1956 l Darlington — Australian Carabidae 5 
List of genera 
Laemostenus (or Laemosthenes) is a Palearctic genus. 
L. complanatus Dej. is native to the sub-desert regions of 
North Africa. It has been introduced around the Mediter- 
ranean, on several Atlantic islands, in western North 
America, southern South America, and parts of Australia 
and Tasmania, etc. 
Dicranoncus is a mainly Oriental genus. D. queens- 
landicus (SI.) extends from India and the Philippines 
to North Queensland. In the Philippines (on Luzon) I 
found it living in clumps of tall grass in open country. 
Lorostemma is an Oriental-Australian genus. L. cooki 
(SI.) occurs from North Queensland south at least to 
Brisbane, where I took a series in flood debris in Oct.- 
Nov., 1943. It resembles L. informalis Dari, of New 
Guinea, but has a smaller prothorax with narrower mar- 
gins. I have not made a more detailed comparison. 
Notagonum is a genus of convenience, proposed for a 
number of relatively unspecialized New Guinean species 
which resemble the northern Agonum but do not really 
belong to it. I tentatively assign to Notagonum about 8 
Australian species. Most of them have heretofore been 
listed as Agonum, Platynus, Anchomenus, or Europhilus, 
but these genera are all primarily northern and do not 
occur in the Australian Region. I shall not discuss these 
species in detail, except (below) to record one of them 
from Australia for the first time and to describe another 
as new. 
Colpodes, as used here, is another genus of convenience 
not sharply separable from Notagonum, but containing 
usually more specialized, larger, often more brightly 
colored, often arboreal rather than terrestrial species. 
The only Australian species here assigned to Colpodes is 
porphyriacus (SI.), which is known to me only by descrip- 
tion. Of two other “ Colpodes ” listed by Sloane (1910), 
one ( lafertei Mont.) is here tentatively assigned to 
Notagonum, and the other ( violaceus Chd.) is placed in a 
new genus (below). 
