182 Notes on Australian Coleoptera. 
This insect belongs to the section Pangus. 
Harpalus Waterhousii : length, 42’; very much like the 
precedent, but the thorax still more rounded at the posterior 
angles, the longitudinal line also very faint, but no posterior 
impressions ; the entire surface is marked with transverse © 
striole, the spines of the tibise very strong; the colour is 
sometimes dark, but often of a light brown. 
Adelaide. 
Harpalus Thouzeti: length 6’; oval, rather depressed ; 
black, rather brilliant; head with two slight punctiform 
impressions in front, united by a transverse line; thorax 
quadrangular, rather transverse, with the angles rather 
rounded ; it is smooth with the longitudinal line, the anterior 
transverse one, and the two posterior impressions very little 
marked ; elytra broader than the thorax, depressed, much 
less brilliant than the thorax, having longitudinal striz, on 
the third of which a punctiform impression is seen behind ; 
a short abbreviated striz near the sutura, and a series of 
very feeble impressions on the posterior part of the margin ; 
lower side of the body and legs of a brilliant black; a feeble 
impression on each side of the abdominal segments ; antennze 
black, with the basal article brown; palpi of the latter 
colour. 
Common at Rockhampton. I have also a few specimens 
from Port Denison. 
Harpalus Rotundicollis: length 5’; form elongated, of a 
dark brown, rather brilliant ; head smooth with two puncti- 
form impressions in front; thorax semicircular, rather 
emarginated in front, rounded and laterally, narrower behind 
than in front, with all the angles rounded, the lateral 
margins are broad, the surface is covered with small transverse 
striole, on the centre a slight longitudinal sulcate, and a 
feeble transverse impression in front and behind; elytra 
strongly striated, a series of impressions on, the posterior 
part of the margin; legs, antenne and parts of the mouth 
of a light orange colour. 
Note.—There is sometimes a punctiform impression on 
the back part of the interval between the second and third 
strie, but generally there is none. | 
This insect appears to inhabit a great portion of the 
Australian continent. I have it from the Paroo River, 
Rockhampton (Queensland), the Murray, Melbourne, Ade- © 
laide, and Swan River; the thorax of this insect has the 
