BY THOMAS G. SLOANE. 457 



and the ungues bearing a single strong sharp tooth on the inner 

 «ide near the base — features which escaped my notice when 

 ■describing this species. 



My description was founded on a specinien(2), evidently 

 ■slightly discoloured by age; a fresli specimen((J) received from 

 Mr. F. P. Dodd, is much brighter; it is coloured as follows. 

 Head clear yellowish-brown; prothorax nitid, piceous with a 

 median stripe of the same colour as head; explanate margins 

 testaceou3(the prothorax has on each side of tlie disc a wide 

 infuscate area fading to a yellowish colour towards middle, 

 apex, and base); elytra piceous-black, subopaque with lateral 



.margins, lateral border, and suture(narrowly)testaceous; under 

 surface, inflexed margins of elj^tra and legs pale testaceous; 



.antennae and anterior tarsi slightly darker than legs. 

 Hah. — Q.: Kuranda(Dodd). 



Genus COLPODES. 



Macleaj', W. S., Annulosa Javanica, 1825. p. 17; Chaudoir 

 (Monograph), Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr., 1877. 



The two Australian species may be differentiated thus : — 



■Colour a;neous. Elytra with apex rounded, unarmed C. lafertei Montrz. 



• Colour violaceous. Elytra bispinose at apex C. violaceits Chaud. 



CoLPODES LAFERTEI Montrouzier. 



Anchomenus laJerUA Montrouzier, Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr , 1860, 

 p 238; Colpodes lafertei Cha,n(\o\v, Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr., 1877,p.341: 

 I'lalynus planipennis Macleay, Trans. Ent. Soc. N. S. Wales, ii., 

 1871, p.ll2. 



Platynus planipennis Macl., agrees so well with Montrouzier's 



• brief note on his Anclioinenus lafertei, and with Cliaudoir's note 

 on the same species, in liis Revision(1877), that (considering, also, 

 liates's having recorded C. lafertei from Australia), T feel 



• certain it is the same species. My former note, suggesting its 



probable identity with I'latynus maryiuellus Erichs., was quite 



swrong. It is a Colpodes. 

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