BY THOMAS G. SLOANE. 625 



Chl.enioidius herbackus, Chaudoir. 



Bull. Mosc, 1865, ii., p. Ill; Ann. Mus. Civ. Genov., vi., p. 600, 

 1874 : Feronia (Poecilus) resplendens, Casteln., Trans. Roy. Soc. 

 Vict., viii., p. 217, 1868 : Pcecilus chlcenioides, Macl., Proc. Linn. 

 Soc. N.S.W., (2) iii., p. 476, 1888. 



After examining the type of P. chkenioides in the Macleay 

 Museum, and comparing it with C. herbaceiis, I found no difference. 



ffab. — Australia, widely distributed. 



Genus Loxandrus. 

 Table of Australian Species knoiun to me. 



i. Eyes small, not prominent, widely separated from buccal fissure beneath. 

 Apterous, 



a. Black L. micans, Blkh. 



aa. Reddish-brown L. hrunneiis, SI. 



ii. Eyes large, prominent, not distant from buccal fissure beneath. Winged. 



b. Prothorax wholly leevigate. 



c. Prothorax with lateral border narrow, not wide at posterior angles or 



bearing posterior marginal seta L. australiensis, SI. 



cc. Prothorax with lateral border wide posteriorly and bearing the pos- 

 terior marginal seta at basal angles. (Lateral channel wide and 

 reaching base). 



d. Form elongate; prothorax with base and apex of equal width 



L. longiformis, SI. 



dd. Form oval; prothorax much wider across I L. quadricollis, S\. 



base than apex f L. subiridescens, Macl. 



bb. Prothorax with base punctate in and near lateral basal impressions. 



T, ,, T U4.1 J J -J ( L. rufilabris, Casteln, 



e. Prothorax lightly rounded on sides \ ^ ' 



( L. hevigatus, Macl. 



ee. Prothorax strongly rounded on sides (base very wide) 



L. amplicollis, SI. 



The species I have not identified are L. gagatinus,"^' Casteln., 

 L. crenulatus, MacL,t and L. IcevicoUis, Blkb. 



■^^ For a note on L. gagatinus, see notes on L. subiridescens, postea (p,628); 

 the other two species I pass over for the present, 



t I have seen the type of Pterostichus crenulatus, Macl. , and have noted 

 that it is a species of Loxandrus, 



