188 Notes on Australian Coleoptera. 
copper colour; lower side of the body, legs, antenne, and 
parts of the mouth of a reddish brown. 
Brisbane. 
Harpalus Peronw: length 32’; oval, depressed ; head 
feebly impressed ; thorax transversal, with the sides rounded ; 
it is about as broad in front as it is behind; the anterior 
angles are rather advanced, 'the posterior ones obtuse ; on the 
anterior margin are a few longitudinal striole, very faintly 
marked ; the anterior impression is feeble; no longitudinal 
sulcate visible ; two rather strongly marked rounded impres- 
sions behind; elytra broader than the thorax; oval, with 
rather feeble striz, the intervals of which are flat ; a small 
abbreviated stria near the scutellum, united with the second 
stria ; margin impressed. | 
The insect is black, with the thorax of a dark copper 
colour; the tibize and three first articles of the antenne 
red. 
King George’s Sound. 
Harpalus Plindersi : length 34’ to 4 ; body oblong ; head 
large, with the two front punctiform impressions well marked 
elongated and united by a transverse line; thorax rather 
transverse, very much rounded laterally, with the angles 
also rounded ; the front impression and the longitudinal one 
very feeble, but the two posterior impressions strong; elytra 
with striz much deeper towards the extremity than on the 
other part ; a very short abbreviated one near the scutellum ; 
impressions on the anterior part and on the posterior half of 
the margin; posterior tibize curved. The colour is a dark 
shining brown ; lower side of the body of a dark red; legs, 
antenne, palpi, yellow ; mandibule brown, with their ex- 
tremity red. 
Rockhampton. 
Note.—On most specimens there is on each elytra, back- 
wards and between the fourth and fifth strie, a longitudinal 
depression. 
Harpalus Quadraticollis: length 4)’; ofa brilliant black ; 
head oval, with two punctiform impressions in front of the 
eyes; thorax almost square but rather cordiform, a little 
broader in front than behind; the sides are rounded, the 
anterior angles also, the posterior ones straight ; the anterior 
transverse impression is feeble, but the longitudinal sulcate 
and the two posterior impressions are very deep; elytra oval, 
considerably broader than the base of the thorax, covered 
with deep longitudinal striz, the intervals of which are con- 
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