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CARABID^ FROM DORRIGO, N. S.W. 



By Thomas G. Sloane. 



The township of Dorrigo is situated in the midst of a heavy 

 forest, about thirty miles west from the port of Coff's Harbour, 

 on a volcanic plateau having an altitude of about 2,000 feet above 

 sea-level. Three miles east from Dorrigo, the escarpment of the 

 plateau descends abruptly to the low-lying land of the coast. 



In July, 1910, Mr. H. J. Carter and I made a hurried entomo- 

 logical trip to Dorrigo, going from Coff's Harbour, via the 

 Bellinger River. "We were able to spend only three days (9th 

 and 10th July, with portions of the 8th and the 11th) collecting 

 around the township, and to do a little minor collecting en route 

 at Bellingen and Raleigh. While we were at Dorrigo there was 

 a white frost each morning. 



We devoted our attention almost entirely to collecting Carabidoe 

 and Tenehrionidce. In the present paper, I report on the Cara- 

 ■bidce we found, together with some additional species obtained by 

 Mr. H. W. Cox during a vi.sit to Dorrigo, subsequent to ours, in 

 ihe month of August. Mr. Carter, in an appendix, will deal 

 with the Tenehrionidoi. 



(1) List of Carabidoi found at Dorrigo and the Bellinger River : 



Pamborus morbillosus Boisd., P. pradieri Chaud., (Dorrigo); P. 



guerini Gory (Bellingen); Mystropomus snbcostatus Chaud., 



(Dorrigo); Clivina australaske Bohem.,( Raleigh); Eurylychnus 



reg%daris, n.sp., Meonis angusticollis, n.sp., Amblytelus vninutus 



Macl., A. marginicoUis, n.sp., Dystrichothorax vittipenyiis, n.sp., 



Leirodira auricoUis Cast., Ceratoferonia phylarchus SI., (Dorrigo; 



common, liiding in rotting logs), Castelnaudia vigorsi Gory, var. 



alternans SI., (Raleigh), C. marginkf'era Chaud., C. speciosa, n.sp., 



Notonomus angustihasis SI., iV. nitescens, n.sp., (Dorrigo); N. 



bdJingeri, n.sp. .(Bellingen); W. australis Cast., var. cremdata, 



■var.nov., A^otoleatus sidcipennis MacL, (Dorrigo) ; Zoedera 

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