418 CARABID^ FROM TROPICAL AUSTRALIA, 



0(8) Elytra glabrous, excepting for a single row series of setiferous 



punctures on third, fifth, and seventh interstices ohliquicep-^ SI. 



10(1) Head impunctate, glabrous. (Elytra with discal punctures only 

 on third interstice). 



11(12) Head with neck condyliform, Prothorax narrow, convex, 

 strongly and closely punctate; median line obsolete. Elytra 

 strongly punctate-striate on basal half. Femora piceous at 

 apex ohscnra Cast. 



12(11) Head with neck not condyliform. Prothorax subdepressed, 

 finelj^ punctate; median line strongly impressed. Elj'tra finelj- 

 punctate-striate. Legs unicolorous. 



13(14) Prothorax not ampliate at anterior third; lateral borders par- 

 allel. Prosternal episterna visible from above hrnnneipenni^ SI. 



•14(13) Prothorax ampliate at anterior third; lateral borders curved 

 outwards at widest part. Prosternal episterna hardly visible 

 from above. 



15(16) Prothorax punctate near base and apex, not on disc. Elytra 



nitid n Uida SI. 



10(15) Prothorax punctate on disc. Elytra subopaque (shagreened)... 



.mhlceris Macl. 



E. ivaterhousei Cast., of which no specimen was available, goes 

 beside E latipennis Macl. I have seen it from Central Australia 

 and Port Darwin. E. froggatti Macl., is unknown to me in 

 nature; I am not sure of its position in the genus according to 

 the table given above. Casnonia ainplipeniiis Gest., I would 

 refer to Eudalia, but I am not sure where to place it. 



N'ote. — In the genus Eudalia, the head has a narrow marginal 

 channel extending backwards from each side of the base of the 

 clypeus; in some species (e.g., E. sublcevis, E. nitida, and E. 

 brunneipennis) there is another, inner, narrow sulcus (at the 

 extremity of which is the anterior supraorbital seta), and, 

 between these tsvo sulci, there is a narrow carina. The inner 

 sulcus and carina do not occur in the typical species of the genus, 

 but the carina is distinct in E. nigra. 



Eudalia obliquiceps, n.sp. 



Elongate, subconvex. Head convex, hardly impressed across 

 base : prothorax narrow^ not ampliate behind anterior margin, 

 punctate; lateral borders well-developed; pro-episterna a little 

 rounded and visible from above : elytra wide, lightly convex, 



