470 NEW SPECIES OF CARABID^, 



aciculate. Legs pale reddish testaceous, apical halves of the 

 femora and the tips of the tibite dusky. Length, 9 mm. ; greatest 

 width, 3^ mm. 



Mount Wellington, Tasmania (.3000 feet). 



Differs from Plagiotelum irinum, Solier (1. c. Atlas, pi. 1, fig. 3) 

 in colour and marking, in having the sides of the prothorax 

 straighter and less narrowed behind and the elytral strise rather 

 more distinct. A single specimen of this pretty species was 

 obtained by Mr. Masters from beneath the loosened bark of 

 Uucali/ptus. 



Catascopus chalydicus, sp. n. 



Elongate, metallic green, with steel-blue reflexions ; head and 

 prothorax tinged with coppery-green ; elyti"a strongly punctate- 

 striate, the fifth interstice narrow, the seventh costiform. 



Head rather broad, strongly aciculate longitudinally on each 

 side at the anterior margin, strongly and sparingly punctured on 

 the basal half; clypeus coppery, finely punctured. Prothorax 

 considerably broader than long, strongly narrowed and constricted 

 behind, finely aciculate transversely, a few irregular punctures in 

 front ; median line moderately sti'ong, impressed just behmd the 

 anterior margin and at the base ; anterior angles slightly 

 produced ; the lateral margins narrowly reflexed. Elytra rather 

 broad, about one and a half times as long as the head and 

 prothorax together, strongly punctate-striate, the punctures 

 stronger towards the sides, the interstices, except the fifth and 

 seventh, rather broad and very slightly convex ; the external 

 apical angle acute. Underside and legs dark coppeiy green. Length, 

 15 mm. ; gi-eatest width, 5h mm. 



