430 CARABID.E FROM TROPICAL AU.STRALIA, 



prominent, narrow, obtuse: sides not ampliate behind anterior 

 angles, subangulate at anterior tliird. almost straight on anterior 

 two-thirds, a little out-turned to basal angles: base truncate: 

 basal angles strongly marked, rectangular (obtuse at summit): 

 lateral margin wide, depressed, a little concave near base. Elytra 

 Itevigate, about twice as wide as prothorax (5 x •2'7 mm.), rather 

 depressed, declivous to sides; apex with outer angles rounded: 

 apical truncature lightly bisinuate: stritv simple. Length, 8-95: 

 breadth, 2*7 mm. 



//a6.— Queensland : Kuranda (Dodd). Four specimens re 

 ceived from Mr. F. P. Dodd. Type in Coll. Sloane. 



This species has the prothorax proportionately narrower than 

 anv other, and actually wider across the base than anywhere 

 else, characters which difierentiate it from all its congeners. It 

 mav be noted that the slightly out-turned basal angles are 

 more prominent in ^ than in 9. It resembles X. quadricoUis 

 SI., but can be readily distinguished by 9 with only two (not 

 four or five) setae on each side of apex of abdomen; the prothorax 

 is somewhat similar in shape, but less narrowed to apex, and 

 with posterior angles more prominent and more sharply marked, 



ttc. 



Xanthophcea APicALis, n.sp. 



(J. Elongate, convex. Head large : prothorax truncate cor- 

 date, lightly convex, widest before middle, decidedly narrowed 

 to base; apex and base of equal width: lateral margins narrow : 

 elytra truncate oval, punctate- striate; interstices depressed, Hrst 

 interstice with a faintly marked elongate striole at base, third 

 unipunctate about apical fourth : apex of abdomen unipunctate 

 on each side : tarsi with upper surface glabrous (not more than 

 one or two sette on upper side of each joint). Head and pro 

 thorax reddish; elytra piceous with apical third dull red; abdo- 

 men reddish; femora and mouth-parts testaceous; antennae ferru- 

 ginous, two basal joints testaceous. 



Head wider than prothorax (1*6 mm. across eyes), Isevigate, 

 obliquely narrowed behind eyes, transversely impressed behind 

 orbits; front decidedly impressed on each side; eyes convex, 

 prominent; antennae with three basal joints glabrous. Prothorax 



