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well represented in Australia as it is in Europe, but till this 
day few species have been described. I have observed that 
almost all the Australian sorts have the palpi pointed at the 
extremity, but all their other characters being those of 
Harpalus, and the passage being insensible, it does not 
appear advisable to separate them from that genus. 
Dejean’s Species only contains six—Pulcher, Melanarius, 
Lucidicollis, Hreus, Australis and Australasice. 
Germar, in his paper on the insects of Adelaide (* Linnxa 
Entomologica”), only adds one new species, nornatus. 
Hrichson gives three from Tasmania (“ Archiv fur Natur- 
geschichte,’ 1), Verticals, Promptus, Vestigialis. 
Mr. MacLeay, junr., in the “ Transactions of the Entomo- 
logical Society of New South Wales,” No. 2, adds three ‘ 
more, Interstitialis, Picipes, and Plavipalpis. 
Mons. Boisduval, in his “Faunede!l’Oceanie,’ addsone, Gory. 
This would carry the number of the described sorts to 
fourteen, but Jnterstitialis seems to be the same as Pulcher, 
and so this number is restricted to thirteen. In the present 
paper I describe fifty-three new sorts, which carry the total 
number to sixty-six. 
Europe has about one hundred and forty sorts, but if we 
consider how difficult is the study of this genus, and how 
few specimens are usually taken by collectors, on account of 
the great resemblance the sorts bear to each other, and also 
the very smali part of Australia that has been explored, we 
will come to the conclusion that an equal number at least 
will, in all probability, be discovered in this part of the 
world. No species of the section Ophonus has, till this day, 
been found in New Holland. 
Hurpalus Interioris: length 4’; short; of a dark brown, 
rather brilliant ; head large, with a strong transverse impres- 
sion in front, ending at each end by a punctiform one; 
thorax semispheric, truncated in form, the posterior angles 
almost rounded ; its surface presents a very faint transverse 
line in front, a faint, short longitudinal line in the centre, 
and a weak transverse line behind; elytra rather short, 
broader than the thorax, covered with striae, the first of 
which bifurcates in front, near the scutellum; a series of 
impressions follow the margin ; lower side of the body of a 
dark yellow, with the abdomen brown; legs, parts of the 
mouth, and base of the antennze yellow, the remaining of 
these brown. : 
_ Paroo River. 
