200 Notes on Australian Coleoptera. 
Feronide. 
The family of Feronide is most numerously represented 
in Australia, and when the mountains of that continent, 
which form the place of residence of most species, will have 
been thoroughly explored, I do not doubt that their numbers 
will be at least as considerable as the one belonging to the 
European Fauna. 
T begin the study of this family by the description of 
several new genera belonging to it. Feronia proper is the 
most difficult group of all Carabide, on account of the great 
number of its species. I will describe at first those of Aus- 
tralia proper, and afterwards those of New Zealand 
ZEODERA. 
Mentum deeply emarginated, with a strong tooth in the 
centre; the wings broad, pointed at the apex, rounded ex- 
ternally ; labrum transversal; mandibule strong, arched, 
subearinated, pointed at the apex; palpi: maxillaree with 
their first article short, the second long and compressed, the 
third conical, the last rather longer than the precedent, 
thicker, rather rounded externally, and broadly truncated ; 
the labial with their first article short, the second very long, 
the last large, broad, truncated, almost securiform ; antenne 
filiform, rather long, with the first article large, the second 
shorter than the third, which is nearly as long as the first ; 
the others of equal length. Tarsi with the three first 
articles of the first pair strongly dilated in the male, the first 
longer than the others ; they have below two rows of squa- 
mulz and spiny hair; the tarsi of the other two pair are 
simple, with the first article as long as the two following ; 
in the female the anterior tarsi are not dilated, the head is 
oval; the thorax large, almost square, rather broader behind 
than in front, sulcated in the middle, and having two long 
impressions behind ; elytra oval and depressed, no abbre- 
viated strie near the scutellum ; legs rather strong, the an- 
terior deeply emarginated and having a strong terminal 
spine, and another over the emargination. The absence of 
the abbreviated striz near the scutellum, and the form of 
the palpi brings this genus near Microcephalus, but in the 
latter the palpi are very strongly securiform, and obliquely 
truncated. 
Zeodera Ater: length 10’; oblong, of a brilliant black ; 
elytra very deeply striated, almost sulcated, with punctiform 
