BY THOMAS G, SLOANE 825 



Prosternum bordered along anterior margin. Anterior tarsi in 

 (J not clothed beneath with spongiose tissue. Length 20, breadth 

 8-1 mm. 



Hah. — Dorrigo; a single specimen (^J), hibernating beneath a 

 log in the bush. 



This species requires comparison only with E. hlagravei Cast., 

 from which it is very distinct by the prothorax more gently 

 narrowed to base, the sides without any juxtabasal sinuosity, 

 basal angles not prominent; elytra with interstices more even, 

 fifth (not fourth) dilated at base (in E. hlagravei the fourth stria 

 joins the lateral channel at the humeral angle, but in E. regularis 

 the fourth stria reaches the base considerably inwards from the 

 humeral angle — in a similar position to the third stria in E. 

 hlagravei); prosternum bordered, etc. 



Note. — The remarkable interstitial sculpture of the elytra in 

 E. hlagravei has not been recorded. There are only seven stri« 

 and eight interstices on the elytra, and there is no sign that the 

 loss of one stria and interstice is caused by the eighth and ninth 

 interstices coalescing, and so forming a double interstice, as in 

 the case of E. dyschirioides Cast.( = E. olliffi Bates). The evidence 

 is rather that the loss of the stria and interstice occurs on that 

 part of the elytra between the humeral angle and the suture. 

 I believe that, in E. hlagravei, the two inner interstices represent 

 the three inner interstices of a normally sculptured species like 

 E. regidaris; 1 know of no case of similar striation in the sub- 

 family Harpalinse. 



Mbonis angusticollis, n.sp. 



Elongate, convex; prothorax very little longer than broad, sides 

 strongly sinuate posteriorly, basal angles rectangular; elytra much 

 wider than prothorax, oval, lightly 4-striate on disc on each 

 side of suture; fifth stria well developed on apical declivity. 

 Black, nitid; tarsi piceous. 



Head narrow(2-2mra. across eyes), convex, strongly transversely 

 impressed behind eyes; two supraorbital punctures on each side; 

 front deeply bi-irapressed; eyes hemispherical. Maxillae with 



