BY THOMAS G. SLOANB. 121 



G. nitescens has the fcacies of C. cfjanipeune, indexed margin of 

 elytra similar, prothorax (3-3 x 4*4 mm.) with the lateral setiger- 

 ous punctures on each side as in 0. (inthracinum, MacL, elytra 

 (6-5 X 4-7 mm.) bipunctate towards apex. Length 14 mm. 



C. ct/anijjenue is probably a form of C. anthracinum, Macl.f 

 It will be seen from the note given above that, in Macleay's note 

 following his Latin diagnosis of C. iiitescens, the statement that 

 *' The thorax is as long as broad " is not borne out b}^ actual 

 measurement, and that it is evidently b}' an error that the width is 

 given as " 2 lines." 



Carenum bonellii, Westwood. 



C. cyaneum, Bonelli, Mem. Acad. Turin, 1813, p. 479; C. hojiellii, 

 Westw., Arcan. Ent. 1842, i. p. 83; C. vh^idipeyme, Westw., Trans. 

 Ent. Soc. 1849, v. p. 202; C. scituhim, Mac!., Trans. Ent. Soc. 

 N. S. Wales, 1863, i. p. 144; C. zvestwoodi, Casteln., Trans. Roy. 

 Soc. Vict. 1868, viii. p. 136; C. chaudoiri, MacL, Trans. Ent. Soc. 

 N. S. Wales, 1869, ii. p.63. 



This is the type-species of Carenum on which Bonelli founded 

 the genus; he took it to be Scarites ci/aneus, Fabr., in which he 

 was wrong, as was shown by Westwood, who named it C. honeUii;X 

 however, if Bonelli gave a specific as well as a generic diagnosis 

 of his Carenum cyaneum, the name should stand, Scarites cyaneus, 

 Fabr., being now referred to the genus Laccoscaplius. I have 

 not seen Bonelli's paper, so cannot settle this point. All the 

 synonymy given above has been previously recorded except that 

 of C. chaudoiri^ the type of which (in the Macleay Museum) I 

 have examined without being able to differentiate it from C. 

 bonellii. 



" Vide these Proceedings, xxv. 1900, p. 368. 



t Vide Blackburn, Trans. Hoy. Soc. S. Aust. x. 1887, p. 58; and Sloane, 

 these Proceedings, xxv. 1900, p. 379. 



Ij: Brulle also figured this species and made some notes on it {vide White, 

 an Grey's Travels, ii. p. 457), and m Masters' Catalogue the reference is "C. 

 bonellii, Brulle, Hist. Nat. v. p.63"; this reference is correct, but it is an 

 error to attribute the name C, bondlii to Brulle. 



