PAPERS READ. 



MISCELLANEA ENTOMOLOGICA, No. III. 



THE SCARITID^ OF NEW HOLLAND. 

 By William Maclbay, F.L.S., &c. 



The ScaritidEe (or Bipartiti of Latreille), are very numerously 

 represented in Au.stralia, and are certainly the most beautiful of 

 all the groups of the Carabidse, their colours exhibiting infinite 

 varieties of gem-like brilliancy and metallic lustre. It is perhaps 

 also of all others the group which has been most completely 

 worked up. Professor Westwood was the first to endeavour to throw 

 some light upon these at that time very little known insects, he 

 having described or redescribed all the species then known(19 species) 

 of the genera Care^ium and ScarapJdtes in the " Arcana Entomo- 

 logica," Vol. I, 1845, and the Trans. Ent.Soc. Lond. Vol. V. 1849. 



In January 1863, I published a paper (1) on the Scai'itidae in 

 which I added considerably to the number, and gave descrip- 

 tions of all the species previously known. My next paper read in 

 March 18?4 (2), added 27 to the list of Australian Scaritidse. In 

 a third paper (3), read in March 1865, I added 30 to the list, and 

 introduced the new genus Euryscaphus for the reception of some 

 large species which seemed to be intermediate between Carenum 

 and Scaraphites. I also at the end of that paper gave a tabular 

 list of all the species of Carenum, subdivided into numerous 

 sections founded upon easily recognizable differences in form and 

 sculpture. In 1867 Count Castelnau (4) described over thirty 

 new species, formed a new genus,. Neocarenum, for the reception 

 of some insects of which my Carenum elongatum is the type, and 



(1) Trans. Ent. Soc. N. S. Wales, Vol, 1, p. 55. 



(2) Trans. Ent. Soc. N. S. Wales, Vol. I. p. 1.S4. 



(3) Trans. Ent. Soc. N. S. Wales, Vol. I. p. 176. 



(4) Trans. Roy. Soc. Vict. VIII. p. 120. 



