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here next year, as seems not unlikely, I hope to be able to have a 

 similar trip a little earlier in the season. On the 12th, at noon, I 

 resumed my trip up the line to a place called " Union Reefs," about 

 140 miles up, where I had a kind invitation from the manager of some 

 gold (quartz) mines. Arrived there at 4.20, after a somewhat tedious 

 journey through a very arid country, timbered with the usual Euca- 

 li/ptus, &c. (no place anywhere to compare with the one which I had 

 just left), I had just time to look over the operations for crushing the 

 quartz and extracting the gold by means of mercury (which operations 

 are very interesting) before it was dark, and being very tired, turned 

 in early. Next morning, as I had to start back to Port Darwin at 

 8.20, I roused out at 6 a.m. (sunrise), and got an hour's collecting 

 before breakfast ; the country was miserably arid, but I got one or 

 two nice fresh Garabidce, Heteromera, weevils, &c., but mostly single 

 specimens. It was a long and very hot ride back to Port Darwin, 

 where I arrived at 4.30 p.m., but I greatly enjoyed the few days out 

 of the ship, the results of which have kept me busy ever since. Have 

 been out once or twice collecting since my return, and keep finding a 

 few additions each time; Pcecilus? sp. ? now sv>'arms under nearly 

 every big log or stone, but you never see one anywhere else ; one or 

 two other nice Carahidce, &c., turn up occasionally with it. 



H.M.S. " Penguin," Port Darwin : 

 August \1th, 1890. 



NOTE ON THREE AUSTRALIAN CARABIDJE. 

 BY H. W. BATES F.B.S. 



The three interesting species here mentioned formed part of a 

 small series of Australian species sent to me for determination, some 

 time ago, by Mr. A. S. Olliff, of Sydney. The new genus of the Broscus 

 group is interesting as being closely allied to a genus, Lt/chnus, hitherto 

 known only from Tasmania, and as adding another generic form to 

 the numerous and varied Australasian series of this sub-family. 



EURYLYCimtJS, nov. ffcn., suh-iam. BROSCIN.E. 

 Of shorter form than the typical BroscincB, the elytra especially briefly oblong- 

 ovate. Head small, strongly sulcate-constrictcd immediately behind the prominent 

 eyes ; frontal furrows deep, lateral, and the groove and ridge close to the eyo and 

 over the base of the antenna; sharply developed. Antenna3 short, joints 4 — 11 ovate, 

 contracted at their bases, joints 1 — 4 (except apex of tlic 4th) glabrous. Terminal 



