972 NOTES ON SOME SCARITID.E FROM QUEENSLAND, 



NOTES ON SOME SCARITID^ FROM QUEENSLAND, 

 WITH DESCRIPTIONS OF TWO NEW SPECIES. 



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



Mr. George Barnard, of Coomooboolaroo, Upper Dawson River,, 

 bi'ought me a few weeks ago a collection, or rather, I should say, 

 a selection from his collection, of a number of Australian Scaritid?e, 

 which he was desirous of getting named. I recognised among 

 them the following species: — Monocentrum grandiceps, Chaud. ; 

 Monocentrum longiceps, Chaud. ; Etitoma episcopate, Casteln. ; 

 Eutoma magnificum, Macl. ; Eutoma bipunctatum, Macl. ; Eutoma 

 puTfictulatum^^AcX.; Conopterum Barnardi,M.3ic\.; Carenoscaphus 

 intermedins, Westw.; Carenoscaphus lucidus, Macl.; Calliscapterus 

 elegans, Macl. ; Carenum Castebiaui, Chaud. All of these are 

 from the Dawson River district excepting Eutoma episcopale, 

 Carenoscaphus intermedials, and Carenum Castelnaui, which ai'O 

 from Victoria. The following are new : — - 



Carenum obsoletum, n.sp. 



In form resembling C. interruptum and C . occultum. Black, 

 subnitid. Head minutely scratched, the facial grooves deep, 

 slightly diverging, neai-ly straight. Thorax about the width of 

 the head with the eyes, a little broader than the length, the apex 

 emarginate, the anterior angles advanced, the sides rounded in a 

 regular sweep to the basal lobe, which is short and not broader 

 than half the breadth of the apex, a very slight emargination may 

 be observed on each side near the lobe ; the margin all round 

 except at the apex is reflexed and of a brilliant bluish-green, the 

 disk is moderately nitid, extremely minutely scratched, and 



