Carabidaj fram Tasmania, 325 



turn, orbitu post-oculari rotundato-augustato, collo distiucto. 

 Ligula bisetosa. Palpi labiales $ securiformes, modice dilatati. 

 Mentum sinri maxime deutato. Anteuna3 articulo 3io glabro. 

 Thorax margine postico late sed breviter lobato. Elytra elougata 

 a])ice valde obtusa, vix truucata ; iuterstitiis sparsim punctu- 

 latis, tertio bipuuctato. Tarsi supra glabri, depressi, articulo 

 4to breviter emargiuato, 5to basin versus baud gradatim atten- 

 uato ; ungues fortiter denticulataj ; $ anteriores articulis tribus, 

 intermedii articulis duobus, subtus biserif-tim squamulatis. 



A genus formed for the rcceptioi^ of Plodtionuft aiistralis 

 (Ericbson) ; which Baron Chaudoir, ajiparently not having seen 

 in nt\tu7Xt, placed doubtfully as a synonym to his Xanthoplura 

 picipennis ; but which has none of the distinctive characters of 

 the group to which Xanthophcea belongs ; the ligula being 

 bisetose, and the tarsi glabrous above &c. The position of the 

 genus seems to be near the American group Pinacodtra, and 

 Erichson's species has, in fact, great resemblance to P. puucti- 

 gcra. The tarsi are, however, fattened and l)roadencd as 

 in Plochiomis pallens, and the form of the head is that of 

 Xanthophwa. 



Diabaticus aiistralis. 



Plochionus id., Erichson, Beitr., Insectenfauna v. Vandiem., 

 p. 124. 



South or Central Tasmania (Simson). Coll. A. Fry and 

 H. W. Bates. 



In addition to the above, the foUoAving previously descri1)cd 

 species have been sent to England by Messrs. Simson and 

 Atkinson : — 



Scaraphites Macleayi, Westw. 



Clivina a species closely allied to CI. AnstraJasia' 



(Boh.), probably a small form of it. 

 Pro7)iecoderus brnnnicoims, Dej. 



,, modestus, Castelu. 



,, ovicvllis, Casteln. 



,, gibhosus, Gi'ay. 



Percosoma careno'ides, White. 

 Notonomns politulns, Chaud. 



,, chalyhens, Dej. 



Ceneus coracivvs, Erichs. 



