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REVISION OF SYMPETES AND HEL^EUS, ETC., 



Fig. 2. 



(4 X 5-5 mm.), widest behind middle, apex circularly emarginate, 

 anterior angles acute, strongly produced forward and a little 

 outward, sides widely sinuate anteriorly, more 

 abruptly behind, posterior angles widely acute (about 

 80°), subdentate and deflexed, base a little trisinuate, 

 and, together with the apex, very narrowly bordered; 

 sides with a thick round raised border abruptly end- 

 ing at both angles; lateral margins foliate (wider 

 than in A. Goudiei Carter) with the disc more con- 

 vex, not perceptibly punctured, having two large 

 depressions in front of basal border. Scutelhim 

 widely triangular, very convex and glabrous. Elytra 

 wider than prothorax at base, parallel for two-tliirds 

 of their length, rather flat anteriorly, surface uneven 

 with shallow rugosity, rather closely dotted with 

 large shallow punctuies connected by short irregular 

 depressed lines; on each elytron three faintly defined 

 equidistant costse, obsolete at base and apex ; 

 shoulders rounded, sides narrowly horizontal and 

 bordered by narrow raised edge. Abdomen shining, finely 

 longitudinnlly strigose, the metasternum sulcate in the middle, 

 the prosternum narrowly convex and produced behind, men- 

 turn and submentum strongly punctured, the tooth of the latter 

 small, front and intermediate tibiae slightly curved, all tibiea 

 with a few scattered reddish hairs and strongly punctulate, 

 anterior tarsi transverse, posterior tarsi with basal joint nearly 

 as long as the rest combined. Dimensions 15x6 mm. 



Hab. — Eucla, South Australia. 



A single specimen, ^, has been sent by Mr. C. French since 

 my last paper was written. It is nearest to A. Goudiei Carter, 

 but differs most markedly in the following characters : (1) size 

 smaller ; (2) prothorax with anterior angles less directed outwards, 

 less widely rounded, and deflected, not produced outwards at the 

 posterior angles; (3) elytra more deeply punctured, with more 

 evident costae. Type in the author's collection. 



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