20 
FURTHER NOTES ON AUSTRALIAN COLEOPTERA, 
WITH DESCRIPTIONS OF NEW GENERA AND 
SPECIES. 
By the Rev. T. Buacksurn, B.A. 
[Read May 3, 1892.] 
x. 
The species described in the following pages are a somewhat 
miscellaneous aggregate, some of them having been collected by 
myself, and others having come into my hands for description 
from various sources. Among the most interesting are a number 
of Coccinellide, collected by Mr. A. Koebele, agent of the United 
States Department of Agriculture, during a tour which that 
gentleman has been making with a view of investigating the 
depredations of that family on scales and other enemies of plant- 
life. Mr. Koebele has placed in my hands for determination the 
species that he has collected, among which are a considerable 
number of novelties, as will be seen on reference to the following 
pages. 
CARABIDA. 
TACHYS. 
I hesitate a little in referring the following species to this 
genus on account of the sutural stria not being recurved, but it 
presents all the other distinctive features of Tachys, and is so 
extremely like some species (¢.g., 7’. Plindersi, Blackb.) that have 
the recurved stria that I hardly think it can rightly be regarded 
as a new generic form on that character alone. 
T. Yarrensis, sp. nov. Modice elongatus; minus convexus ; 
nitidus ; ferrugineus, capite infuscato; antennis sat elongatis, 
submoniliformibus; prothorace transverso, canaliculato, 
postice minus angustato, lateribus antice sat fortiter 
rotundatis postice vix sinuatis, angulis posticis rectis ; 
elytris substriatis, striis sat fortiter punctulatis, sculptura 
nec apicem nec latera versus obsoleta; stria recurva nulla. 
Long., 1 1. (vix); lat., 81. 
At once distinguishable from its allies by the elytral sculpture 
not becoming obsolete towards the sides and apex, and by the 
absence of a recurved stria. 
Victoria ; Upper Yarra ; sent by C. French, Esq. 
