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New genera and species of Carabid.e from Tasmania ; hj 



n. w. batks, f.l.s. 



The following descriptions are founded npon the collections 

 recently received in England from ]\lr. Simson and Mr. Atkinson, 

 who have made large additions to the knowledge of the Coleopter- 

 ons Fauna of Tasmania, the former in the Southern and Central 

 districts of the Island, and the latter in the North. Mr. Alexander 

 Fry lent me for the occasion, a fine series of species sent by Mr. 

 Simson, and kindly presented me with examples of most of them. 



Fercosoma, sitlcipenne. 



Niger, nitidus ; occipite transversim grosse puuctato : thorace 

 cordato, antice minus rotundato-dilatato, angulis posticis subrec- 

 tis : elytris oblongo-ovatis, humeris distinctis ibique et lateribus 

 margine explanato-incrassato, post medium leviter ampliatis, 

 apicem versim gradatim attenuatis ; supra striatis, striis versus 

 marginem et apicem latis, granulato-opacis. Long. 26-30 

 mm. $ ,^ . 



Similar in general form to P. carenoides (White), but thorax 

 much narrower, being less dilated immediately after the anterior 

 angles ; the base is depressed in the same Avay, and the sides 

 parallel for a short distance preceding the nearly rectangular 

 hind angles ; the depressed part is rugulose, and the sides ha\'e a 

 roAv of punctures bearing long setai. The elytra aie striated 

 throughout, the three stride nearest the suture being finely impres- 

 sed, the others deeper and broader, and towards the apex all 

 greatly widened and minutely granulate-opaque. • The fifth stria, 

 near the base, has three large setiferous punctures. The head is 

 similar in form to that of P. carenoides, but the occiput bears a 

 transverse row of three large setiferous punctures on each side, 

 and the sulcus near the eyes is deeper ; the orbit behind the eyes 

 forms a tuniotu' nearly as lai'ge as the eye itself. 



Northern Tasmania (Atkinson). Coll. H. W. Bates. 



LycJmus stra)u/iilatns. 



Elongato-ovatus, supra su1j-planatus, nigerrimus jiolitus : 

 capite inox pone oculos sulco prolundo Lijvi imprcsso ; foveis 



C C 

 CiSTUi.A Entomologica, 

 September 25th, 1878, 



