Carabidse frv7n Tasmania. 321 



Late cordatis (in tarsis intei-m'Bdii.s angustiovlbus), plautis deuse 

 squami-pilosis. 



Closely allied to Lecanomerus (^Chaud.) from which it differs 

 only in the lesser dilatation of the four anterior $ tarsi, and in the 

 more elongate and flatter body, which gives the species quite a 

 different facies. In Lecanomerus the first joint of the dilated 

 male tarsi is not expanded Hke the 2-4th; but it is much shorter 

 and less linear than in Thenarotes. The Lecanomeri are shorter, 

 more ovate and convex. Both genera are numerous in species 

 in Australia, Lecanomerus extending also to New Zealand. 

 Lecanomerus marginatus (Eeed) of Chili, belongs to Thenarotes 

 rather than to Lecanoinerus. 



Thenarotes Tasmanicus. 



Bradycello Verhasci (Dufts) similis ; at paullo magis elongatus 

 et depressus. Rufo-testaceus, nitidus, antennis, palpis et pedibus 

 pallidioribus ; elytris utrinque plaga elongata post medium nigra 

 subiridescenti : thorace cordato-(|uadrato, autice longe rotundato, 

 postice paullo ante basin subsiuuatim angustato, angulis posticis 

 obtusis, margine basaU utrinque obliquo, foveis basalilnis latis 

 grosse punctatis : elytris oblongis, fortiter striatis, absque striola 

 scuteUari, uiterstiitis convexis, tertio pone medivim unipunctato. 

 Long. 4|~5 mm. 



South or Central Tasmania (Simsou). In Mr. Janson's col- 

 lection and my own. 



Oopterus Tasmanicus. 



Drimostoma? Tasmanica, Castelnau, Notes ou Austr. Col., Tr. 

 Roy. Soc. Vict, ii, vol. 8, p. 199. 



A smaU glossy insect, taken by Mr. Simson, with ovate, 

 almost gibbous elytra, obsoletely striated, agrees very well with 

 Castelnau's description. It has a pubescent third antennal joint 

 and acuminate palpi, agreeing in these and in others respects 

 with the genus Oopterus. The mandibles are long and slender, 

 the forehead has two long straight furrows, and the thorax is 

 deeply and broadly impressed on each side of the base, with a 

 carina near the hind angle. The elytra at the apex have a 

 strongly raised carina in the position of the seventh interstice, 

 on the umer side of which is the trace of a recurved striole 

 connected along the apex with the sutm-al stria. The second 

 antennal joint is nearly as Icng as the third. 



