520 ON CARABIDjE from west AUSTRALIA. 



The figures in the tables are approximate only, but as nearly 

 accurate as the nature of the suliject allows, and may, I believe, 

 be accepted as substantially correct. It may be as well to note that 

 nineteen species, belonging to eighteen genera, are found in both 

 these areas, nine of which belong to nine endemic genera. 



The conclusions deducible from the facts here presented are of 

 a negative rather than a positive character, but the following 

 seem worthy of being noted : — (1) The noticeable absence from 

 South-west Australia of most of the Oriental types which are 

 found in Eastern Australia ; (2) the great development of the 

 Licinini (4 genera, 2 of which are peculiar); (3) the abundance of 

 the Promecoderides, an Australian group characteristic of the 

 Eyrean subregion (3 genera and 16 species in S.W. Australia 

 against 1 genus [Promecoderus] with two widely distributed 

 species in Riverina.) 



