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wMcli it represents in New Holland^ — also by a new species. 

 The rest of the species belong to well-known and widely- 

 distributed genera. Thus Plocliiomis, indigenous in America 

 and the East Indies^ (and enriched by the new species 

 CalleidaJ, generally distributed^ except in European Faunas, 

 loses its bright colouring in New Holland, where it takes 

 the colours of our Dromice : the specimens from Van 

 Diemen's Land resemble our Dromius maculatm. Lehia 

 and Ci/mindis are spread over nearly the whole earth; 

 L. corticalis, (*) L.joosticalis, (f) and C. Australis, (J) and 

 two new species of the latter genus have been forwarded : 

 these two have a peculiar small, short, compressed, and flat 

 appearance — they are found also in New Holland : according 

 to Boisduval, C. Australis is found also in Port Jackson. 



The groiTp of the lleteromorpliidcB (||) is common to 

 America and New Holland, herein presenting a point of affi- 

 nity similar to that already mentioned respecting marsupial 

 animals. New Holland contains fewer genera than America. 

 This group is remarkable for its peculiar structure, which 

 approaches, in some respects, to that of Phalacrus. Van 

 Diemen's Land has only one species Adelotopus, Hope (§), 

 which is quite new among the three genera from New 

 Holland, which we possess. 



Of the genus Scarites, the only species of New Holland, 

 Sc, Totundijiennis, Dej, (^), has been sent to us. It is the 



(*) Carabus corticalis, Fabr. Syst. El. I., 201, 174. Xiehia corticalis, Dej. 

 Spec. Gen. des Coleopt., v. 390, 60; Boisd., Faun, de I'Ocean., 18, 1. 



(f) Lehia posticalis, Guerin, Voy. de la Cocquille, Zool. 2nd, II., p. 58. 

 Atl. Ins. PI., I., f. 8. Boisd., Faun, de I'Oeean., 19, 2. 



(t)' Cymindis australis, Dejean, Spec. Gen. des Coleopt. II., 449, 25. 



(II). Hope, Coleopterist's Manual, II., p. 108. 



(§). Transact, of the Entomol. Soc. of Lond., I., p. 11. 



(^). Spec. Gen. des Col., I., 401, 35. Boisduval, Faun, de I'Ocean., p. 21. 

 Dejean assigns (though not positively) the Cape as the habitat of this species. 

 Boisduval, a. a. 0., places it in Ne;? Holland. 



