490 SOME NEW SPECIES OF COLEOPTEKA, 



raetasternum densely clad with long flavous haic; elytra of darker 

 brown, subnitid and glabrous. 



Head cliannelled between the eyes, irregularly rugosely punc- 

 tate, mandibles coarsely punctate, large, rectangular in outline, 

 subtruncate in front; eyes reniform, finely faceted: antenna?, joint 

 1 moderately enlarged, 3 slightly longer than 4, 4-10 of equal 

 length hut of diminishing thickness, 11 flattened and lanceolate. 

 Pronotum very transverse, wider at apex than at base, the former 

 truncate with raised border, the latter sinuate and narrowly 

 bordered, with central lobe rounded behind; sides with a single 

 long acute spine directed outwards and backwards; anterior 

 angles obtuse, scarcely dentate, disc rugosely punctate, media] 

 line indicated by an indistinct smooth impression. Scnfellnni 

 large, rounded behind, front portion concealed by ])ronotal cilia; 

 closely punctate. Elytra much wider than prothorax at base, 

 shoulders rounded, apex widely rounded and subtruncate, with 

 two small sutural spines; closely pitted Avith large round punc- 

 tures, often confluent on basal half, becoming smaller but distinct 

 at apex and sides, with a narrow raised border channelled within. 

 Abdomen with some fine scattered punctures, prosternum and 

 legs with much larger punctures, those on the legs widely placed 

 tibia? channelled, four spined at apex, front tibia; with one sinall 

 spine on exterior edge, intermediate tibia; with one larger sf'ine 

 halfway, and sometimes two smaller spines above this, posterior 

 tibiae with two or three spines on exterior edge. Dimensions, 

 24-25 X 10-10-5mm. 



//rt,^._Dorrigo, New South Wales! Mr. II. J. Tillyard). 



Two specimens, both male, of this remarkable Prionid were 

 taken by Mr. Tillyard, in November, 1911. I can find no 

 character which distinguishes the species from the other meml)ers 

 of Sceleocantha except the wonderfully shaped palpi (I liave 

 undoubted specimens of S. (jJahricoJlis Newm., and S. pilosicollis 

 Hope, before me). The anterior angle of prothorax is scarcely 

 dentate though slightly reflexed. Tlie palpi would seem to give 

 the rank of subfamily to the genus, but, as the female is yet 

 unknown, the full importance of the character cannot at present 

 be determined. In the maxillary palpi, the first two joints are 



