NOTES ON AUSTEALIAN COLEOPTERA WITH 

 DESCRIPTIONS OF NEW SPECIES. 



By THE Rev. T. Blackburn, B. A.^ Core. Mem. Linn. Soc. N.S. W. 



The following memoir, like others that I have written under a 

 similar title, is of a somewhat miscellaneous character. The very 

 limited amount of leisure time at my disposal and the shortness of 

 the intervals in which it occurs, render it very difficult for me to 

 make an exhaustive study of an individual family, or even genus ; 

 and I have usually to be content with merely noting from time to 

 time the characters of new genera or species that may come hap- 

 hazard into my hand, observations on synonymy, and aught else 

 that may appear to call for publication. This I trust will be 

 accepted as an apology for the too miscellaneous contents of the 

 memoir. 



I have the greater pleasure in offering the memoir to the Linnean 

 Society, because it gives me the opportunity of expressing in the 

 pages of their Proceedings my acknowledgments of the assistance 

 I have received in its preparation through the courtesy of the Hon. 

 William Macleay, who has been good enough to compare with his 

 types some South Australian forms, and so enable me to feel 

 confident that I am working in harmony with the many valuable 

 publications on Australian Coleoptera that he has put forth. 



CARABID^. 



SiLPHOMaRPHA SPRETA, sp.nov. 



Lata ; depressa ; minus nitida ; supra nigra ; labi'o, mandibulis, 

 antennis, et marginibus lateralibus rufescentibus ; elytris niagn^ 



