608 NEW AUSTRALIAN SPECIES OF CARABIDiE, 



narrow margin on each side; three setigerous punctures on eacli 

 side of base. Intercoxal part of presternum with a setigerous 

 puncture on each side near coxal cavity.* Posterior trochanters 

 with a setigerous puncture. Length, 11; breadth, 3-7 mm. 



Hah. — Port Darwin (Dodd). Type in Coll. Sloane (unique). 



This small species is allied to L. darwiiiiensis ]\Iacl , from 

 which it differs by its black colour, smaller size, etc. It differs 

 from L. macleayi SI., by its shorter and more convex form; eyes 

 less prominent; border of elytra and prothorax narrower; elytral 

 foveje smaller, lateral ocellate punctures not placed in depres- 

 sions, etc. 



Cakenum LEPlDtiM, n.sp. 



Elliptical, convex. Head depressed, frontal sulci short, lightly 

 divergent; prothorax transverse, convex, margins wide, posterior 

 angles rounded off; elytra convex, widely subemarginate at base, 

 impunctaie, border dentate at humeral angles; anterior tibite 

 3-dentate. Head and undersurface black ; prothorax black, 

 becoming violaceous towards sides, border viridescent; elvtra 

 purple, bluish-green near sides. 



Head transverse (6 mm. across eyes) ; front subdepressed ; 

 frontal sulci arcuate-sinuate, lightly divergent backwards; eyes 

 subprominent; intermediate angles of clypeus stout, triangular, 

 obtuse at apex; preocular process small, lounded externally. 

 Antenn:e submoniliform, setaceous. Prothorax convex, trans- 

 verse (5'3 X 8-4 mm.); sides rounded, anterior angles wide, obtuse, 

 decidedly advanced; posterior angles rounded, not marked; basal 

 curve arcuate on each side behind posterior angles, lightly sinu- 

 ate on each side of base; border retlexed, hardly wider at pos- 

 terior angles; marginal channel wide; base shortly lobate; median 

 line strongly impressed; two marginal setigerous punctures on 

 each side. Elytra oval, wider than prothorax (13x9 mm.), wide 

 at base; border folded over and upturned at humeral angles; 

 lateral channel wide; four or five punctures on base of each 



* A similar puncture is found in L. darimniensis Macl. , L. cyanens Fabr. , 

 and L. humeraHs SI., but not, that I have been able to detect, in L. locn- 

 losnii Newni., L. ^ipenceri Westw., and L. machayi SI. 



