BY THOMAS G. SLOANE. 465 



punctate a little behind middle. Piceous-black, ^ nitid, 9 with 

 elytra subnitid (hardly opaque); vertex, middle of base of pro- 

 thorax and sterna reddish; prothorax with narrow ferruginous 

 margin ; elytra with light brownish margin ; antennas fusco- 

 ferruginous, basal joint testaceous; coxaj, tibiae and tarsi darker. 



Head convex, cylindrical behind eyes, Isevigate; frontal impres- 

 sions obliquely divergent backwards to near middle of eyes, short, 

 well marked ; eyes convex, prominent. Labrum transverse- 

 quadrate, shagreened. Prothorax a little broader than long 

 (1"5 X 1*75 mm.), depressed, declivous on anterior part of sides, 

 widest before middle (at marginal seta); sides lightly rounded, 

 roundly and decidedly narrowed anteriorly, gently narrowed 

 posteriorly; basal angles widely rounded, not the least marked; 

 apex lightly emarginate; anterior angles obtuse, lightly marked; 

 border narrow, extending round anterior angles a little on to 

 anterior margin on each side, and on each side of base to peduncle; 

 lateral channel not impressed; a wide shallow impunctate depres- 

 sion on each side of base. Elytra convex, ovate (3 8 x 2-5 mm.); 

 base a little wider than base of prothorax, truncate ; humeral 

 angles rounded; sides strongly, shortly and roundly narrowed to 

 base; apical curve with a light sinuosity on each side at extremity 

 of eighth stria; striae distinctly impressed, a little stronger in ^ 

 than in 9; ninth interstice becoming wide near apex, its punctures 

 widely interrupted on anterior half and placed in two groups on 

 posterior part (four near apex and three a little further forwai'd); 

 border narrow, reflexed. 



Length 5-6, breadth 2-2 -7 mm. 



ffab. — Swan River, Darling Ranges, Pinjarrah, Donnybrook, 

 Mount Barker (Lea), Albany (Helms). 



This is evidently a common species in West Australia. Com- 

 pared with a Victorian species, found near Melbourne, which is 

 allied to, if not identical with, Harpalus verticalis, Erichs., and 

 also allied to Z. flavocinctus, Blkb., it differs by having the pro- 

 thorax less transverse, and the apex of the elytra less strongly 

 sinuate on each side, the 9 with the elytra much more finely 



shagreened and not sericeous, <fec. It evidently differs from L 

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