128 KEVISIONAL NOTES ON AUSTRALIAN CARAniD.K, II., 



CaKENIDIUM PURPUKATUM, 11. sp. 



^. Elongate; head large, wide across eyes (5 -3 mm.); labrum 

 short, truncate; prothorax subcordate, lobed at base, bipiinctate 

 in lateral channel; elytra flat on disc, strongly declivous to sides 

 and apex, 4-punctate ; anterior tibia^ 2-dentate. Violaceous; 

 head black, with a purple flush on sides of vertex, on lateral 

 frontal spaces, and on guise; prothorax black in middle of disc, 

 widely violaceous towards sides and base with cyaneous tints near 

 posterior angles; elytra of a uniform bright violet; under surface 

 and legs black, a slight violaceous flush on episterna of proster- 

 num and on inflexed sides of el3^tra. 



Head convex, declivous to anterior margin; front with median 

 space strongly convex, lateral spaces convex, wide, strongly 

 roundl}^ declivous before eyes; frontal sulci long, deep, diverging- 

 posteriorly; supraocular sulcus extending decidedly forward on 

 to lateral frontal spaces, but not attaining anterior margin; 

 clypeus with median part declivous, truncate and with three 

 impressions (a longitudinal sulciform impression at each side, at 

 base of intermediate tooth, and a lighter wider one in middle), 

 intermediate teeth short, obtuse, prominent; eyes prominent, 

 strongly inclosed at base; orbits concave below eyes, their post- 

 ocular parts rising from head in a sharp oblique slope; two supra- 

 orbital punctures on each side. Mandibles thick, outer side 

 abrupt towards base; right with a very large prominent irregular 

 tooth in the middle, left with a wide tooth in middle (this tooth 

 not greatly upturned, but very wide and with an obtuse promi- 

 nence at each side of apex). Prothorax broader than long (4-5 

 X 5-9 mm.), not much wider than head with e3^es, widest near 

 posterior marginal puncture, depressed along median line; sides 

 subparallel (narrowing a little forward in a very gentle oblique 

 curve); basal curve strongly sinuate on each side of basal lobe; 

 anterior margin widely emarginate; anterior angles prominent, 

 obtuse, roundly subtruncate; basal lobe roundl}^ truncate; basal 

 area defined b}^ a strong transverse line and very little depressed 

 below plane of disc; border narrow on sides, widely reflexed on each 



