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genus (keyed out and discussed by Tschitscherine in Horae 
Soc. Ent. Rossicae, Vol. 32, 1898, pp. 39-46), and there are 
many other specific differences. It is not so easy to say just 
how the new species is related to ''Notonomus” opacistri- 
atus SI., which Sloane eventually decided was not a Xotono- 
mus (Proc. Linn. Soc. Neiv South Wales, Vol. 38, 1913, p. 
409), and which is from Cairns, below the Atherton Table- 
land. The two species are apparently related, but different. 
As compared with the description of opacistriatus, the 
present new species agrees in many significant details in- 
cluding alternation in width of the elytral intervals and 
opacity of the elytral striae, but Sloane’s species is evident- 
ly a wider, less convex, somewhat differently shaped insect. 
This is shown by the measurements he gives (16 by 5.5 mm. 
— a 16 mm. specimen of the present new species would 
be less than 5 mm. wide), by his statement that his species 
is oval and rather depressed while the present new species 
is subparallel and rather convex, and by his statement that 
in his species the prothoracic margins (as distinguished 
from the lateral channels) are narrow but wider toward 
the base while the present new species has no margins ex- 
cept the lateral channels, this being consistent with the new 
species being a narrower and more convex insect. I think 
that ''Notonomus” opacistHatus SI. will probably pro\ e to 
be a link between Leiraclira and more normally formed 
pterostichines, but I do not care to place it formally with- 
out seeing it. 
Genus Setalis Cast. 
Setalis sloanei n. sp. 
Almost exactly like Setalis niger Cast, in form and ap- 
pearance, but very much smaller; shining black, legs brown- 
ish piceous, antennae reddish brown ; upper surface slightly 
silky but without distinct microsculpture. Head .62 and .59 
width prothorax in 6 9 measured, almost as in 5. ulgtr, 
swollen posteriorly, with small but even more abruptly 
prominent eyes; frontal impressions deep, irregular, some- 
what converging, joined anteriorly by a sharply defined 
slightly emarginate clypeal suture; surface impunctate. 
P}'otho7'ax 1/4 wider than long, narrowed anteriorly, .scarce- 
ly so posteriorly ; base about 2/5 wider than apex : side.s 
