148 Notes on Australian Coleopteru. 
Indian species spread all over the known parts of the 
Australian continent. 
Chlenius Marginatus, Dej. species: I see no difference 
whatever between the Australian and the Indian species ; 
this is most extensively spread over Siam, the Malayan Penin- 
sula, Sumatra, and even Japan. I have taken it myself very 
frequently in the three first localities. 
The Australian insect is also common in almost all the 
known parts of New Holland; I have it from New South 
Wales, the Darling River, South Australia, and Swan River. 
It is of a metallic green, strongly puncturated on the 
thorax ; with the elytra striated and bordered by a yellow 
margin ; palpi, antennee, and legs of the latter colour. 
Chlenius Subcostatus, Macleay, junr., “Trans. Ent. Soe., 
New South Wales.” I have received from Rockbampton an 
insect which I believe to belong to this species ; it is very 
nearly allied to the preceding, but is of a darker colour, 
almost black, with the intervals of the costz rather cari- 
nated; the antennz are almost black, except at their three 
first articles. 
Chlemius Darlingensis: length 6’ ; this insect is so very 
nearly allied to Marginatus as to be, perhaps, only a variety 
of it. It has the same general colouration, but is broader, 
the thorax shorter, the elytra wider, more depressed, with 
their strize deeper; the antenne are almost black, with the 
basal articles yellow. 
One single specimen from the Darling River. 
Chlenius Maculifer: length 7’; dark copper colour, 
almost black; covered with a dense and strong punctura- 
tion ; head of a lighter copper colour; thorax almost cir- 
cular, with a faint longitudinal sulcate in the middle, and 
two very feeble impressions behind; elytra striated, with a 
bilobed orange spot on the posterior part of the elytra, 
towards the two-thirds of its length; lower parts of the 
body of a brilliant black ; basa] articles of the antenne, parts 
of the mouth and thighs of an orange yellow ; knees, part of — 
the tibie, tarsi, and remaining part of the antenne of a 
brownish black. 
This msect seems to be common on the Eastern coast. : 
have it from Port Denison, Rockhampton, and various parts » 
of New South Wales. It comes very near to several Indian 
and New Caledonian species, and also to Venator of the west 
coast of Africa. 
Chlemmus Maculiger: length 72’; this insect 1s very 
