-[•28 CARABlD.?: FROM 'iMfOPK'AT. AUSTliALlA^ 



a wide subdepressed space along sides forming a wide concavity 

 posteriorly: apex lightly emarginate; anterior angles not marked 

 or protuberant: sides ampliate and I'ounded 'interiorly, strongly 

 sinuate posteriorly, straight before basal angles: base truncate, 

 sloping obliquely forward on each side to angles, these marked 

 but obtuse: lateral channel wide, border narrow, slightly retlexed; 

 median line deep. Elytra depressed, widest behind middle 

 (5x3-6 mm.): sides lightly rounded: apex truncate: external 

 angles well-marked, obtuse at summit: interstices 2-7 finely and 

 sparsely punctate, eighth and ninth coarsely punctate: lateral 

 channel wide, punctate. Length, 9; l)readth, 3"6mm. 



llab. — -Northern Territory: Port Darwin (Dodd). Two speci- 

 mens in Coll. Sloane. 



Allied to X. i-ariahilra Macl., from which it differs by head 

 and disc of prothorax not punctate; puncturation of elytral 

 interstices much finer; head more elongate, tumid behind eyes, 

 posterior supraorbital seta in a depression, eyes a little less pro- 

 minent ; prothorax longer, narrower, apex less emarginate, 

 anterior angles nearer sides of head, sides less strongly rounded 

 anteriorly, less strongly sinuate posteriorly, hardly the least 

 out-turned to basal angles, these not acute and prominent: elytra 

 with marginal channel narrow, external angles more strongly 

 marked, ifcc 



Xanthophcea quadricollis, n.sp. 



9. Elongate. Prothorax depressed, subquadrate, hardly nar- 

 rowed to base; base truncate, wider than apex : elytra truncate- 

 oval, striate: interstices depressed near suture, lightly convex 

 near sides, first interstice with an elongate striole at ba^c, thiid 

 Ijipunctate : apex of abdomen with four or five setje on each 

 side. Brownish-red; elytra a little darker than liead and pro 

 thorax; undersurface of body and femora testaceous, of head and 

 prothorax reddish. 



Head large (1"7 mm. across eyes), lightly oblique behind eyes; 

 front depressed, lightly bi-impressed; antennae with three basal 

 joints glabrous. Prothorax hardly wider than head ( 1 -7 x 1 9 

 mm.), Isevigate; apex truncate; anterior angles rounded, not 



