NOTES ON AUSTRAIJAN COLEOPTERA, WITH 

 DESCRIPTIONS OF NEW SPECIES. 



By the Rev. T. Blackburn, B.A., Cork. Mem. Linn. Soc. N.S.W. 



Part III. 



The following notes and descriptions embody the results of the 

 study of various Coleoptera chiefly belonging to my own collection. 



CARABID.^. 



EuTOMA (Carenum) sumptuosum, Westw. 



I have received from Dr. Bovill a very remarkable insect taken 

 in the N. Territory which appears to be probably identical with 

 the type on which Prof. West wood's brief description of this 

 insect was founded. It agrees very exactly in size and proportions 

 (long. 10, lat. 3 lines) and with such scanty record of the sculp- 

 tural characters as the Professor gives, viz., — "two punctures on 

 the elytra near the base and two others subapical " (these four 

 punctures are very large and strong), — also, " front tibise exter- 

 nally bidentate " (the teeth are very long and acute, and the 

 smaller teeth above them are so placed as to be quite invisible 

 when the tibia is looked straight down upon). These characters 

 would be quite insufficient, of course, for identification among the 

 great number of Australian Scaritidce now known, — but the 

 colouring mentioned in the description is so peculiar that I think 

 it justifies my identification. Professor Westwood describes it 

 thus, — "nigrum, igneo colore varium." In the example before me 

 the head is black with the exception of the portion behind the 

 eyes (all across) and part of the space between the eyes and the 

 frontal sulci, which are bright green. The prothorax all round the 



