450 REVISIONAL NOTES ON AUSTRALIAN CAEABIDjE, 



as C. championensis , which seems to me rather a local form of 

 C. convexiis than a distinct species. The less strigulose-opaquei 

 mesepisterna, without punctures on the surface, except at bottom 

 of channel to receive the intermediate femora, is the only decided 

 character by which I can differentiate this form. Length 8'5-9'2, 

 breadth 3'9-4-5 mm. (Chaudoir gives the size as " Long. 8^-9^, 

 larg. 3f-4^mill.") 



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' CoPTOCARPUS CHAUDOIRI Macleay. 



Trans. Ent. Soc. N. S. Wales, ii., 1873, p. 329. 

 ■ This is the northern form representing G. australis Dej.;from 

 which it seems distinguished chiefly by its nitid sternal side- 

 pieces without punctures on their surface, the basal ventral 

 segments nitid, the second not closely covered with a fine 

 puncturatioii; 



,,,' (. CoPTOCARPUS DODDI, n.sp. , '^ 



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\,s Oval, convex, nitid; labrum 6-setose; prothorax without basal 

 impressions; elytra : truncate-oval, strongly striate, striae crenu- 

 |a,te, first interstice witliout striole at base, third interstice biv 

 impressed on apical half; prosternitra with intercoxal part 

 bordered, episterna with a few punctures near coxal cavities; 

 mesepisterna 8raooth(only punctate at bottom of femoral 

 <;h&.nnel;)^ metepisterna broader than long, impunctate; ventral 

 segnients impunctate; anterior tarsi in ^ with three basal joints 

 widely dilatate, fourth joint attached to third near inner side. 

 Black, shining; lateral margins of prothorax piceous-red; 

 antennae and palpi reddish; tarsi reddish-piceous. 



Head wide(l'6 mm. across eyes), short; eyes round, convex, 

 inclosed behind. Piothorax convex, declivous to sides(strongly 

 so anteriorly, lightly so posteriorly), wide(2'3 x 37 mm.), widest 

 just before base, about twice as wide at base(3-65 mm.), as at 

 apex(l-8 mm.), minutely shagreened under a lens; sides narrowed 

 anteriorly in an even curve; apex decidedly emarginate; anterior 

 angles widely obtuse; base very slightly emarginate, hardly 

 trisinuate; basal angles subrectangular but obtuse at summit; 

 median line fine, sometimes hardly perceptible. Elytra wide. 



