710 ' NOTES ON AUSTRALIAN COLEOPTERA, 



Phlceocarabus Crudelis, Newm. sp. 



C? Dromius crudelis, Newm.). 



The insect to which I have applied this name is probably identical 

 with that on which the brief description of Dromius crudelis^ 

 Newm., was founded. That description deals only with colour and 

 markings, — and those only in very general terms. If I should 

 prove to be wrong in this identification there will be no harm done 

 as in that case the probability is that Newman's insect is not a 

 Phlceocarabus, and then both names can stand. 



The species before me will be thus characterized : — 

 Sat elongatus ; sat depressus; minus nitidus ; testaceus ; capite 

 supra, elytrorum macula (forma complicata) magna, et sternis 

 abdomineque latera versus (hoc apice quoque), nigris ; capite 

 prothorace longiori, confertim subtiliter rugato ; prothorace capite 

 vix latiori, quam longiori vix quarta parte latiori, basi quam antice 

 sat angustiori, canaliculato, transversim subtilissime strigoso, lati- 

 tudine majori paullo ante medium posita, angulis (anticis rotundatis) 

 posticis distinctis obtusis, lateribus sat rotundatis pone medium 

 sinuatis ; elytris sat fortiter striatis, apice singulatim late rotun- 

 datis, interstitiis subconvexis. Long. 3-3|, lat. 1-1^ (vix) lines. 

 The black patch on the elytra occupies the greater part of the 

 surface ; the hinder portion resembles the dark fascia of P. um- 

 hratus but is extended nearly to the lateral margins ; the middle 

 of the anterior edge, however, of that fascia is continued widely 

 forward and then again dilates into a large quadrate patch almost 

 or quite touching the base. It should be noted that the prothorax 

 is reddish testaceous, the other pale parts yellowish. 

 Apparently common in various parts of S. Australia ; it occurs 

 also in Western Australia. 



EcTROMA, gen.nov. 



In the Berliner Ent. Zeit. 1873, p. 54, note, the Baron de 

 Chaudoir stated that Cymindis inquinata, Er., Dromius trideois, 



