BY THOMAS G. SLOANE. 565 



Often C. cordicollis has the apex of the elytra testaceous, wliile 

 the specimen I have from Lilydale is a Httle smaller, with the 

 rows of punctures on the elytra finer, the seventh indicated by 

 about seven punctures. 



CVCLOTHORAX LATICOLLIS, n.Sp. 



Elliptical-oval, robust, convex ; head hevigate, front feebly 

 biimpressed ; prothorax transverse, wider at base than apex, 

 punctate near basal margin; elytra fully striate. Black, nitid, 

 femora and antenme testaceous, tibiiv infuscate. 



Head short, wide, convex ; front with a shallow foveiform 

 impression on each side between base of antennfe; eyes convex, 

 not inclosed behind. Prothorax short, transverse (0'8 x l'25mm.), 

 convex, Ifevigate (except just along basal margin), bordered 

 (except on middle of base); sides rounded; anterior margin trun- 

 cate, angles obtuse, near sides of head ; base truncate on each 

 side, middle lightly, widely and roundly produced backwards; 

 basal angles widely obtuse; lateral margins a little explanate near 

 basal angles and widened near anterior angles; border reflexed 

 on sides, not reflexed at basal angles ; basal impressions 

 hardly marked, very shallow, short, wide, punctate; median line 

 hardly impi-essed. Elytra ovate, a little wider than prothorax 

 (2-3 X 1-3 mm.), convex ; sides subparallel in middle, strongly 

 rounded to base; humeral angles widely rounded; stria? entire, 

 strongly punctate on disc; striole of first interstice short; third 

 interstice bipunctate along course of third stria. Length 3 "6, 

 breadth 1-3 mm. 



Hah. : N.S. Wales — Grenfell (Sloane; one specimen under the 

 leaves of a felled sapling near Grenfell, August 17th, 1899.) 



A thoroughly distinct species ; its prothorax with the base 

 decidedly wider than the apex and with wide basal angles 

 difterentiates it from all the sj^ecies of the genus known to me; 

 the basal punctate area of the prothorax, wliich is defined by a 

 Jiransverse impression, is very narrow, not lower than the rest of 

 the surface, and does not extend near the basal angles on each 

 side. 



