418 REVISIONAL NOTES ON AUSTRALIAN CARABIDjE, iv., 



character is also found in the Australian genus Ceratoferonia, 

 and some of the large Trigonomides from New Zealand. Both 

 species are from the mountains to the north of Gippsland, but I 

 do not know a definite locality for either. They may be dis- 

 tinguished thus : — 

 Black; prothorax not ampliate at widest part; tarsi with onychium spinu- 



lose beneath. ... 10. N. satrapus Cast. 



Prothorax and elytra bronzy; prothorax ampliate at widest part; onychium 



glabrous beneath 11. N. pluripunctatus SI. 



N. pluripunctatus SI. After seeing some specimens of this 

 species, and comparing the female with N. satrapus Cast., I con- 

 firm its validity.* One specimen has the fifth elytral interstice 

 without punctures on one side. 



The sphod?*oides-gro\ip. 



Prothorax with posterior marginal puncture not on border. 

 Elytra with basal border not dentate at humeral angles; third 

 interstice bearing more than two punctures; eighth wider than 

 ninth. Intercoxal declivity of prosternum rounded. 



This group forms part of the main body of the genus, and can 

 hardly be separated from the vialaceus-grouip, except by not 

 having the posterior marginal puncture of the pronotum on the 

 border at the basal angle. In the sphodroides-grouip, the four 

 posterior tarsi have the first joint always costate. In N. peroni, 

 N. sphodroides, N. muelleri, N. angulosus, N. politulus and N. 

 tubericaudus, there is no spinule beneath the costa; in N. Jcosci- 

 uskoanus, the intermediate tarsi have the costa spinulose beneath, 

 the posterior being non-spinulose; in N. plutus, N. tenuistriatus, 

 N. opulentus, N. metallicus, N. variicollis, N. carteri, N. arthuri, 

 and N. taylori, the first joint of the tarsi is spinulose, though 

 sometimes the costa of the posterior tarsi is not spinulose in N. 

 variicollis. 



Table of Species. 



l.(18)Pronotum with lateral channel wide and depressed near base. 



2.(ll)Prothorax truncate-cordate, hardly or not wider at base than apex. 



3.(10)Head large; interstices of elytra convex near apex (not convex at 

 apex in iV. tenuistriatus). 



♦These Proceedings, 1903, p. 602. 



