128 Notes on Australian Coleoptera. 
strong, thighs thick ; anterior tibie straight, but strongly 
emarginated inside ; tarsi with their four first articles tri- 
angular ; those of the anterior pair rather thicker than those 
of the others, but not dilated. 
Teraphis Melbowrnensis: length 33’; of a dark glossy 
brown ; thorax rounded and marginated on the sides with a 
longitudinal sulcate on the middle, and impressed trans- 
versely in front and behind; two strong, broad and deep 
Impressions near the posterior margin ; elytra of an oval 
form, covered with punctated strize; legs and parts of the 
mouth of a dark red; antennz hirsute except at their 
basilar articles. 
From the Dandenong Mountains, near Melbourne. 
Teraphis Argutoroides: length 32°; of a dark glossy 
brown ; generally of a longer form than the precedent ; 
thorax a little longer ; elytra almost parallel, laterally rounded 
behind. 
Kiama, New South Wales. 
Teraphis Elongata: length 34’ ; of a rather dark reddish 
brown, glossy ; of a much more elongated form than the two 
precedent ; thorax as long as broad, with its sides rounded 
in front, but straight at its posterior part; a longitudinal 
sulcate in the middle, and on each side behind a very deep 
impression, which externally runs in an oblique direction 
towards the posterior angle; elytra strongly striato-punc- 
tated ; legs of a dark orange-red. — 
From the Mountains of Victoria (Yankee Jim). 
Scaritidee. 
This group is almost restricted to the warm parts of the 
globe, few of its genera extending further north in Europe 
than the shores of the Mediterranean ; its centre of habita- 
tion lies between the tropics. Till lately it had been thought 
almost wanting in Australia, and for a considerable period one 
single Carenwm seemed to be its only representative on this 
continent. Mr. Westwood, however, extended our know- 
ledge of these insects, and brought their number to nearly 
twenty sorts. Lately Mr. Macleay, jun., in a series of able 
papers, published in the “ Transactions of the Entomological 
Society of New South Wales,” has described a vast number 
of new species, and carried the number of the entire group to 
seventy-eight: I describe here twenty-two new species, and 
I do not doubt that in a short time the number actually 
known will be doubled. 
