4-25-4-50 mm. 



Very dark blue-black, iridescent beneath; head bluish 

 green, prothorax dark blue, joints 1-2 of antennae, palpi, 

 legs, and a common spot at apex of elytra testaceous red, 

 tarsi brown. 



Head small, convex, finely and closely punctate, fovese 

 small and slight, eyes rather flat, labrum truncate, palpi 

 slender, antennae thick, joint 3 pubescent, a good deal longer 

 than 4. Frotliorax rather flat, much wider than head, nearly 

 as long as wide, equally contracted at extremities, both of 

 which are emarginate, sides rather strongly and evenly 

 rounded, margin slightly explanate and reflexed, hind angles 

 a little obtuse and rounded ; median line fine, fovese elon- 

 gate, shallow, the whole surface finely and very closely 

 punctate, and shortly pubescent, the punctures transversely 

 confluent. Elytra oval, moderately convex, a third as wide 

 again as prothorax, half as long again as wide, border 

 rounded at shoulder; striae rather shallow and finely punc- 

 tate, striole short, surface finely asperate-punctate, shortly 

 and inconspicuously pubescent ; the common spot is a small 

 transverse oval, at about a fourth from apex, barely reaching 

 stria 4, slightly produced behind along interval 1. Under- 

 side shortly and sparsely pubescent, sterna finely punctate 

 at sides, sides of venter finely strigose-punctate, prosternal 

 process not bordered, minutely setose, metepisterna nearly 

 as wide as long, tarsi pubescent on upper side. 



Near C. guttula^ Chaud., but even nearer C uninotaius, m. 

 A little longer and wider than the latter, head blue-green, 

 prothorax dark blue, apical spot on elytra a little larger and 

 more regular in outline. Head similar, prothorax wider, 

 the sides distinctly reflexed, surface less dull, punctures more 

 transversely confluent, the punctures on the elytra more 

 asperate and conspicuous. 



China : Yunnan, Djoukoula, 2 ex., ? $ (coll. H. de 

 Touzalin). Mr. de Touzalin has kindly allowed me to 

 retain the type in my collection, 



