210 ON THE CARENIDES (FAM. CARABID.E), 



penultimate joint stout, not longer than apical joint. Black, 

 opaque, marginal channel of prothorax dull bronze, of elytra 

 greenish bronze. 



Head transverse (3 '3 x 5 '5 mm.), frontal sulci strongly impressed, 

 diverging backwards and defining posterior margin of spaces 

 between sulci and eyes; space between frontal sulci rounded on 

 base and not filling all the interval between their posterior 

 extremities ; preocular sulcus well marked ; preocular process 

 small; eyes convex, deeply embedded in orbits; a well marked 

 oblique impression dividing submentum from gena? on each side; 

 two supraorbital punctures on each side Antennas short, moni- 

 liform; joints 5-10 short, verj' depressed. Prothorax ti'ansverse 

 (4*5 X 7 mm.), hardly declivous to base; a small basal area defined 

 by a transverse impression ; sides lightly rounded, decidedly 

 rounded to anterior angles; these wide, obtuse, lightly advanced; 

 posterior angles not marked; basal curve oblique (very widely and 

 lightly sinuate) on each side of middle, rounded in middle, border 

 thick, lightly explanate at anterior angles, a little more prominent 

 at posterior angles, median line strongly impressed. Elytra short 

 (9-5 X 7 mm.), truncate at base, widely rounded at apex, strongly 

 rounded on sides (seven shallow crenulate stride on each elytron 

 of specimen befoi'e me), each elytron bipunctate posteriorly, the 

 anterior of these punctures placed about middle of width at 

 beginning of .apical declivity, the other half-way between it and 

 apex. Prosternum widely channelled between coxfe, a setigerous 

 puncture on each side of base. Ventral segments convex, 

 bipunctate. 



Length 20, breadth 7 mm. 



H'lh. — Queensland; Cardwell (Coll. French). 



The affinity of this species as disclosed by the form of the 

 suborbital channels, the three marginal punctures of the pro- 

 thorax, the wide inflexed margin of the elytra, and the form of 

 the palpi and legs, is to C. interruptum, Macl. It is the only 

 species without discoidal punctures on the anterior part of the 

 elytra presenting all these features that I have seen. Probably 

 it comes nearer C. subcostatum , Macl., than any other described 

 species, and fresh specimens would probably show obsolete strire 



