BY W. MACLEAY, F.L.S. 465 



Sub-family STOMIDES. 



71. Darodilia Castelnaui, n.sp. 



Oblong, black, very nitid ; head very smooth, with a puncture 

 on each side in front of the eyes, the labrum uiuch emarginated. 

 Thorax longer than broad, sides regularly rounded, apex and base 

 subtruncate, the latter slightly the narrower, with a very slight 

 median canal and a deep impression near each posterior angle. 

 Elytra rather wider than the thorax and about twice the length, 

 the humeral angles rounded, the sides parallel, and the apex 

 rounded, with four distinct punctate striee on each elytron, and 

 the sides smooth, without strise. 



Long. 4 lines. 



Count Castelnau founded this genus for an insect from the 

 Lachlan, which I have never seen. 



Sub-Family CRATOCERIDES. 



72. Phorticosomus Nuytsi, Casteln. 

 Mast. Cat. Col. Sp. 652. 



Sub-Family HARPALIDES. 

 Under this s<ab-family 1 include the Anisodactylides, as the 

 two sub-families approach very closely, and are not easily separated 

 from one another. Baron de Chaudoir has found that all the 

 species of Harpalus hitherto described from Australia by Castelnau 

 and others, are really of the sub-family Anisodactylides. 



73. Gnathaphanus pulcher, Dej. 

 Mast. Cat. Col. Sp. 664. 



74. Diaphoromerus politus, n.sp. 



Elongate-ovate, black, nitid. Head a little narrowed between 

 the eyes, considerably narrowed in front, very smooth, a light 



