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apex truncate, angles not mai-ked, very near sides of head; base 

 roundly truncate, angles marked, obtuse at summit; border narrow, 

 hardly reflexed near basal angles ; punctate basal area not 

 depressed below plane of prothorax, not rugose; the punctures 

 fine, separate (poriform); a light basal impression on each side; 

 median line strongly impressed, not reaching base or apex. 

 Elytra much wider than prothorax, truncate-oval (3 x 2 mm.), 

 convex, lightly declivous to base; shoulders widely and evenly 

 rounded; apical curve lightly sinuate on each side; six inner striae 

 on each elytron well marked, rather strongly punctate, not reach- 

 ing base, first entire, others successively shorter; striole at base of 

 first interstice formed by a rather elongate row of punctures; 

 submarginal stria strongly impressed ; interstices flat, third 

 bipunctate on disc, lateral interstice seriate-punctate , lateral 

 border uniting with basal border and reaching peduncle. Under 

 surface (excepting episterna of mesosternum) impunctate. Length 

 4-5, breadth l'7-2 mm. 



Hah.: Queensland — Brisbane (sent by Mr. Lea); N.S. Wales — 

 Clarence River and Windsor (Lea), Grenfell, Junee, Urana, 

 Muhvala (Sloane) ; Victoria — Ferntree Gully and Lily dale 

 (Sloane). 



Habits. — Found in danap situations near water, usually rare, 

 but on July 11th, 1895, I found it very plentifull}' under sticks 

 along the edge of a swamp about twenty miles north from the 

 town of Urana. 



This is the species I formerly regarded as C. peryphoides, Blkb.,* 

 but Mr. Blackburn has informed me that it differs from that 

 species. The only diff"erence the description of C. peryphoides 

 suggests to me is the darker colour of the legs in that species, a 

 character that seems of little value, but probably C. peryphoides 

 has the prothorax more strongly sinuate near the base, the basal 

 angles more marked, and perhaps a coarser puncturation on the 

 basal area. 



* r.L.S.N.S.W. lS9i, (-2), ix. p 448. 



