_Eutoma tinctilatum_, found about Sydney, and typical of the elongate slender Scaritides, was described by Newman many years ago, and figured by Westwood in his “Arcana Entomologica 1841”; it is a shining black beetle about 8 lines in length. _Carenum bonelli_, the commonest Sydney species of this genus, measures about ¾ of an inch and is broad in proportion; it is black, with bright metallic green tints on thorax and elytra. The members of the Genus _Philoscaphus_ are short and broad, with the elytra covered with rows of warts. _P. tuberculatus_ has a wide range over the western country; it measures over 1 inch in length; is black; the head and thorax are broader than the body; the latter oval, with the elytra finely rugose. [Illustration: =Fig. 61.=--_Euryscaphus lobicollis_ (Sloane). The Great Ground Scaritid Beetle, found in the interior.] The Genus _Euryscaphus_ contains the giants of the group. _Euryscaphus titanus_, a shining black beetle, is nearly 2 inches in length, and measures ¾ of an inch across the elytra; while _E. lobicollis_, a smaller beetle, has the body still broader in proportion to its size; both these and several other fine species are not uncommon on the Western Australian goldfields about Kalgoorlie. The allied CLIVINIDES, recently monographed by Sloane (Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W. 1896) are like elongate miniature Carenums furnished with dilated fore-legs adapted for digging; they are generally taken along the edges of swamps and watercourses under logs or the debris on the soft mud. They are world wide in their distribution, and are most plentiful in the warmer portions of the globe: Australia is rich in species: Sloane lists 55 species in his paper. _Clivina basalis_ has a wide range over S. Australia, Victoria, and N.S. Wales; it measures ¼ inch; is black, with the basal portion of the elytra and the legs red. _C. australasiae_, slightly larger, is all black; it has a similar range, and is also recorded from New Zealand and Lord Howe Island. The next group comprise the typical _Chlaenius_; they are rather long-legged beetles with a small head and somewhat heart-shaped thorax forming a slight neck behind, and with a broad, oval, convex abdomen. They are active beetles, generally found under stones or wood near water-holes; many of them have a greenish dull metallic tint. _Chlaenius puncticeps_ is black, with the legs and an irregular blotch at the apical half of each wing cover dull yellow. _C. maculifer_, from Queensland, is smaller; _C. laeteviridis_ is dull green with the edges of the wing covers yellow; _C. marginatus_ is a larger and brighter green beetle with the wing covers marked with yellow in a similar manner.