122 REVISIONAL NOTES ON AUSTRALIAN CAIIAIUDJ:, TI., 



Carenum hrisbanense, Castelnaii. 



Trans. Roy. Soc. Vict. 18G^, viii. p.l33; C. opacuiu, MacL, 

 Trans. Ent. Soc. N. S. Wales, 1869, ii. p.63. 



I have compared the type-specimen of C. opacum, Mac!., in the 

 Macleay Museum, with a specimen of C. brisbanense, Casteln., 

 and consider them the same species. 



J{ah. — Q. : Brisbane {^fide Castelnau) — N.S.W. : Richmond 

 River (WoUongbar; Froggatt), Clarence River {^fide Macleay). 



Carenum simile, Macleay. 



Trans. Ent. Soc. X. S. Wales, 1865, i. p.lS2; C. irisfc, Mad, 

 I.e. 1869, ii. p.63; C. ovipeiuie, Mad, I.e. 1871, ii. p.98. 



The type-specimens of C. triste, Mad, and C. ovipenne, Mad, 

 are in the Australian ^luseum, where I have seen and compared 

 them without finding any specific differences between them, nor 

 can I find any grounds for separating them from C. simile, MacL 



Carenum coracinum, Macleay. 



Trans. Ent. Soc. N. S. Wales, 1865, i. p. 178; Carenoscaphus 

 lucidus, MacL, Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. Wales, 1887, (2) ii. p. 131. 



The type of C. eoracinum, Mad, is in the Australian Museum, 

 where I have seen it, and found it conspecific with Carenoscaphus 

 lucidus, Mad, the type of which is in the Macleay Museum. A 

 specimen from the Dawson River, Q., in my possession was com- 

 pared with both types and found the same. 



Jlab. — Q. : Dawson River (Barnard), Ipswich {^fide Macleay) 

 — N.S.W. : Nyngan (Brown). 



]\^ote. — Two specimens which seem conspecific with C. coraci- 

 num, Macl., have been given to me by Mr. H. W. Brown, who 

 took them near Nyngan, N.S.W. These specimens are in a 

 damaged condition; one has the elytra 4-punctate as in C. coraci- 

 num, and is wholly black; the other is black, with the prothorax 

 narrowly edged with purple; the elytra are purple with the disc 

 near the suture purple-black, quadripunctate (the posterior punc- 

 tures being, however, double), and, in addition, each elytron has 



