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This species is apparently very local. I have hitherto met 

 with it in only one comer of my stable yard — a single specimen 

 in 1860, and 8 or 10 in 1862. (I have since captured a single 

 specimen at East Maitland, January, 1863.) 

 Batrisus. Aube 

 Sp. 13. 7>. Australis. Erichson. 

 Oblongus, castaneus, fulvo-pubescens ; vertice carinato ; thorace 

 basi utrinque dentato et medio impresso ; elytris pedibus- 

 que rufis. 

 Long. 1| lin. Tasmania. 

 Antennae, as long as the head and thorax ; head smooth 

 in front, somewhat furrowed, and marked at the base with 

 impressions on both sides, the vertex somewhat elevated, and 

 acutely carinated. Thorax oblong sub-cylindrical, the sides 

 before tlie middle rotund-dilated, slightly margined at the base, 

 an impression in the middle and one on each side. The lateral 

 impressions terminate in a kind of carination, like a tooth. 

 Erichson Archiv. fur Natur. Geschichte, vol. 8., p. 243. 



Sp. 14. B. angulcdus. Westwood. 

 Totus obscure castaneo-rufus, vix nitidus punctatissimus, longe 

 setosus ; oculis nigris ; antennarum articulis simplicibus ; 

 palporum maxillarium articulis 3, 3, & 4 globoso- 

 iuflatis ; prothorace sub-hexagono fossula abbreviata media ; 

 tibiis intermediis in mare intus spina subapicali arraatis. 

 Long. Corp. lin. 1. Ants' nests, Melbourne. 

 I), angvlahis. Westwood. Loc. cit. (PI. XVI., tig. 6 mas., 



7 fern.) 

 Maxillary palpi, with second, third, and fourth joints globose- 

 inflnted at the apex, the last joint having a minute point on the 

 apex. Prothorax oblong sub-hexagonal, having three deep oval 

 impressions on the surface towards the base, 



Sp. 15. B. harhatus. R. L. King (fig. 6 a.) 

 Totus ferruginous vix nitidus ; prothorace irregulariter punc- 

 tato, truncato-i'otundato, linea longitudinali et foveolis 2""* 

 latcralibus linea curvata conjunctis instructo ; elytris stria 

 suturali et 2*""^ dimidiatis discoidalibus ornatis. 

 Long. -^%- poll. 

 Parramatta, under stones, on fences at sunset. 



