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NOTES ON AUSTRALIAN COLEOPTERA, WITH 

 DESCRIPTIONS OF NEW SPECIES. 



By the Rev. T. Blackburn, B.A., Cork. Mem. 



Part VIII. 

 CARABID.^. 



PhILOPHLCEUS OCCIDENTALIS, Sp.nOV. 



Nitidus ; minus pubescens ; piceus, antennis (basi testacea 

 excepta) capite prothorace et elytrorum marginibus omnibus 

 rufescentibus, palpis femoribusque testaceis ; capite obscure 

 subrugulose punctulato ; prothorace quam longiori fere duplo 

 latiori, antice arcuatim einarginato, lateribus fortiter rotun- 

 datis in medio subangulatis utrinque punctis piliferis 4 

 instructis, angulis posticis vix distinctis subrotundatis, basi 

 bisinuata media parte late leviter lobata ; elytris minus sub- 

 tiliter minus crebre punctulatis. [Long. 4, lat. If lines. 



Maris tarsorum intermediorum articulis basalibus 3 subtus sat 

 spongiosis. 



I have seen only a single example of this species which is in the 

 collection of C. French, Esq., Melbourne ; it is therefore possible 

 that the colours may be a little variable. Only one tldlojMceus 

 has been previously named having the intermediate tarsi of the 

 male as described above, and also the disc of the elytra devoid of 

 markings, viz., P. immacidatits, Chaud. That species can hardly 

 be said to have been described since (according to Baron de 

 Chaudoir's usual fashion) it is simply distinguished from P. Aus- 

 fralasice, which again is simply distinguislied from P. intermedins 

 and that from P. australis. However, working out the calculation 



