502 ON CARABIDjE from west AUSTRALIA, 



their puncturation similar but finer. Very closely allied to A. 

 hinotata, White, (a specimen so named, from Tasmania, has been 

 sent to me by the Rev. T. Blackburn, which evidently represents 

 the species Chaudoir described as A. hinotata, Wt.*), but differing 

 by being less darkly coloured; the head more minutely punctate; 

 the prothoi'ax less transverse, sides less strongly narrowed to 

 base, basal angles less obtuse, base less lobate ; elytra more 

 strongly narrowed to base. Comparing^. 7^i(ficollis ^y\t\i a species 

 from New Zealand, which is regarded by New Zealand coleop- 

 terists as A. binotata, Wt., which it closely resembles, the follow- 

 ing differences may be noted : prothorax with apex a little more 

 deeply emarginate, anterior angles less widely obtuse, base less 

 lobate in middle, basal angles less marked, more obtuse; elytra 

 less in the form of a rectangle, a little more narrowed towards 

 the base, the humeral angles not so widely and evenly rounded, 

 the discoidal maculje wider. 



Note. — I do not know which species — the Tasmanian or the 

 New Zealand one — is the true A. binotata, Wt., and have not 

 access to all the literature on the subject, so cannot say wiiat 

 evidence there is on the point, except that Chaudoir says at the 

 end of his note on A. binotata that it inhabits the southern parts 

 of Australia, and that he did not think it was found in New 

 Zealand, as Blanchard had said. Under the circumstances a 

 comparison of the two species may be of interest. The species of 

 Agoibochila found in New Zealand, which is closely allied to A. 

 binotata, Wt., (as found in Tasmania), differs from that species by 

 having the prothorax less narrowed to the base (apex evidently 

 narrower than base), posterior angles much more marked, explanate 

 lateral margins wider and more depressed; eh^tra similar, but 

 with the ground colour darker. 



118. A. FASCIATA, n.sp. 



Small, subdepressed ; head smooth, finely .shagreened (a few 

 minute punctures on front); prothorax small, lightly emarginate, 

 posterior angles subrectangular ; elytra substriate, shagreened, 



* Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg. xii. p. 224. 



