784 NOTES ON AUSTRALIAN COLEOPTERA, 



Victorian Alps ; on a mountain called Baldi, at an elevation of 

 about 6000 feet above the sea. The specimen was embedded in 

 snow. 



Tachys ovensensis, sp.nov. 



Subovalis; nitidus; niger vel piceo-niger ; mandibulis, abdomine, 

 et macula magna ad vel ante elytrorum apicem posita, rufis ; 

 antennarum basi pedibusque testaceis ; prothorace sat fortiter 

 transverse, postice quam antice vix latiori, obsolete canali- 

 culato, postice utrinque impresso et mox ante basin trans- 

 versim sulcato (sulco obscure punctulato), lateribus sat 

 anguste marginatis antice fortiter rotundatis postice fere 

 rectis, angulis posticis acute rectis fere subdentatis ; elytris 

 singulis strias 2 juxta suturam (2'' antice posticeque abbreviata, 

 I'* circum apicem continuata et in disco antrorsum producta) 

 2que juxta marginem lateralem profunde impressas ferentibus, 

 in disco puncturis 2 setiferis instructis. 



[Long. If-li, lat. f line. 



Structurally near T. Baldiensis but with the apical joint of the 

 maxillary palpi very evidently shorter, the prothorax narrower in 

 propoition to the elytra and the elytra of much less oval form 

 (less narrowed in front and with the sides more parallel). Owing 

 to the sides of the prothorax being strongly rounded immediately 

 behind the front that segment at a casual glance appears to be 

 narrowed hindward, bvit in reality the base is slightly wider than 

 the front margin. Usually the red spot on each elytron is large 

 and round, placed a little before the apex, almost touching the 

 suture and lateral margin, and A^ery conspicuous ; I have one 

 specimen in which it is almost obsolete and another in which it is 

 extended so that more than the apical third part of the elytra is 

 red. The striaj of the elytra are quite impunctate. The facies 

 of this species and the next is quite that of Bembidkini, but the 

 recurved sutural stria and the structure of the anterior tibiee seem 

 to place both the insects in Tachys. 



Victoria ; banks of the Ovens River. 



