168 THE CARABIDAE OF TASIIANIA, 



2 (1) Prothorax flat on each side of base, the depressed area bordered ex- 



ternally by the lateral border, basal angles rounded: third interstice 

 of elytra 2-punctate. 



3 (6) Prothorax very broad: elytra with interstices convex, nitid in both 



sexes. 



4 (5) Elytra with striae crenulate. Length. 14 — 1.5 mm. goryi Guer. 



5 (4) Elytra with striae simple. Length. 12 mm. .. . brez'icollix Chdi-ad. 



6 (3) Prothorax lightly transverse: elytra with interstices depressed, opaque 



in ?. Length, 12 mm ' miniita Cast. 



yote. — Bates reported T). ptinctipennis Cast., as a Tasmanian species received 

 from Mr. Simson ; perlia])s tliis may be the same speeies which I have identified 

 as D. qtiadricollis Cast. 



DlCKOt'HILE QUADRICOLLIS Cast. 



c?. Black. Head large. Prothorax subtiuadrate (2.5 X 3.G mm.), widest' 

 before middle; base and apex of equal width (3 mm.); sides subsinuate pos- 

 teriorly; basal angles marked; a concavity on each side of base extending to the 

 strongly upturned margins. Elytra -wide, strongly striate; striae simple; mter- 

 stices hardly convex, third 3-punctate. "\^entral segments 3 — 5 setigero-piuictate. 

 Length, 15, breadth. 6 mm. 



Hob. — Flinders Is. (Simson, No. 2375). Also found in Victoria. 



I unhesitatingly identify this species as I). quacJricollis Cast. ; it is conspecific 

 with specimens in my collection from Mooroolbark (eastward of IMelbourne). In 

 the ?, the ventral segments ai-e without setigerous punctures. 



DiCROCHiLE GORYi Guerin. 



jl„h. — Falmouth (Simson). Very widely spread in Australia. 



DiCROCiTiLE BREVicOLLis Chaudoir. 



jiab. — Great Lake (Simson). Widely spread in Australia. 



DiCROCHiLE MiNUTA Castelnau. 



Jfob .—Hobart (Lea); Epping (Griffith). In a note. Mr. Lea says, "I'ound 

 by Mr. Gritlith flying plentifully in Eppin.g Forest at dusk." Common and wide- 

 ly spread on the mainland. It may be noted that in all the specimens I liavc ex- 

 amined, only two punctures have been present on the (liivd interstice of tlic elytra, 

 though Castelnau gives the number as three. 



Tribe Oodini. 

 Genus o d e s. 

 OODEs MODESTl's Casteliiau. 

 //«!-.— Evandale (Simson, No. 3502). 



Genus C p t o c A r p u s. 

 C0PT0CAi!PUS AUSTRALis Dejcan. 

 Hah. — Launceston. Ea.«t Tamar. Evandale (Simson). 

 Tribe Tetragonoderini. 

 Genus S a r o t ir n « c r e p i s. 



Lebionwrphn (fjeii. itied.) Chaudoir. Eetrnma (nom praeor.) Blackburn. 



T have found the characters on which Blm-kburn sought to establish his cenus 



