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piceous red; tour anterior coxae, temora, and apex of posterior trochanters testa- 

 ceous; tibiae, tarsi, and four anterior troclianters ferruginous; extreme a]K-x of 

 femora and tibiae infuseate. 



Head ordinary (1.3 mm. across eyes), lightly bi-impressed. Proti.orax 

 transverse (1.5 ^ 2 mm.), widest before middle; sides lightly curved to apex, 

 oblique to base ; apex lightly emarginate ; base lightly emargiuate in middle ; basal 

 angles marked, almost rectangular, obtuse at summit; base depressed, bi-impressed 

 and covered with a decided puucturation on each side; a posterior marginal seta 

 present just within basal angle. Elytra truncate-oval (3.6 X 2.3 mm.), lightly 

 convex; second and fourtli interstices wider than third; seventh and eighth inter- 

 stices equal, convex, narrower than ninth ; striole at base of second interstice elon- 

 gate; punctures of third interstice interrupting its course. Length, 6.5, breadth, 

 2.3 mm. 



Hab. — Waratab (Lea). Unique. 



A distinct species dift'ering from all others, except P. yarre)isi.'< SI., and P. 

 foveipennis MacL, by its testaceous leg's; from P. yarrensis it differs greatly by 

 I olour ; prothorax strongly punctate ; elytra with interstices more convex, especially 

 the narrower eighth. The specimen before me has a foveiform depression on the 

 fifth interstice, half-way between the two posterior punctures of the third inter- 

 stice. 



Prosopoghus monochrous Chaudoir. 



(^ Hormochiliis id., = Eccoptogenius feronoides Castelnau.) 



ffa&.— Launceston (Simson No. 2477); Hobart (Lea). Also found in the 

 coastal districts of Victoria and N . S . Wales. 



Prosopogmus coracinds Erichson, 



(= Pterostichus id., = Ceneus chali/beipennis Chaudoir, = Feroiiia vili^.) 



Castelnau). 

 Prosopogmus delicatulus Tschitscherine (1898). (Feronia (Ophryosternus) ea.) 



Its most apparent differences from P. oodiformis Macl,, a common species on 

 the mainland, are its bluish-green colour, and infuseate tarsi and antennae. 

 Hab. — Launceston, East Tamar (Simson). 



Genus R h a b d o t u s. 

 RiiABOOTUS EEPLEXUS Chaudoir. 



Pterostichus diemenensis Cast., is synonymous witli 1!. rcflexus Chaud., 

 and I would reduce E. floridus Bates to a variety. Chaudoir descritied R. 

 reflcxus as black, sides of prothorax subsinuate, basal angle rectangular; ir. 

 jloridus Bates has similar angles, but is, as Bates says, "distinguished from 

 JV. reflexiis by the rich, uniform, purple colour of the elytra." A specimen 

 from Zeehan has head black, prothorax nigro-vireseent, elytra jniiitle; 

 jirothorax wider than usual at base, basal angles rather obtuse, sides curving very 

 lightly to base. AVith the large series of specimens I have befm-e me 1 cannot 

 draw any defuiite line dividing P. flaridus from R. reflexus; there seems every 

 degree of variation of colour from the l)lack specimens to the most highly coloured. 



Ilab. — K. reflexus, typical form : Mount Wellington, Ben Lomond, 4000 feet, 

 Forester River (Simson). Var. floridu: Zeehan, Strahan (Simson, Nos. 3040 

 3317, 3464); Cradle Mountain, Waratah, Mag-net, Devonport (Lea). 



