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ON CABABID.E FROM WEST AUSTRALIA, SENT BY 



Mr. a. M. lea (WITH DESCRIPTIONS OF NEW 



GENERA AND SPECIES, SYNOPTIC 



TABLES, kc). 



By Thomas G. Sloane. 



Mr. A. M. Lea, of the Bureau of Agriculture, West Australia, 

 has sent to me, for inspection and report, a large number of 

 insects of the family Carabidse from different parts of the Colony 

 of West Australia, and the following paper comprises the results 

 of my examination of the collections he has forwai'ded. The 

 Carabidfe treated of consist of collections from two widely separated 

 districts, viz., those from South- West Australia and the neigh- 

 Ijourhood of Champion Bay, mostly collected by Mr. Lea; and those 

 from the East Kimberley District (localities Wyndham on Cam- 

 liridge Gulf, Behn River and Upper Ord River), collected by 

 Mr. Richard Helms. 



In order to assist the elucidation of the facts connected with 

 the distribution of the Carabidse in Australia, I have, in some 

 cases, brought together and tabulated the genera of tribes that 

 have hitherto been scattered in a somewhat haphazard manner, 

 thereby enabling more accurate comparisons to be made between 

 the faunas of different parts of the continent. 



The arrangement of the tribes adopted by Dr. G. H. Horn in 

 his classification of the Carabidse* has been followed in the main, 

 but the Harpalince tmisefoscehsbxe been placed before the Harpalince 

 bisetosce in the belief that they represent the older type and 

 therefore should be placed first. The tribe Bembidiini, placed by 

 Horn between the Nomiini and the Feronini, seems to me in a 

 wrong position. The type specimens of all the new species have 

 been returned to Mr. Lea. 



* Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. 1881, ix. 



