412 CARABID.E FROM TROPICAL AUSTRALIA, 



roundly truncate; margins wide towards base; border narroAv: 

 lateral basal impressions obsolete; median line fine. Elytra 

 widely ovate (4 x 3-3 mm.;, hardly wider between humeral angles 

 than base of prothorax, rather sharply widened behind humeral 

 angles, widest about middle, lightly convex; humeral angles sub- 

 prominent, inner humeral angles subrectangular; striae lightly 

 impressed on disc, deeper towards apex, sixth and seventh hardly 

 perceptible about middle of their course, ninth with the seriate 

 punctures widely iuteriupted behind basal fifth. Length, 6*5; 

 breadth, 3-3 mm. 



Hab. — Queensland : Innisfail. Type in Coll. Sloane. A 

 single specimen occurred to me in the dense scrub in June. 



Differs from all other species known to me by its more shining 

 colour, and wider form: prothorax wider, more rounded on sides, 

 less narrowed to base. 



Genus E u T u k N a R u s. 



EUTHENARUS BRUNNEUS, H.Sp. 



Elongate-oval, convex, not shagreened. Head large, front 

 and clypeus bifoveolate : prothorax subquadrate, strongly punc- 

 tate across base ; basal angles obtuse : elytra oval, strongly 

 striate; second interstice without a striole at base, third unipunc- 

 tate a little Ijehind middle : tarsi short. Light brown: legs tes- 

 taceous: antenna infuscate, two basal joints testaceous. 



Prothorax broader than long (1*5 x 1 8 mm.), widest before 

 middle, a little wider across base ( 1 5 mm.) than apex (1 4 mm.); 

 sides lightly rounded anteriorly, obliquely and lightly narrowed 

 to base: basal angles roundly obtuse; base roundly truncate; 

 margins narrow anteriorly, lather wide towards base; a wide, 

 strongly punctate space across base from side to side; basal fovete 

 shallow, wide; median line lightly marked. Elytra considerably 

 wider tlian prothorax ( 1 x 2 5 mm.), strongly declivous to sides 

 and apex : inner humeral angles roundly open ; striic deep : 

 inner interstices convex. Prosternum with a few fine setae 

 before coxie and on point. Abdomen sparsely setulose, inter- 

 coxal fovea wanting. Male with four basal joints of four 

 anterior tarsi dilatate; squamulai of undersurface sparse, set in 



