On the ScaritidcB of Neiv Hollatid, by William MacLeay, 

 Junr., Esq., M.L.A. 



[Read 5th January, 1863.] 



The Scaritida3 of New Holland have been made the subject of an 

 interesting Paper, by Mr. Westwood, in the first volume of his 

 "Arcana Entomologica," page 81, to which Paper he has added 

 considerably in pages 157 and 192 of the same work, and in vol. 

 5, Trans. Ent. Soc, page 202. 



I propose in the following Paper to describe all the new 

 species of the family which I have been enabled to procure, and at 

 the same time, for the convenience of the Student, to recapitulate, 

 and give the specific descriptions of all those previously known. 



The Australian genera of the Family may be thus divided : — 



T,, .„ . ,, C Carenum, I?o«e^Zi. 



MaxillfB amce ootusce \ 



C Scaraphites, MaoLeaij. 



Scarites, Fah. 



Maxillce aplce acute arcuate... \ Gnathoxys, Westwood. 



Ceratoglossa, mild. 

 Clivina, Latr. 



Genus Carenum, Bonelli. (Observ. Entomol. 2nd part, p. 47.) 



Arnidius, Leach, Boisd. Eutoma, Newm. 



This genus is the most numerous in species of the family, 

 and, indeed, may be considered typical of the Australian Scaritidai. 

 It is readily distinguishable from the other genera by the en- 

 larged triangular form of the terminal joint of the labial palpi, 

 and the shortness of the basal joint of the antennae. I propose 

 to divide the genus into two gToups, those with two teeth on 

 the fore tibitx3 and those with three. 



