BY THOMAS G. SLOANE. 457 



Of the genera given in Mr. G. Masters' Catalogue of the 

 Australian Coleoptera as belonging to the Harpalini, but not 

 included in this table, Geobceni/s, Acujyalpus and SarjJalus 

 should, I think, be deleted from the Australian fauna, there not 

 being sufficient evidence that any of the species attributed to 

 these genera properly belong to them; though I cannot at present 

 suggest the true position of the species which are still left 

 therein. Anisodactylus, properly speaking, does not appear 

 to be represented in Australia; I therefore propose the genus 

 Cenogmus for the reception of the species referred to it by Baron 

 Chaudoir. The single species of Mici-osariis has been shown bj'^ 

 the Rev. T. Blackburn to be synonymous with GnathajyhcDius 

 adelaidce, Casteln. Nebriosoma, another genus with a single 

 species, is not a Harpalid; I ha\e seen the type specimen of A". 

 J'allax, Casteln., in the Howitt Collection, and have noted that 

 the episterna of the mesosternum reach the coxae, so that the 

 genus belongs to the first division of the Carabidt^; its place is 

 apparently in the antarctic tribe Migadopini, a position indicated 

 by de Castelnau, who regarded it as closely allied to Loxomerus 

 ( = Heterodactylus) from the Auckland Islands (not from New 

 Zealand as said by de Castelnau). Ci/clotliorax does not belong 

 to the Harpalini. Veradia, a genus placed b}' its founder, Count 

 de Castelnau, in the Morionini, requires notice. Chaudoir has 

 said that it does not differ from Hypliarpax;'^ I have seen a type 

 specimen of the single species, V. hrishanensis, Casteln., in the 

 Howitt Collection, and I agree with Chaudoir that it is a 

 Harpalid, but not having examined it critically cannot pronounce 

 on its relationship to the other Australian Harpalids, though I 

 should think Chaudoir might be followed in his assignment of it 

 to JLypliarpax. It may be as well to note here that I believe 

 Amhlyynatlius minutus, Casteln., to be a Harpalid, but not 

 knowing it in nature cannot venture any suggestion as to its 

 place among the Australian Harpalini. 



Bull. Mosc. 1880, Iv. p. 318. 



