120 THE C'ARABIDAE OF TASMANIA, 



lower side (usuallj' armed with a denticule) ; posterior trochanters very long aud 

 obtusely pointed; anterior tarsi with four, intermediate with two joints clothed 

 beneath. Leng1:h, 11 — 14.5 mm. 



Hah. — Denison Gorge, Ben Lomond (Simson No. 3052); Strahan (Carter and 

 Lea); Marrawali. Wilmot, Sheffield, Burnie, Devonport. Ulverstone (Lea). 



Var. ovicoLLis Cast. I can only regard P. ovicollis Cast., as a variety of 

 P. brunnicornis Dejean, from which it differs by its more convex form, reddish 

 antennae, c? with anterior femora less swoUen beneath, and with the denticule 

 obsolete; posterior femora less ampliate on lower side, posterior trochanters 

 stouter and shorter. 



Hab.—Laxmceston. Great Lake (Simson, No. .3091); Hobart (Lea). 



PROiiEcoDERUs GiBBO.su.s Gray. 



(= p. mastersi Macleay.) 



Distinguished by its convex form, sharply marked ba.sal angles of prothorax, 



strongly striate elytra, fourth and fifth ventral segments with a trausvei-se linear 



impression on each side. Length, 13 — 16 mm. I cannot now differentiate P. moii- 



tersi MacL, of the mainland from the Tasmania-i P. gibhosus. 



Ilab. — Launceston, Brighton, Avoea, Hobart (Simson, No. 1166); Ulver- 

 stone (Lea). 



Promecoderus curvipes, sp. nov. 



Elongate-oval, depressed; head transversely impressed across vertex; pro- 

 thorax oval, depressed, abruptly declivous to basal angles, these open; elytra 

 oval, depressed on disc, lightly striate, interstices depressed, a little undulate; 

 ventral segments 4- -6 foveolate on each side. Bronzed — or aeneous — black; liead 

 and prothorax nitid, rather virescent; inflexed margins of elytra rather cupreous; 

 undersurface and femora nitid, virescent; tibiae, tarsi, and antennae piceous 

 brown. 



Head large (2.75 mm. across eyes); vertex convex; eyes round, convex; 

 postoeular part of orbits well developed, about one half size of eyes. Protiiorax 

 rather oval (4 X 3.9 mm.), widest about anterior third; sides lightly rounded; 

 apex wide, lightly emarginate ; anterior angles a little prominent, not near neck : 

 disc depressed; a wide, shallow, transverse impression before base; basal angles 

 obtuse, placed beneath a lateral declivity; border narrow, wider anteriorly than 

 posteriorly, obsolete on middle of base; median line lightly impressed. Elytra 

 oval (7.5 X 4.5 mm.), depressed (but not flat) on disc, a little declivous to 

 peduncle, wide across base, lightly rounded on sides; striae light, rather erenulate, 

 seventh and eighth obsolete. Apical ventral seginent in c? witli one. in 2 with 

 two setae on eacli side of apex. 



c?. — Anterior femora club-shaped, not suddenly inflated or dentate on lower 

 •side; posterior tibiae arcuate on lower side, wide at apex, densely fringed with 

 setae on apical half of lower side : anterior tarsi with four joints wide and 

 spongiose beneath; intermediate tarsi narrow, not clothed beneath. Lerisrtli. 

 12—14, breadth, 4.2—4.5 mm. 



TTah. — Tasmania (Simson, No. 3111) . 



Fourteen specimens have been examined. In ajipearance it resembles P. 

 hrinnvcornif: Dej.; l)ut differs by basal angles of prothorax more overlapped by 

 tlie sides of the segment, and less widely open; and by the following very distinct 

 characters of the male : — anterior femora not suddenly and greatly dilatate and 

 dentate on lower side; posterior trochanters shorter; posterior tibiae bent in- 



