176 Notes on Australian Coleoptera. 
feeble punctated strize; a few punctures, larger than the others, 
are irregularly dispersed in these strize; on the posterior 
part of the margin a few punctiform impressions; mouth, 
antennz, inferior side of the body and legs of a reddish 
brown. . 
Victoria, in Dr. Howitt’s collection. 
Oratoceride. 
No Australian Carabide had till lately been placed in this 
family, but Forticosomus belongs to it, the anterior tarsi of 
the males being very little more dilated than those of the 
females ; as also a new genus formed ona large insect previ- 
ously described by White as a Feronia. The Acinopus 
Australis of Hope is very nearly allied to the latter, but the 
squamule of its tarsi make it necessary to leave it among 
Harpalide. 
This family of Cratoceride is a most unnatural and artifi- 
cial division. 
I have also placed here as an Amblygnathus, an insect, of 
which more specimens must be examined before its definitive 
place can be ascertained. 
TEROPHA. 
Mentum broad, transverse, very strongly emarginated, 
having in its centre a strong bifid tooth; the wings very 
long, rounded externally, pointed at the extremity, and cut 
rather obliquely on the inner side. Labrum quadrilateral, 
transverse; mandibule very long, inflexed downwards, 
arched, rounded externally, pointed at the extremity, 
straight, or rather emarginated inside. They are strong, 
and carinated at the base. Palpi: the maxillary long, rather 
slender, having their first article short, the second the longest, 
the third conical, and the last rather inflexed and rounded at 
the extremity; the labial with the first very small, the 
second very long, and the third truncated at the extremity ; 
trochanters of the posterior pair very long, attenuated poste- 
riorly, curved and pointed at the apex. Antenne rather 
short, growing more attenuated from the base to the extre- 
mity ; first article large, second and fourth equal, third 
larger; head very large, inflexed downwards; thorax 
large, longer than broad, with the sides almost straight ; it 
is broader in front than behind; the anterior margin is 
emarginated, and the posterior angles are acute; scutellum 
