BY THE REV. T. BLACKBURN. ' 709 



not much behind the scutellum. The width across the prothorax 

 is scarcely half as great as across the elytra. 



S. Australia ; Adelaide ; also near Port Augusta. 



Phlcegcarabus umbratus, sp.nov. 



Minus elongatus ; minus depressus ; minus nitidus ; testaceus, 

 capite antice (et abdomine maculatim) infuscatis, elytris pone 

 medium fascia lata angulata fusca (latera haud attingenti) ornatis; 

 capite pr*othorace longiori, subtilissime vix manifeste punctulato ; 

 prothorace capite paullo latiori, quam longiori quarta parte latiori, 

 basi quam antice sat angustiori, canaliculato, transversim subti- 

 lissime strigoso, latitudine majori paullo ante medium posita, 

 angulis (anticis rotundatis) posticis distinctis obtusis, lateribus sat 

 rotundatis pone medium sinuatis; elytris minus fortiter striatis, 

 apice conjunctim rotuudato-truneatis, striis latera versus obsoletis, 

 interstitiis planis. [Long. '2^-31, lat. 1-1^ lines. 



The lateral extension of the fascia on the elytra is somewhat 

 greater than of the spot on the elytra of F. unimaculatus, its front 

 margin is angulated on the suture (which it crosses slightly in 

 front of the middle) and also on each side of the same ; it is not 

 extended up the suture farther forward than it is at the lateral 

 angulations ; its hind margin is angulated on the suture and also 

 at two or three points on either side, the sutural angulation 

 extending furthest back (in some examples nearly to the apex) 

 the lateral angulations being successively less prolonged hind- 

 ward ; in some examples fine fuscous lines run out hindward at 

 intervals along the hind margin of the fascia. 



A distinctly wider and less depressed species than the preceding, 

 the prothorax distinctly transverse and distinctly more than half 

 as wide as the elytra with front angles evidently less produced 

 forward and the width at the base evidently less in proportion 

 to the width of the front ; the pattern on the elytra very different 

 and the interstices of the same much flatter. 



Near Adelaide; usually in flood refuse. 



