Carabida3 from Tasmania. 325 



turn, oi'bitu post-oculari rotundato-augustato, collo distiucto. 

 Ligula bisetosa. Palpi labiales $ securiformes, raodice dilatati. 

 Mentum simi maxime deutato. Antennae articulo 3io glabro. 

 Thorax mai-gine postico late sed breviter lobato. Elytra elougata 

 apice valde obtiisa, vix truncata ; interstitiis sparsim punctu- 

 latis, tertio bipiinctato. Tarsi supra glabri, depressi, articulo 

 4to breviter emargiuato, 5to basin versus baud gradatina atten- 

 uato ; ungues fortiter denticulatas ; $ anteriores articulis tribus, 

 intermedii articulis duobus, subtus biserif.tim squamulatis. 



A genus formed for the receptio]\ of Plochionus australis 

 (Erichson) ; which Baron Chaudoir, apparently not having seen 

 in naturd, placed doubtfully as a synonym to his Xanthophcea 

 picipennis ; but which has none of the distinctive characters of 

 the group to which XantJurphcea belongs ; the ligula being 

 bisetose, and the tarsi glabrous above &c. The position of the 

 genus seems to be near the American grou^) Pinacodera, and 

 Erichson's species has, in fact, great resemblance to P. puncti- 

 gera. The tarsi are, however, fattened and liroadencd as 

 in Plochionus pallens, and the form of the head is that of 

 Xanthop)h(xa. 



Diabaticus australis. 



Plochionus id., Erichson, Beitr., Insectenfauna v. Vandiem., 

 p. 124. 



South or Central Tasmania (Simson). Coll. A. Fry and 

 H. W. Bates. 



In addition to the above, the following previously described 

 species have been sent to England by Messrs. Simson and 

 Atkinson : — 



Scaraphites Macleayi, Westw. 



Clivina a species closely alhed to CI. Australasin; 



(Boh.), probably a small form of it, 

 Promecoderus hrunnicornis, Dej. 



,, modestus, Casteln. 



,, ovicollis, Casteln. 



„ gibbosus, Gray. 



Percosoma careno'ides, White. 

 Notvnomus politulus, Chaud. 



,, chalybcus, Dej. 



Ceneus coracimis, Erichs. 



