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longitudinally sulcata and setose on each side, punctate anteriorly 

 — except on each side of disc; elytra wide, depressed (5-5x3 -3 mm. ), 

 strongly punctate-striate, interstices Ifevigate (not shagreened), 

 sparingly seriate- setigerous. Black, nitid; trochanters and parts 

 of mouth piceous ; femora — excepting apex — pale testaceous ; 

 tibiae black, a wide testaceous band in middle. 



Head with eyes as broad as long; middle of front and vertex 

 impunctate; front wideW biimpressed. Prothorax longer than 

 broad (1'7 x 1'5 mm.), convex, lightly ampliate on each side in 

 middle; disc with a smooth space on each side anteriorly, lateral 

 margin thick, convex (subcarinate); median line linear. Length 

 10, breadth 3*3 mm. 



Hab. : N. S. Wales — Mulwala and Junee (Sloane ; a single 

 specimen at Mulwala, 26th June, 1896, under loose bark of a red 

 gum tree, having taken refuge from flood water; and on the muddy 

 bank of Houlaghan's Creek, fifteen miles north from the town of 

 Junee, a single example under a stick). 



Differs from E. macleayi, Bates, by its deep shining black 

 colour, the tarsi and basal joints of antennte black; head wider 

 across the eyes and more strongly constricted posteriorly, less 

 punctate; prothorax more elongate and more ampliate on sides, 

 less closely punctate, elytra with interstices nitid, not shagreened, 

 more sparingly setose (the setse piceous, erect), stria? more deeply 

 impressed and more strongly punctate, apical curve less shortly 

 oblique on each side. The elytra have a wide transverse depression 

 on each side of the disc a little before the apex. 



Tribe LEBIINI. 



Genus S a r o t h r o c r e p i s. 



Sarothrocrepis humeratus, n.sp. 



Depressed; prothorax transverse, posterior angles rectangular; 

 elytra truncate on base, shoulders dentate. Bicolorous : head, 

 antennae and tibiae ferruginous; prothorax testaceous; elytra black 

 with a parallelogram-shaped plaga on basal half, basal border and 



