486 ON CARABIDJE FROM WEST AUSTRALIA, 



on each side; stripe strongly impressed, finely and closely punctate; 

 no striole near base; interstices depressed, ninth punctate; lateral 

 border narrow, meeting basal border in an open curve. 



Length 5, breadth 1*6 mm. 



Hab. — Beverley (Lea). This species is at once distinguished 

 from P. planiusculus, Chaud., by its narrower and more convex 

 form, and by having the posterior third of the prothorax covered 

 with a fine dense puncturation. 



Genus Darodilia. 



95. D. EMARGINATUS, n.Sp. 



Robust, convex; body not pedunculate; head shortly but deci- 

 dedly biimpressed; prothorax convex, cordate, a little narrower 

 across base than apex; elj^tra ovate, strongly striate, base emargi- 

 nate; prosternum with episterna lajvigate; labrum emarginate; 

 mandibles prominent, decussating. Black. 



Head convex, declivous to labrum; a short deep outwardly 

 curved impression on each side of front; clypeal suture connecting 

 apices of frontal impressions ; eyes round, convex. Mentum 

 widely but not deeply emarginate; lobes short, obtuse at apex; 

 sinus lightly oblique on sides, middle shortly and widely advanced. 

 Palpi : maxillary with second joint rather stout, arcuate, third 

 shorter, cylindrical, thickened to apex, terminal longer than pen- 

 ultimate, truncate-oval ; labial with two terminal joints about 

 equal, rather elongate, penultimate slender, bisetose, terminal 

 oval, lightly truncate. Prothorax transverse, subcordate (1-7x2 

 mm.); sides strongly rounded; apex truncate; anterior angles 

 obtuse, lightly marked; base truncate in middle, sloping lightly 

 forward on each side; basal angles obtuse, a little marked; border 

 reflexed, shortly subsinuate before basal angles ; median line 

 strongly impressed on disc; a single deep impression on each side 

 of base. Elytra ovate (3-7 x 2'4 mm.), convex, steeply declivous 

 to base; apex lightly emarginate on each side; base emarginate; 

 shoulders a little advanced, lightly marked; sides subparallel in 

 middle, rounded to base ; striaa deep, seventh lightly marked 

 (except towards apex); interstices lightly convex; lateral border 



