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STUDIES IN AUSTRALIAN ENTOMOLOGY, 



No.xvii. New Genera and Species of CARABiDiE. 



(Pamborini, Migadopini, Broseini, Cuneipeetini, Nomiini, Ptero- 

 stiehini, Platynini, Oodini, Harpalini, and Lebiini.) 



By Thomas G. Sloane. 



(With one text-fig.) 



(Continued from, Vol. xxxv., p.4-06, 1910.) 



Subfamily CARABINE. 



Tribe Pambopini. 



Genus Pamborus. 



Pamborus elegans, n.sp. 



^.Oval, convex. Prothorax with marginal channel and lateral 

 basal impression uniting in a concavity at each posterior angle; 

 elytra with fifteen interstices, eighth interstice not catenulate 

 on disc, edge of reflexed lateral border without any serrations. 

 Black ; head with a slight viridescent flush behind occipital 

 transverse impression; prothorax margined with green; elytra 

 bronzy, with lateral margin green. 



Prothorax broader than long (6*3 x 7-8 mm.)*, wider across base 

 (6 mm.) than apex (5 mm.). Elytra convex, striae wide, strongly 

 and closely punctate; interstices narrow, costate, interrupted on 

 apical declivity, 1-11 not catenulate on disc, twelfth more or less 

 interrupted; lateral channel wide. Length 25, breadth 10 mm. 



Hah. — Queensland : Herberton District, southward from 

 Atherton (Dodd); Coll. Sloane; two specimens, $. 



This beautiful species was sent to me by Mr. F. P. Dodd, who 

 found it in the scrub eastward from Herberton in North Queens^ 

 land. It belongs to the section of the genus characterised by 



* The length here given for the prothorax is measured in the middle; 

 the length from anterior to posterior angle is 7 mm. 



