CONTRIBUTIONS TOWARDS A KNOWLEDGE OF THE 

 COLEOPTERA OF AUSTRALIA. 



By a. Sidney Olliff, 

 Assistant Zoologist, Australian Museum. 



No. I. — New Species of CARABiDiE. 



Lacordairia terrena, sp. n. 



Black, shining, somewhat depressed ; prothorax impunctate, 

 slightly constricted behind, with a deeply impressed median line, 

 the margins I'eflexed ; elytra moderately strongly striate, the 

 interstices rather narrow, flat and impunctate. 



Head narrow, impunctate. Antennae moderately long, the first 

 three joints pitchy, the following ones dark reddish testaceous, 

 the basal joint rather long, the second much shorter, the third 

 somewhat longer, the following joints of about equal length, 

 covered with fine yellow pubescence. Prothorax slightly trans- 

 verse, the anterior angles rounded, the basal fovese well marked. 

 Elytra moderately broad, slightly convex, with narrow reflexed 

 margins, a minute fovea on the second stria, just before the 

 middle. Underside black, with a greenish tinge, shining, 

 impunctate. Legs black, the trochanters, tips of the tibiae and 

 tarsi reddish testaceous. Length, 5 mm. 



Mount Kosciusko, New South Wales (5700 feet). 



A single specimen, which I conclude from its broad anterior 

 tarsi to be a male, was obtained by Mr. Edward Meyrick in 

 January last, near the summit of Mount Kosciusko. The species 



