BY THOMAS G. SLOANE. 297 



Hah. — Southern Queensland (Law; Coll. Sloane). 



Closely allied to N. nitidicoUls, Chaud., with which it agrees 

 in all general features — as antennae, labrum, borders of prothorax 

 and elytra, &c.; but differing by colour; 9 with eyes more promi- 

 nent; elytra more convex, with flatter interstices, scutellar striole 

 shorter, lateral sinuosities of apex weaker. 



NoTONOMUS NiTiDicoLLis, Chaud. 



Bull. Mosc. 1865. ii. p. 8S ; Feronia (Pterostichus) master^si, 

 Casteln., Trans. Roy. Soc. Vict. viii. p. 211; F. {Ft.) impressi- 

 collis, Casteln., I.e., p. 212; IV. viridicinctiis, Macl., Trans. Ent 

 Soc. N.S.W. 1871, ii. p. 108; K angustipennis, Macl., I.e., 109. 



Elongate-oval, robust. Head small : prothorax subcordate, 

 sinuate on sides before base; basal angles subrectangular; posterior 

 marginal puncture a little before the base on inner side of lateral 

 channel : elytra oval, deeply striate; third interstice 2-punctate, 

 eighth narrow, convex; humeral angles strongly dentate. Black; 

 head and prothorax nitid with metallic reflections of a brassy or 

 purplish tinge; elytra subopaque, bronzy purple, eighth and ninth 

 interstices more metallic, the wide lateral channel sometimes 

 brassy green. 



Head small (2*2 mm. across eyes); vertex lightly transversely 

 impressed; front biimpressed, the impressions rather deep, sharply 

 defined, extending backwards from clypeal punctures and diver- 

 gent posteriorly; eyes convex, subprominent. Antennae not long, 

 joints short towards apex. Labrum lightly longitudinally im- 

 pressed in middle, rounded on anterior margin. Prothorax rather 

 small, broader than long (3 x 3*5 mm.), depressed towards base, 

 faintly transversely striolate (but nitid); sides lightly and almost 

 equally rounded, shortly but decidedly sinuate before base; apex 

 (2-4 mm.) hardly as wide as base (2*5 mm.), emarginate; anterior 

 angles marked, obtuse; base emarginate in middle, truncate on 

 each side; angles rectangular, obtuse at summit; lateral border 

 narrow, a little wider and more decidedly reflexed on basal half; 

 median line deep, extending from base almost to apex; lateral 



