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STUDIES IN AUSTRALIAN ENTOMOLOGY. 



No. IX. 



New Species of Carabid^ (with Notes ox some previously 



DESCRIBED SPECIES, AND SyNOPTIC LiSTS OF SpECIES). 



By Thomas G. Sloane. 



Tribe HARPALINI. 



Genus G n a t h a p h a n u s. 



First group of sj^ecies with third interstice of elytra seriate- 

 punctate. 



Synoptic List of the Australian species of Gnathaphanus with 

 the third interstice of the elytra seriate-punctate — Gn. alternans, 

 Casteln., and Gn. montanus, Casteln., which are unknown to me 

 in nature, being omitted. 



/ A. Elytra strongly sinuate on each side of 

 apex. 

 h. Posterior angles of prothorax rounded 



off, colour black Gn. 1<fvic('ps, Macl. 



hh. Posterior angles of prothorax marked, 

 colour cupreous, 

 e. Posterior angles of prothorax obtuse 



at suHJinit Gn. pidcher, Dej. 



cc. Posterior angles of prothorax rect- 

 angular Gu. rectaiKjulus, Chaud. 



A A. Elytra lightly sinuate on each si-le of 

 apex. 

 D. Prothorax with sides lightly rounded 

 and oblique posteriorly, basal 

 angles wide but marked. 

 E. Third interstice of elytra only 

 • seriate-punctate. 



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