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NEW AUSTRALIAN SPECIE8 OF CARABID.E BELONG- 

 ING TO THE TRIBE SCARITIXI. 



[coleoptera.] 



By Thomas G. Sloane. 



It had been my intention to have reviewed the tribe Scaritini 

 as I'cpresented in Australia, as a whole, and to have dealt with 

 the classification of the genera, and the arrangement and syno- 

 nymy of the species; but the realisation of tliis idea has had to be 

 postponed, so that only the new species (including the interest- 

 ing species found by Mr. H. W. Brown in the Murchison District 

 of Western Australia, at Cue and Anketell) which have accu- 

 mulated in my hands; and for which, in some cases, my corres- 

 pondents are waiting for published names, are dealt with herein. 



Rhysocara, n.gen 



Allied to Clivina. Head irregularly and strongly longitudin- 

 ally furrowed, the median furrow deep; front with a strong 

 transverse I'idge behind median part of clypeus; supra-antennal 

 plates wide, obliquel}' tumid in front of eyes, external margin 

 bordered; clypeus strongly angularly-emarginate, lateral parts* 

 rounded; eyes large, globose. Anlennce short, incrassate; two 

 basal joints glabrous, third cylindrical, hardly shorter than 

 second, sparsely setulose; joints 5-11 short, wide, pubescent. 

 Mentum with prominent median tooth; a setigerous puncture 



* It is now proposed to use the term lateral parts for the side-pieces of 

 the clypeiis situated between the median part of the clypeus and the supra- 

 antennal plates of the head. Hitherto, I have followed Putzeys in calling 

 the.se side-pieces the "wings" of tlie clypeus, Init there are decided olijee- 

 tions to the use of the militarj' term irimj for the lateral part of a bodj-- 

 segment; therefore, it is better to discontinue its use, 



