1388 FUETHER NOTES ON AUSTRALIAN COLEOPTERA, 
member of that genus. In the example before me the anterior 
tar.si are moderately dilated (scarcely less strongly than in typical 
Hypharpax), but the intermediate only very slightly ; the hind 
femora are not toothed but they are somewhat dilated in a rounded 
manner at the place where the tooth is when present (it is quite 
likely that individuals vary in this respect) ] the hind tibiae are 
strongly curved near the a[jex and their inner edge is moderately 
crenulate and fringed -with long cilia. 
Cyclothorax. 
C. PUNCTIPENNIS, Mcl. 
This insect is extremely abundant all over South Australia; 
Mr. Macleay has done me the favour of confirming my identifica- 
tion of it. It is very close to C. insularis, Motsch., (of which I 
possess some specimens from New Zealand named by Mr. Bates), 
but may be distinguished from the latter by its narrower and 
more depressed form, and its less transverse prothorax, which, 
moreover, is decidedly smaller in proportion to the elytra, while 
the rows of punctures on the elytra can scarcely be said to run in 
striae. Capt. Broun in the “ Manual of New Zealand Coleoptera,” 
quotes Mr. Bates as stating that it {C. insularis) scarcely differs from 
the common Australia Anchomenus ambiguus, Er., the only differ- 
ence observable being its more aeneous colouring. I have not been 
able to find this statement in any of Mr. Bates’ published memoirs 
to which I have referred, and possibly it may have been made in a 
private communication. Moreover, as Capt. Broun uses no 
inverted commas in his quotation, it seems doubtful whether he 
makes Mr. Bates responsible for the latter part of the statement. 
But not even Mr. Bates’ authority (unless it were stated by himself 
to be founded on a comparison of the original types) could justify 
the statement. I have no doubt that A. arabigmis, Er., is a 
Cyclothorax, but Erichsen states it to be an insect with antennae 
of pitchy colour the base being testaceous (whereas C. inmlo/ris 
has wholly testaceous antennae, merely a little infuscate beyond the 
third joint), the elytra subaeneous (the absence of which character, 
