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side of scutellum; between this and scutellary margin a short 

 row of about eight large punctures; between each of the costse 

 Are four rows of regularly and closely placed round punctures; 

 between the outside costje and the margins the rows of punctures 

 less regular and distinct, except a single row of larger lateral 

 punctures; the ely tral punctures largest near suture and gradually 

 smaller towards the sides. Abdomen punctured in the middle, 

 longitudinally strigose towards sides, whole surface of sternum 

 scabrous like upper surface of pronotum, femora punctate, apex 

 ■of tibiae and tarsi sparsely clothed with yellowish tomentum. 

 Dimensions 12-14 mm. long; 5J--6|-mm. wide. 



Hab. — Port Darwin, and Camoweel (North Queensland). 



Sixteen specimens are before me, sent by Mr. C. French, F.L.S. 

 Both sexes are evidently present, the males in general being 

 smaller, a little more convex, with anterior tarsi wider. An 

 evident member of Macleay's Section ii.. Subsection 1, it is 

 distinct from the seven described species of that group. Its 

 nearest ally is P. crenulatus Macl., but that species is smaller, 

 with its costse nodular, " the whole having a crenulate and 

 olathrate appearance." In P. seplemcostatus there is a faint 

 indication of nodulation of the costse at the apex only in some 

 specimens, and a still fainter suspicion of crenulation, but it is 

 very different from Macleay's species, with which I have compared 

 it. Type in author's coll. 



Pterohel^us puncticollis, n.sp. 



Elongate-ovate, elytra rather depressed, prothorax opaque, 

 elytra more nitid, brown-black, beneath reddish; antennae black, 

 apical joints piceous. 



Head: epistoma finely, front coarsely and rugosely punctured, 

 front and sides of epistoma nearly circular, not limited behind 

 b)"- definite suture, strongly widened and raised on antennal 

 orbit, then abruptly narrowing to the eyes, these widely separated. 

 Antennae slender at base, with four apical joints much wider 

 than preceding and flattened, 8-10 round, eleventh half as long 

 -again as the tenth, ovoid. Prothorax (4x9 mm.), length in 



