142 Notes on Australian Coleoptera. 
with its sides parallel, and the posterior angles rounded ; 
it has a longitudinal sulcate in the middle ; it is bordered 
behind, and has an impression on each angle, the front ones 
transversal, and the others joined by a transverse one; 
elytra bordered, smooth, with a punctiform impression 
behind, and an irregular one on the humeral angle ; 
legs red; the anterior tibize armed with two very strong spini- 
form teeth ; antenne hirsute, except on their first articles ; 
lower part of the body and abdomen of a brownish red ; the 
extremity of the palpi is slightly orange colour. 
From New South Wales, Eastern Creek. 
Note.——This insect is in most Australian collections under 
the name of Tinctillatum of Newmann, but this naturalist’s 
description does not agree with it. 
Kutoma Loddonensis : length 8’; long, narrow, cylindric, 
of a rather dull black, with the sides of the thorax and 
elytra of a beatiful purple; two sulcates between the eyes, 
diverging behind these organs, as they do also in front 
towards the anterior angles of the head ; a punctiform im- 
pression behind the eye ; clypeus dentated ; thorax long, with 
the sides parallel, but slightly inflexed inside towards their 
middle ; it has a longitudinal sulcate in the middle, a trans- 
verse impression behind, another very faint impression at 
each angle; the elytra are long, smooth, bordered laterally 
with a punctiform impression behind, and several irregular 
ones on the humera langle; the thighs are inflated ; anterior 
tibie strongly bidentated. : 
From the Loddon River ; in Dr. Howitt’s collection. 
Note.—This sort is nearly allied to Vewmanm, but very 
distinct by its more elongated form ; the elytra much longer 
the different form of the thorax, &e. 
SCARITES. 
I am told that Baron Chaudoir has formed on the Austra- 
lian Scarites a genus Geoscaphus, but 1 don’t know its 
characters. His Levissimus would also appear to be Mr. | 
MacLeay’s Jacksoniensis ? 
The Australian Scarites are very little known, but appear 
to be numerous. Most of them inhabit the central parts 
of the continent. Mr. Macleay (“Trans. Ent. Soc. of 
N.S.W.”) mentions eight sorts, which, with the six here 
described, make the actual number known to be fourteen. 
Of these, twelve are in my collection. 
