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FURTHER NOTES ON AUSTRALIAN COLEOPTERA, 
WITH DESCRIPTIONS OF NEW GENERA AND 
SPECIES, 
By the Rev. T. Buacksury, B.A. 
[Read April 8, 1895.] 
OVAL. 
CARABID. 
An important and very able memoir by Mr. T. G. Sloane on 
Australian Carabide appears in the recently published Part (IIL, 
1895) of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South 
Wales. Some of Mr. Sloane’s proposals—e.g., the merging of 
the Morionides and Trigonotomides in the Feroniides, and of 
Notonomus and Sarticus in Pterostichus,* while Coxandrus 
Prosopogmus, &c., are treated as genera—certainly appears to me 
on first thoughts open to much objection; neither can I acquiesce 
in Mr. Sloane’s apparent reluctance to regard sexual characters 
as of classiticatory value (illustrated by his uniting WVurus and 
Homalosoma on the ground that they do not seem to differ except 
in respect of sexual tarsal characters). As however the memoir 
was published in Sydney only a week ago, I have not had time 
to do more than hastily run my eyes over it and am not justified 
in seriously criticising it on the strength of so slight an acquaint- 
ance with its contents, nor should I have discussed it on this 
occasion if it had not been that Mr. Sloane refers here and there 
to what I have myself written concerning some Australian 
Carabide and in at least one instance seems to invite further 
information from me which this seems a good opportunity to 
furnish. 
In dealing with Leptopodus, Chaud., Mr. Sloane refers to my 
having expressed the opinion that it is scarcely distinct from 
Simodontus on the strength of its having been formed for the 
reception of Péerostichus holomelanus, Germ., but thinks that 
(although he agrees P. holomelanus is a Simodontus, yet) inas- 
much as M. Chaudoir attributed also other species to Leptopodus 
some of which stood in need of a new name holome/anus ought 
to be relegated to Simodontus and Leptopodus retained for other 
species. I think Mr. Sloane is right in this view of the matter. 
*T observe that in a footnote Mr. Sloane himself hesitates considerably 
on this point. 
