ble to see the original specimen of the Scarites
cyaneus, so that in all probability it has been destroyed; it is much to
be desired that accurate figures and descriptions were made and published
of the original specimens described by Linnaeus and Fabricius, which
exist in the Banksian and Smithian Cabinets in the possession of the
Linnean Society, as well as those to be found in the Hunterian and
British Museums. The genus Eutoma of Newman* seems to me to be synonymous
with Carenum, but different from Arnidius of Leach.

(*Footnote. Entomological Magazine 5 page 170 Eu. tinctilatus.)

CHLAENIUS, Bon.

Chlaenius greyianus, new species.

C. supra laete viridi-smaragdinus, elytris costis tribus, suturaque
elevatis cupreis, laevibus, interstitiis laevibus; margine utraque linea
punctorum impressorum instructa; subtus piceo-niger, antennis pedibusque
piceo-nigris.

I have named this beautiful species after the Governor of South
Australia; in the system it would come close to the European Chlaenius
quadrisulcatus, Illiger. (Dejean and Boisduval Iconogr. et Histoire
Naturelle des Coleopt. d'Europe 2 page 185 plate 94 f. 3) which it seems
singularly to represent.

It is however rather a larger insect, and of a brighter green above than
any specimens of the other species which I have seen, there is less of
the coppery tinge about its upper surface. The thorax is much narrower,
the lateral margins can hardly be called depressed, and they are not at
all longitudinally scooped out there, as they are in the C.
quadrisulcatus. The elytra are very distinctly sinuated towards the
extremity, and the three elevated ribs are smooth and of a coppery bronze
colour, with the intervening spaces smooth (at least not granulated as in
the C. quadrisulcatus) and have two longitudinal lines of impressed
points, one on each side of the smooth interval.

This short description may suffice to distinguish this beautiful species.

Habitat King George's Sound, Captain George Grey. (British Museum.)

Staphylinus erythrocephalus, Fabricius.

Systema Entomologiae 265 to 266 1775 Syst. Eleuth. 2 593 19.

Oliv. Ent. 3 Number 42 sp. 9 page 12 plate 2 figure 9.

Erichs. Genera et species Staphyl. sp. 8 page 351 1840.

Habitat Australia (King George's Sound) Captain George Grey, Museum
British.

The specimens brought home by Captain Grey seem to me identical with the
above. Fabricius describes the thorax (truncated in front and rounded
behind)