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A NOTE ON THE CARENIDES, WITH DESCRIPTIONS 
OF NEW SPECIES. 
By Thomas G. Sloane. 
The Carenides form a very natural group of the Adepha- 
gous sub-family Scaritidse, in which are included all the wingless 
Australian Scaritidse. This group has been made the subject of 
investigation by Professor Westwood, Count Castelnau, Baron de 
Chaudoir, the Hon. William Macleay, and the Rev. Thomas 
Blackburn. 
In 1887, Mr. Macleay published a revision of the Carenides in 
Proc. Linn. Soc. N S.W. (2), Vol. II., when he brought the history 
of the group down to date, and described sixteen new species. 
Since then Mr. Macleay has added two new species fi'om the 
Dawson River, Queensland,* * * § and three new species from the 
Kimberley district of West Australia; f and the Rev. T. Black- 
burn has contributed two notes on this group to the Royal Society 
of South Australia, in one of which;}; he describes six new species ; 
in the other§ he forms the new genus Epilectus (described origin- 
ally as Eurygnathus but altered to Epilectus, 4th October, 1887). 
In the present paper I describe thirteen species as new, and 
suggest three new sub-generic names, viz., Neoscaphus, Palis- 
capkuSf and Chariscaplerus. 
In the synoptical table, which I give below, I have used several 
new features for the purposes of classification. All these characters 
I believe to be constant, and hope the table, imperfect though it 
be, will prove useful to the student. The terms “apical plate,” for 
• Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W. (2), Vol. II. p. 972. 
+ Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W, (2), Vol. III. p. 460. 
X Trans. Roy. Soc. S. Australia, 1887, Vol. X. 
§ Trans. Roy. Soc. S. Australia, 1887, Vol. X. 
