202 Mr. J. O. Westwood's Descriptions 



XXXVIII. Descriptions of some new Exotic Coleoptera. 

 By J. O. Westwood, F.L.S., &c. 



[Read 5th March and 2nd April, 1849.] 



Family CARABID^. 



Sub-family Scaritides. 



Genus Carenum, Bonelli. 



The two Australian species of this genus, described below, are 

 supplemental to a monograph on the Australian Scaritides, pub- 

 lished by me in the first volume of the " Arcana Entomologica." 



Carenum viridipenne, Westw. 



C. prothorace subquadrato, angulis posticis rotundatis ; nigrum, 

 Iseve. nitidum, prothoracis lateribus viridi tenue marginatis ; 

 elytris viridibus, punctis duobus prope basin alterisque duo- 

 bus ante apicem notatis ; tibiis anticis extus bidentatis. 



Long. Corp. lin. 8. 



Habitat in Nova Hollandia ad littora fluvii Mundarra dicti. 



In Mus. Dom. F. Bond. 



Careno smaragdulo, Hope (Westw. Arc. Ent. vol. i. pi. 21, fig. 

 4),aflfine, sed minus, angustius, punctis 4 elytrorum distinctum. 

 Caput mediocre nigrum, inter oculos lineis duabus paullo cur- 

 vatis impressis, antice et postice furcatis, spatio intermedio 

 convexo, puncto impresso intus furcam anticam tuberculoque 

 utrinque ad latera labri transversi denticulati, punctisque 

 duobus aliis utrinque ad marginem internum oculorum. 

 Protborax subquadratus, longitudine e quinta parte lalior, 

 angulis anticis obtusis, posticis rotundatis ; tenue margi- 

 natus, disco linea tenui media longitudinale impresso, alte- 

 raque transversa paullo ante marginem posticum, impres- 

 sioneque parva utrinque versus eundem marginem. Elytra 

 ovalia, thoracis latitudine, ad costam depressa, glabra, laete 

 viridescentia, disci medio nigro ; punctis duobus setigeris 

 prope humeros alterisque duobus pone medium ; lateribus 

 marginatis serieque punctorum intra marginem. Pedes 

 breves, robusti ; tibiis anticis extus bidentatis, latere interno 

 sub dente priori inermi. 



