Notes on Australian Coleoptera. 99 
centre, and two impressions on its posterior part; its colour 
is of a light brown, with the margin lighter; elytra of a 
long oval form, striated, of a glossy brown, with the margin 
of a light yellow-brown; inferior parts of the body and legs 
of the latter ight colour. 
Mountains of Victoria (Yankee Jim). In Dr. Howitt’s 
collection. 
Carabidee Proper. 
Carabus which is otherwise represented in most tem- 
perate regions of the world, either in the northern or in the 
southern hemisphere, does not appear to inhabit any part of 
Australia. As far as general form goes it seems to be repre- 
sented by Pamborus. ‘The allied genus Calosoma, on the 
contrary, has at least three representatives in New Holland— 
Curtisii (Hope) which is the same as Shayert of Hrichson, 
seems to inhabit the entire continent of New Holland. I 
have it in my collection, from Melbourne, New South Wales, 
the Paroo River, Flinders River, Swan River, Ganthaume 
Bay, and Adelaide. It is never very common. 
This Calosoma has nocturnal habits, and is sometimes 
taken during dark nights in the most frequented streets of 
Melbourne. c : 
The other sort described, Calosoma Australis (Hope), is a — 
very rare insect, of which few specimens have yet been 
found, generally towards Cooper’s Creek, in the central 
part of the continent. se 
I describe here a new sort in Dr. Howitt’s collection. 
Calosoma Grandipenne: length 12’; of a dark green, lighter 
on the margins of the elytra; head smooth, having only a 
few punctures near the eyes; thorax short, broad, rounded 
laterally ; marginated with a longitudinal sulcate in the 
centre, and two large round impressions behind; it is smooth 
on the disc, and granulated laterally; elytra very large, 
broad, twice and a half as long as the head and thorax 
united: convex, covered with very strong punctato-strie ; 
the intervals between these strive having a few impressions, 
these latter forming regular lines on the eighth and twelfth 
intervals; margins granulous; lower side of the thorax of a 
metallic green; abdomen brown, with the sides of the 
segments tinged with green; legs black ; parts of the mouth 
and antennee of a dark brown. 
Only one specimen of this insect has been found near 
Melbourne. 
