Notes on Australian Coleoptera. 185 
Harpalus Sculptipennis: length 43’; black, brilliant, 
rather bronzed; head nearly smooth; thorax transverse, 
quadrilateral, with the front angles rounded, and the posterior 
ones straight; the front transverse impression very feeble, the 
_sulcate moderate, the two posterior impressions rather short 
but deep, the lateral margin becoming much broader towards 
the posterior angles; elytra oblong, striated, with an abbre- 
viated striz near the scutellum ; the intervals of the elytra 
covered with very numerous impressions; the elytra are 
very strongly emarginated near their extremity, and the 
margins are more densely impressed than the surface ; the 
extremity of the palpi and the first article of the antennz of 
a reddish brown. 
King George’s Sound. 
Harpalus Sculpturalis: length 32’; very much like the 
precedent, but smaller and of a copper colour; the thorax is 
more rounded laterally; tibie and tarsi of a reddish 
brown, with the apex of the former black; two first articles 
of the antennez red ; palpi variegated with red and black. 
King George’s Sound and Swan River. 
Harpalus Incequalipennis : length 5’; black; head large, 
rounded, rugous; thorax short, transverse, rather cordiform, 
rounded laterally, with the posterior angles rather obtuse ; 
it 1s narrower in front than behind; entirely rugous, with a 
feeble transverse impression in front, a moderate longitudinal 
sulcate on the centre, and two strong and elongated impres- 
sions behind; elytra broader than the thorax, oblong, de- 
pressed, very strongly emarginated ‘at their posterior part; 
striated and covered with very irregular impressions; lower 
side of the body and legs of a more brilliant black than the 
upper side. 
King George’s Sound and Swan River. 
Harpalus Alternans: length 6’; black; head large, 
rounded, strongly impressed in front; thorax a little broader 
than long, rounded laterally, with the anterior angles rather 
advanced, and the posterior ones obtuse and lightly directed 
upwards; the anterior transverse impression is very feeble, the 
sulcate moderately marked; the posterior impressions feeble 
and elongated; elytra oblong, rather broader than the thorax, 
very strongly emarginated externally near the apex; they 
are striated; behind the sutural striz is an abbreviated one 
which extends to about the first fourth of the total length of 
the elytra. On theintervals between the second, third, fourth, 
fifth, sixth, and seventh striz are series of strong punctiform 
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