Coieoptera. ' 89 



Order 4.— COLEOPTERA. 



By C. 0. Watekhottse, F.E.S., C. J. Gahan, M.A., E.E.S., 

 and G. J. Abrow, E.E.S. 



(PLATES X AND XI.) 



Family CARABID^. 



1. Morio orientalis, Dej. 



Common in rotten wood. 



In the Musenm there are specimens from Java, Penang, Andaman 

 and jN'icobar Islands. 



2. Harpalus, sp. 



Two specimens, which at present are undetermined. 



3. Trechus(?). 



A small species apparently referable to this genus. 



Family STAPHYLIMD^. 



4. Gyrophaena, sp. 



This and the following we are at present unable to determine. 



5. Philonthus, sp. 



6. Lithocharis, sp. 



7. Paederus listeri, Gahan, sp.n. (PL X, Fig. 1.) 



Mger, articulis duobus primis et duobus ultimis antennarum 

 fulvis ; elytris chalybeato - cyaneis, dense fortiterque punctatis, 

 quam prothorace yix brevioribus ; tarsis fulvo-testaceis, interdum 

 leviter infuscatis. Long. 8-9 mm. 



Head and prothorax black and glossy. Antennae with the first 

 two and the last two joints fulvous or testaceous, the intermediate 

 joints dark brown. Elytra very slightly shorter than the pro- 

 thorax ; steel blue or sometimes greenish blue in colour ; thickly 

 and rather strongly punctured. Abdomen pitchy black ; the legs 

 of the same colour, with the tibiae less dark towards the extremity, 



