436 CARABID^ FROM TROPICAL AUSTRALIA. 



obliquels' impressed on each side near antennae: eyes with orbits 

 reniform, eyes convex, orbits protuberant behind eyes, less than 

 half the size of eyes. Prothorax hardly broader than long 

 (l-2x 1'25 mm.); pronotiim opaque, transversely striolate, closely 

 punctulate: apex truncate-emarginate; anterior angles obtuse, 

 advanced: sides lightly arcuate, subsinuate before basal angles; 

 base rounded in middle, roundly sinuate on each side: basal 

 angles marked, summit obtuse, unisetigerous: border narrow 

 anteriorly, raised at basal angles : median line well-marked, 

 stronger and reaching base posteriorly. Elytra much wider than 

 prothorax (3-2 x2'25 mm.), widest rather l^ehind middle, hardly 

 narrowed to base: base emarginate, widely rounded at shoulders: 

 apex a little roundly truncate, lightly subsinuate on each side, 

 lateral margin explanate (formed by the subdepressed ninth 

 interstice and wide depressed marginal channel). Tarsi with 

 claws denticulate on basal half: in ^J, anterior without squamules 

 beneath joints 1-4. Length, 6; breadth, 2-25 mm. 



Z/^a6.— Queensland : Cooktown District. Seveial specimens 

 occurred to me under leaves and debris in dry situations in the 

 open Eucalyptus-forest at King's Plains Station, south-west from 

 Cooktown, in July. 



A. hinneralis is congeneric with Cyinindis stiginula Chaud.. 

 (India and New Caledonia) on which Fauvel founded the f,'enus 

 Uvea, but I cannot differentiate it generically from A^iomofanis: 

 and T think, therefore, that Uvea (I have examined U. stigtmila 

 from India) is not more than, at most, a subgenus of Anomotarus. 

 Chaudoir had intended to formulate a group Dromiides, to which 

 he would have referred his Cymiixiis atigmnla,* but to me it 

 seems truly a member of the group Cy mind ides 

 Anomotauus ruficornis, n.sp. 



Oval, depressed. Prothorax subcordate: elytra obovate, striate 

 (striae finely crenulate); interstices hardly convex, first wide at 

 base and with a short, well-marked striole : tarsi with claws 

 .serrate. Black, elytra brown; undersurface piceous; metasternum, 

 legs, and antennae testaceous. 



Head convex, front decidedly obliquely impressed on each 



'' Cf. Bull. Soc. Imp. Nat. Mosc, 187'), p.61. 



