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rupted a little behind shoulders; lateral border wide, reflexed, with a 

 well marked sinuosity on each side towards apex ; recurved part 

 of sutural stria shortly but strongly marked near apical 

 sinuosity of border. 



Length 1-9, bi-eadth 0-9 mm. 



Hab. — Urana District, N.S.W. 



This little species much resembles T. Jlindersi, Blkb., at a 

 casual glance ; but it differs in the shape of the prothorax, which 

 in T. Jlindersi is very strongly transversely impressed behind, and 

 has the sides decidedly sinuate before the base, the basal angles 

 lieing prominent ; the elytra, too, in T. fliitdersi are narrower, 

 with the humeral angles more prominent, and the puncturation 

 finer. 



F E R N I X I . 



In his Essay on the Classification of the Carabidse, published in 

 the Trans. Am. Ent. Soc, ix, 1881, which I believe is the latest 

 comprehensive work on the subject. Dr. G. H. Horn has discarded 

 Lacordaire's tribal name Feronides in favour of Pterostichini, 

 though without giving his reasons for so doing. I prefer to re- 

 tain the name adopted by Lacordaire for the tribe, because it is 

 more familiar, because I do not know Dr. Horn's reasons 

 for changing it, and because I would associate under it a far more 

 extensive group of genera than Dr. Horn places in his Pterostichini. 



In addition to the genera tabulated and mentioned below as 

 allied to Pterostichus, I would include in the Feronini, LpArodira, 

 Vyrtoderibs, Delinius, Lesticus, Mecynognathus, Moiyhnos, Nuri- 

 dius and Catadromus ; and I believe the limits of the tribe should 

 be further extended to take in the Morionini, which seem to me 

 to be separated from the Feronini on very artificial grounds, 

 Catadromus may be considered a genus connecting the two tribes, 

 it having the weak basal border of the elytra, and four glabrous 

 joints of the antennae which characterise the Morionini. 



After the death of Baron de Chaudoir, the elucidation of the 

 Australian Feronini remained in Australian hands till 1891, 

 when M. Tschitscherine entered the lists with a short but 

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