STUDIES IN AUSTRALIAN ENTOxMOLOGY. 



No. L— REVIEW OF THE GENUS SARTICUS (CARABIDzE). 



By Thomas G. Sloane. 



Sarticus. 

 Sarticus, Motschulsky, Bull. Mosc. 1865, pt. iv., p. 265. 



This genus among the Feronides was founded in 1865 by M. 

 Victor Motschulsky. The same year and previously to Motschul- 

 sky's paper, Baron de Chaudoir* and Count de Castelnauf described 

 species belonging to Sarticus under the heading of Steropus 

 (Stei'oiyi australici, Chaud.). In 1874, when reviewing de Castle- 

 nau's species, J de Chaudoir adopted Motschulsky 's name Sarticus 

 for his Steropi australici. 



I find that Motschulsky 's definition of Sartictts cannot be taken 

 without modification ; the following are its characters as I would 

 define them. 



Head rather small, the facial impressions faint. 



Protlwrax rounded on the sides ; the basal angles rounded oflf ; 

 the lateral margins reflexed, more widely so towards the base ; 

 the median line impressed, ending behind in a punctiform impres- 

 sion ; a single deep and wide impression on each side near the 

 basal angles, touching the lateral margin at its posterior extremity ; 

 the marginal punctures ac the base small and placed on the edge 

 of the lateral margins ; a narrow entire border along the anterior 

 margin. 



Elytra wider than the prothorax, usually convex, striate, with 

 an abbreviated subscutellar stria between the suture and the first 

 stria. 



Abdomen with basal segment punctate. 



* Bull. Mosc. 1865, iii. p. 97. 



t Trans. Roy. Soc. Victoria, VIII. 



J Ann. Mus. Genov. 1874, VI, 



