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Further Notes on Australian Coleoptera, 

 ^wiTH Descriptions of Neav Species. 



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

 VI. 



[Read October i, 1889.I 



The specimens on which the following notes and descriptions 

 are founded have been recently acquired or determined by me. 

 They are inhabitants of the colony of South Australia, with one 

 exception — a Kovius from N. S. Wales. As I had the honour of 

 reading a paper last October before this Society on the Australian 

 CoccineUidce (including some new species of Novius), it seems 

 convenient to describe the present one here, although isolated 

 from the other species to which this paper relates by its place in 

 the catalogue of Coleoptera as well as by its habitat. 



CARABID.E. 



ACROGEXYS. 



A. austr'cdis, sp. nov. Angusta ; elongata ; sat depressa ; crebre 



(capite minus crebre) sat fortiter punctulata ; supra pilis 



brevibus dense vestita ; protliorace canaliculato, quam latiori 



paullo longiori ; ely tris postice truncatis, striatis, interstitiis 



sat planis. Long., 2f 1. ; lat., a 1. 



The antenna? are about half as long as the whole insect, and are 



very robust; all the joints are pubescent, the basal one scarcely 



half as long as the head, the rest all much shorter, the second 



shortest. The maxillary palpi are large and stout, with the apical 



joint elongate-triangular, the labial very small and slender with 



the apical joint cylindric. On the head an impression runs 



obliquely forward from either eye ; these two impressions are 



connected by a transverse one in front, and are foveately deepened 



near their junction with it ; from some points of view these 



deepened portions alone are noticeable, so that the head seems 



only bifoveate in front. The prothorax scarcely difters from that 



of A. liirsuta^ Macl., excejDt in being less strongly rounded in the 



front part of its sides, so that it is a little narrower in projDortion 



to its length. The apex of the elytra is rotundate-truncate ; 



none of their interstices are carinate. The puncturation of every 



part is a little less close and less coarse than in A, hirsuta. 



Though so very much smaller than either of the previously 

 •described species of Acrogenys, I cannot doubt that this is a 



