200 CARABIDi® FROM THE UPPER WILLIAMS RIVER, N.S.W., 



Hah. — Mount Royal Range, N.S.W. Five specimens were 

 found under logs in the Fagus-brush along the Williams River, at 

 4,500 feet. 



A distinct species, diifering from all the species hitherto de- 

 scribed by having only the three inner strife on each elytron 

 present; these stripe ai-e only marked before the apical declivity, 

 which is lajvigate, as is also the lateral part of each elytron out- 

 side the third interstice; in these respects, it agrees with the small 

 species, M. nunw described below. 



Meonis minor, n.sp. 



Elongate-oval, convex. Black. 



Head ordinary (TT mm. across eyes). Prothorax truncate- 

 cordate, about as long as broad (2-4 x 2-5 mm.), of equal width 

 at apex and base (1-8 mm.); sides lightly rounded, strongly sinu- 

 ate to base; base truncate; basal angles sharply marked. Elytra 

 oval (4-7 X 3 mm.), lightly 3-striate on disc; sides and apical de- 

 clivity laivigate; humeral angles marked, subdentate. Length 

 8 "5-9, breadth 3 mm. 



Hah. — Mount Royal Range, N.S.W. Three specimens in 

 brushes at the source of the Barrington River, 5,000 feet. 



Allied to M. semistriafus SI., but the great diiference in size 

 (which is constant in the five specimens of J/, semistriatus, and 

 the three specimens of Jf. minor, which I have seen), constrains 

 me to regard it as a distinct species. In the case of M. an<ivsti' 

 Gollis SI., of which I found examples of two distinct sizes at 

 Dorrigo, specimens of the different sizes occurred together; but 

 with JA semistriatus and M. minor, the specimens were found 

 several miles apart, at different altitudes, and on different water- 

 sheds; further collecting to ascertain the range and variation in 

 size of these two species is necessary before a definite opinion can 

 be given on the position to be assigned to M. mhior; that is, 

 whether, or not, it is merely a variety of M. semistriatiis. Com- 

 paring M. minor with the smaller form of M. angusticollis, it is 

 noticed that the prothorax is shorter, wider, less strongly rounded 

 on sides, basal sinuosity shorter, elytra less rounded on sides, less 



