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

 H. V\^. Batks, F.L.S. 



The following descriptions ai-e founded upon the collections 

 recently received in England from Mr. Simson and Mr. Atkinson, 

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

 ous 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. 



Percosoma sulcipenne. 



Niger, nitidus ; occipite transversim grosse puuctiito : thorace 

 cordate, 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 way, and the sides 

 parallel for a short distance preceding the nearly rectangidar 

 hind angles ; the depressed part is rugulose, and the sides have a 

 row of punctm-es bearing long sette. The elytra are striated 

 throughout, tlie three stri^ 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 occij)ut 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 tumour nearly as large as the eye itself. 



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



Lijclinus strangulatus. 



Elongato-ovatus, supra sub-planatus, nigerrimus politus : 

 capite mox pone oculos sulco profundo Itevi impresso ; foveis 



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CiSTULA EnTOMOLOGICA, 



September 25th, 1S78, 



