510 ON CARABID.K FROM WEST AUSTRALIA, 



rounded, not prominent; coarsely punctulate — the pubescence 

 short, sparse, inconspicuous. 



Length 9, breadth 4-3 mm. 



ilab. — Beverley (Lea). 



Differs from P. planus, Newm., by colour; the prothorax more 

 deeply emarginate at apex, with more prominent and marked 

 anterior angles, &c. In general aj^pearance it greatly resembles 

 P. occidenta/is, Blkb., but differs by its larger head, the prothorax 

 more deeply emarginate, less rounded on anterior part of sides, 

 and with anterior angles decidedly advanced — not widely 

 rounded. The ferruginous discoidal space on the elytra extends 

 over the five inner interstices at the base, and becomes narrower 

 backwards reaching nearly to the apex along the suture, its outer 

 edges shading gradually into the surrounding piceous colour of the 

 elytra. 



12.3. P. CONFERTUS, Blkb.; I.e. Supp. Sp. 7265. Hab. — Swan 

 River, Bunbury (Lea). 



124. P. ANGULATUS, Chaud.; I.e. Sp. 158. JTab. — Geraldton 

 and Mullewa (Lea). 



Genus Homothes. 



I am doubtful of the true position of the genus Homotlies. 

 Chaudoir in treating of it* suggested that its place was near 

 Sftnochi/a, a genus which, according to Lacordaire's classification, 

 belongs to the Odacanthides, but which Dr. G. H. Horn has 

 referred to the Dryptini. As far as I can judge the affinities of 

 Homothes are towards Dromms. 



125. H. GDTTiFER, Germ.; I.e. Sp. 134. TIab. — Swan River 

 (Lea). 



126. H. viciNUS, n.sp. 



Elongate ; head oval ; prothorax shagreened, canaliculate, 

 subcordate, obliquely angustate to base ; elytra oval, shoulders 

 rounded. Black, subsericeous ; mouth parts fuscous ; antennae 

 infuscate; legs pale testaceous with apices of femora, tibiae and 

 joints of tarsi infuscate. 



* Bull. Mosc, 1872, xlv., p. 388. 



