598 NEW AUSTRALIAN SPECIES OF CAKABID^, 



beside each basal angle. Prothorax short, transverse, convex, 

 widest at posterior angles, strongly narrowed to apex; basal curve 

 short, inner angles hardly marked; apex truncate; anterior angles 

 rounded; lateral furrow wide, closed behind by a transverse ridge 

 connecting border with pronotum at posterior angles; two lateral 

 setigerous punctures as in Clivina-. anterior transverse sulcus 

 deep. Elytra stout, convex, strongly striate-punctate; stride free 

 at base; interstices convex, most strongly so on apical declivity, 

 extremities of 2-6 distant from apex, seventh convex on apical 

 declivity. Ventral segments transversely sulcate. Prosternum 

 convex, wide between coxa»; intercoxal declivity transversely 

 sulcate; peduncle with a concavity on each side; metasternum 

 not long. Legs stout; anterior femora short, wide; anterior 

 tibiae large, 3 dentate, teeth strong, upper one opposite insertion 

 of upper inner spine, middle one before insertion of inner apical 

 spine, apical one long, stout, curved outwards, obtuse at apex; 

 middle tibise incrassate, with a strong apical spur and an obtuse 

 prominence on outer side above apical spur ; posterior cox^e 

 contiguous. 



A new genus has seemed necessary for the reception of this 

 remarkable species, which, in facies, resembles the species of the 

 American species Aspidoglossa, though it is not allied to that 

 genus. I know of no species nearly allied to it; probably its 

 position is between Dyschirius and Clivina. Attention may be 

 drawn to the lateral furrow of the elyti-a, in which, towards the 

 base, the punctures of the normal eighth stria of the Carabida- 

 may be seen, as well as those of the seventh stria; between these 

 rows of punctures, the umbilicate punctures of the normal ninth 

 interstice occur; the ninth interstice itself is lost in the lateral 

 furrow, as is always the case in Clivina, though not in Dyschirius. 



Rhysocara crassa, n.sp. 



Q. Robust, convex, winged. Head rugose, eyes prominent, 

 clypeus with median part deeply emarginate, not divided from 

 lateral parts; prothorax short, subtrapezoid; elytra truncate at 

 base, strongly punctate-striate, strife entire, fi\e inner ones free 

 at base, submarginal humeral carina obsolete; prosternum with 



