740 NOTES ON AUSTRALIAN COLEOPTERA, 



utrinque ad basin posito ; elytris fortius striatis, striis Isevibus, 

 interstitiis planis, stria abbreviata scutellari foveiformi, basali. 



[Long 2 (vix), lat. | line. 

 Near Adelaide ; a single example. 



ANCHOMENIDES. 



Lestignathus minor, sp.nov. 



Sat elongatus ; sat robustus ; niger vix viridi-seneus ; antennis 

 (articulis basalibus 3 plus minus piceis exceptis), palpis, tarsisque 

 rufescentibus ; pedibus piceis ; capite sat angusto, oculis magnis 

 prominulis ; prothorace qiiam longiori diraidia fere parte latiori, 

 antice quam postice sat angustiori, pone marginem anticum bre- 

 viter profunde transversim impresso, sat fortiter canaliculato, 

 lateribus ab angulis anticis (his obtuse productis) ad basin gra- 

 datim magis fortiter explanatis, angulis posticis rotundatis ; elytris 

 quam prothorax vix duplo latioribus, fortiter striatis, striis Isevibus, 

 interstitiis (prsesertim postice) convexis. [Long. 5, lat. 2i lines. 



This species has something of the facies of Agonum. 



Port Lincoln ; a single example vi^as found running in the 

 sunshine on sandhills behind the beach. 



Platynus marginellus, Er. 



I have in my collection a series of specimens from various 

 localities which tally perfectly M^ith Erichson's description, but if 

 I am right in my identification (of which I feel no doubt) that 

 description omits a very distinctive character, — viz., that the c5rd 

 stria on the elytra is conspicuously deepened from near its base to 

 about the middle, the 5th stria also presenting a similar structure 

 less conspicuously near the apex. Specimens from Western Australia 

 appear to be a little more robust in build, with slightly stouter an- 

 tennse, these latter and thelegs being of a paler colour thanin average 

 examples taken near Adelaide, but there seems no reason to con- 

 sider them as specifically distinct. I suspect that Anchomenus 



