310 The Insect Fauna of Van Diemen^s Land. 



only insect ont of the entire group of Scaritides : it is 

 probable^ however^ that the genus Caremim i*), hitherto 

 thought peculiar to New Holland^ but analogous to the 

 North American genus Pasimaclms, is to be found in Van 

 Diemen's Land. And it is scarcely to be supposed that the 

 genera Dijsclnrms and Clivina, especially the latter^ dis- 

 tributed everywhere else^ are wanting here. 



The group of JLarpalhuB presents in New Holland a 

 peculiar genus^ — Promecoderus, of which Van Diemen*s 

 Land possesses a series of species (f). Mr. Schayer has, 

 however, forwarded but one : it agrees with Pr, Brunni- 

 cornis Dej. {X), except that it is somewhat smaller. Of 

 Harpahis the collection contains ZT. Australaslce^ Bej. ([[), 

 and three new species. 



Six out of the seven species of the group o^^ PterosticIiincB 

 belong to the genus PterosticJms (§), (Feronia, Dej.^, 

 and in this to the division Pcecilus and Argutor) that is, 

 according to Dejean's classification. To the first belong 

 P. chalyheus (^) P. s^Jiodroides, (**) and two new species : to 

 the second P.Aiistralis (tt);r and one new species. Id the 

 seventh species I recognised Carahus curtiis, Fab,, which I 

 had seen in the Kiel Museum, but of whose proper classi- 

 fication I had so long been doubtful. Its habitat, colour, 

 and the formation of the feet seemed to place it among the 



(*) I imagine that Arnidius Leaeh. is synonymous witli Carenum, though 

 they are separated by Boisduval (Faun, de I'Ocean., pp. 23, 24.) 



(f) Gudrin (Eev. Zool., 1841, p. 188) enumerates three new species from 

 Van Piemen's Land, viz., Pr. gihhosus, degener., suhdepressus . 



{%) Spec. Gen. des Col., IV., 28, 1. Boisduval (Faun, de I'Oeean,, p. 39) 

 assigns Port Jackson, Brulle (Hist. Nat. des Ins., IV., p. 448) Eangaroo Island, 

 as the place of its discovery. 



(II) Spec. G6n. des Col., IV., 386, 158. Boisd., Faun, de I'Ocean., 4A, 7. 



(§) Compare " My Beetles in the Brandenb. M.," I., p. 67. 



(*![) Feronia (Poeoilus) clialybea, Dej., Spec. Gki. des Col., III., 234, 26. 



(**) Feronia (Faecihis) sphodroides, Dej., (in the same), 236, 27. 



(If) Feronia (Argutor) Aicstratis, Dej., (in the same), 262,55. 



