ILLUSTRATIONS OF AUSTRALIAN COLEOPTERA. 

 By A. MUSGRAVE and E. H. ZECK. 



(Plate IX.) 



Recognising the necessity of reliable figures for the elucidation of species of Australian Coleoptera. 

 it is the intention of the writers to publish plates from time to time, illustrating unfigured forms. We 

 are led to undertake this work owing to the difficulty we have encountered in identifying material 

 which lias fallen into our hands from descriptions alone. Thousands of unfigured species have been 

 described, many of them inadequately, and many in foreign journals which can only be referred to by 

 those who have access to the libraries of our several scientific institutions. The undertaking offers 

 many difficulties and the present contribution is a very small one. We nevertheless hope that the 

 work here begun will prove useful. 



The four species here figured were described by Mr. T. G. Sloane in the Proceedings of the Linnean 

 Society of New South Wales, and the specimens on which our illustrations are based have all been 

 examined by him. 



Family CARABIDAE 



Tribe Scaratini 



CARENIDIUM LEAL Sloane. 



(Plate IX., fig. i). 



Carenidium leai, Sloane, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S. Wales xxii, 1897, p. 223, and xxx., 1905, Suppl. p. 17. 

 Drawn from one of a series of three specimens collected at Cue, West Australia, by Mr. H. Brown. 



Measurements of specimen figured — Length 26.8 mm., breadth 6.8 mm. 



Tribe Broscini. 

 EURYLYCHNUS CYLINDRICUS, Sloane. 

 (Plate IX. ; fig. 4). 

 Eurylychmis cylindncus, Sloane, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S. Wales, xli., 1916, p. 199. 



The specimen figured is one of ten paratypes collected at Barrington Tops, Mount Royal Range, 

 New South Wales, in December, 1915, by Messrs. H. J. Carter and A. Musgrave. The species is common 

 under logs in the Beech Forests at an altitude of 4,500 to 5,000 feet. 



Measurements — Length 18.5 mm., breadth 5.6 mm. 



Tribe Heixuonini. 

 HELLUAPTERUS NIGER, Sloane. 

 (Plate IX. ; fig. 3). 

 Helhtapterus niger, Sloane, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S. Wales, xxxix., 1914, p. 591. 



Our figure represents a topotype collected by Mr. H. Brown at Cue, West Australia. It is 30 mm. 

 long and 12.2 mm. broad. 



