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Further Notes on Australian Coleoptera, 

 WITH Descriptions of New Genera ani> 

 Species, 



By the Rev. T. Blackburx, B.A. 



[Read April 7, 1891.] 



IX. 



CARABID.E. 



HYPHARPAX. 



H. Sloanei, sp. nov. Minus eloiigatus ; viridi-a3neus ; antennis 

 (his apicem versus vix infuscatis), palpis, mandibulis (his 

 basi apiceque piceis), i^ecb'bus (femoribus leviter infuscatis), 

 elytrorum margine t^iui, et abdominis apice, testaceis ; pro- 

 thorace fortiter transverse, postice quam antice vix latiori, 

 postice utrinque foveolato, foveolis vix perspicue jDunctulatis, 

 lateribus niodice rotundatis, angulis posticis obtusis vix 

 rotundatis, latitudine majori vix ante medium posita ; 

 elytris fortiter striatis, interstitiis subconvexis postice haud 

 magis elevatis, 3° prope apicem puncto setifero instructo. 

 Maris tarsis anterioribus 4 fortiter dilatatis, intermediorum ar- 

 ticulo 1 ° subtus simplici ; femoribus posticis subtus late 

 angulatis (vix dentatis) ; tibiis posticis leviter arcuatis. 

 Long, 3 1. ; lat. 1-^-^ 1. 

 From the other species of Hypliarpax^ not greatly larger than 

 it, the present species may be known by the combination of the 

 following characters :— Legs entirely pallid (the femora only a 

 little brownish), elytra strongly striated (almost as strongly as in 

 H. ranula^ Cast.) ; anterior 4 tarsi of male very strongly dilated 

 (about as strongly as in H. inornatus^ Germ.); posterior femora 

 of male only widely and obtusely angulated in place of the strong- 

 tooth found in //. inornatus, vilis, &c. ; posterior til:>ia' of male 

 regularly and only slightly curved, not bent inwards strongly 

 near the apex. Perhaps the strong striation of the elytra is the 

 best single cliaracter. The prothorax is almost as in //. inornatus, 

 Germ., as also are the hind tarsi. 



KS. Wales ; taken near Mulwala by Mr. T. G. Slo.-me. 



DICROCHILE. 



D. ventrcdis, sp. nov. Sat elongata ; minus convexa ; sat nitida 

 (mas) vel subopaca (f emina) ; nigra vix ienescens ; antennis 

 palpis tarsisque plus minus picescentibus ; prothorace quam 



