NOTES ON AUSTRAIJAN COLEOPTERA, WITH DESCRIPTIONS OF NEW SPECIES. By the Rev. T. Blackburn, B.A., Cork. Mem. Linn. Soc. N.S.W. Part III. The following notes and descriptions embody the results of the study of various Coleoptera chiefly belonging to my own collection. CARABID.^. EuTOMA (Carenum) sumptuosum, Westw. I have received from Dr. Bovill a very remarkable insect taken in the N. Territory which appears to be probably identical with the type on which Prof. West wood's brief description of this insect was founded. It agrees very exactly in size and proportions (long. 10, lat. 3 lines) and with such scanty record of the sculp-tural characters as the Professor gives, viz., — "two punctures on the elytra near the base and two others subapical " (these four punctures are very large and strong), — also, " front tibise exter-nally bidentate " (the teeth are very long and acute, and the smaller teeth above them are so placed as to be quite invisible when the tibia is looked straight down upon). These characters would be quite insufficient, of course, for identification among the great number of Australian Scaritidce now known, — but the colouring mentioned in the description is so peculiar that I think it justifies my identification. Professor Westwood describes it thus, — "nigrum, igneo colore varium." In the example before me the head is black with the exception of the portion behind the eyes (all across) and part of the space between the eyes and the frontal sulci, which are bright green. The prothorax all round the
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