vu€<y BREVIORA Museiioi of Coampsirative Zoology Cambridge, Mass. March 12, 1963 Number 183 AUSTRALIAX CARABID BEETLES XTIT. FURTHER NOTES ON AGONINI, AND A GENUS OF LICININI NEW TO AUSTRALIA By p. J. Darlington, Jr. Museum of Comparative Zoology, Cambridge, Mass. Since publication of my "Notes on the [Australian] Agonini" (1956) I have spent nineteen months in Australia (Dec. 1956-June 1958), mostly collecting in the eastern forested areas. My itinerary, with list of localities, is summarized in a recent paper (1961). The following additional notes on Agonini are based on material secured during this trip and borrowed from the Queensland Museum, and on examination of some of Sloane's types. The most exciting new discovery is an Australian species of the Indian genus Dilonchus, which is a licinine rather than an agonine but which is in some ways suitable to be ancestral to the supposedly agonine genus Tlomothcs. The finding of dimorphism of "fixed" setae in Notagoniim macleayi (Sloane) is noteworthy too. Tribe AGONINI Before considering the Agonini proper, I have to say that one supposed Australian agonine does not belong in this tribe. It is : CoPTOGLOSsus carteri (Sloaiie) (new combination) Platynus carteri Sloane 191.'i, p. 460. The type of this species, from Dorrigo, New South Wales, is in the Sloane Collection at Canberra. I have compared one of my specimens with it. It is a broad, depressed, dull black carab that looks superficially as if it might be either an agonine or a lebiine. The elytra are broadly rounded apically, not obliquely
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