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Show 1889.] NEW SPECIES OF CARABIDEE. 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 G. kushmirensis (Koll.) 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 simplices. Caput post oculos haud incrassatum. Labrum medio valde depresso-emarginatum. Mentum dente magno valde elevato et compresso, apice truncato. Palpi labiates articulo penultimo 5-setoso ; labiates et maxillares articulo apicali in S late triangulari, in $ mediocriter dilatato. CARABUS DARDIELLUS. Quoadformam C. obsoleto similis, sed paullo gracilior ; elongatus, nigro-fuscus, cenescens, parum nitidus ; capite (normali oculisque prominentibus) thoraceque vermiculato-strigosis, hoc transverso cordato-quadrato, mox ab angulis anticis rotundato-dilatato paullo post medium vix sinuatim angustato, angulis posticis paullo productis (apice obtusis) declinatis, margine laterali paullo reflexo, antico medio sinuato; elytris elongato-ovatis, postice convexis, striato-punctatis, interstitiis angustis, aut aut planis, utrinque fossulis rotundatis (fundo unigranu-latis), triplici serie spatiisque interfossulas oblongo-tuberculatis, limbo laterali et apicali confertim aspere granulato. Palpi labiates articulo penultimo 5-setoso. Antennce articulo 4" apice piloso. Mentum dente magno valde elevato et compresso, apice truncato. Labrum profunde sinuatum. cS • Tarsi antice articulis 4 dilatatis, plantis spongiosis, l°-3"' latis et arete 4" parvo. Long. 22-24 millim. Goorais Valley. Many examples. Resembles C. boysi (Tatum) 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 foveae in the "chain-striae" 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 |
