BY H. J. CARTER. 



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Agasthenes Championi, n.sp. (Fig. 3). 



Elongate, subparallel smooth, subnitid, oral organs and 

 antennae reddish. 



Head more finely and closely punctured than in A. Westwoodi 

 Bates, its structural characters otherwise similar; antennae not 

 quite reaching base of prothorax, third joint at least 

 as long as fourth and fifth combined, cylindrical, 

 4-10 successively wider and shorter, obconic, eleventh 

 elongate-oval, four apical joints lighter led. Pro- 

 thorax (5x7 mm.), length in middle, widest behind 

 middle, base half as wide again as apex, widely 

 emarginate at apex, anterior angles acute (less acute 

 and more outwardly directed than in A. Westwoodi), 

 sides widening in a regular curve to beyond half-way, 

 then rather suddenly narrowing and widely sinuate 

 before the acute posterior angle, this produced 

 obliquely outwards and backwards into a blunt tooth- 

 base thinly margined, apex moderately margined at 

 sides only, sides thickly margined; disc minutely and 

 closely punctured (punctures more evident than 

 in A. Westwoodi), otherwise smooth. Scutellum 

 transverse, triangular. Elytra (10-5 x 7 mm.) wider than pro- 

 thorax at base, shoulders much more squai'ely rounded, with mar- 

 gins more raised than in A. Westwoodi, sides subparallel till near 

 apex, convexity as in A. Westivoodi, suture depressed, lateral 

 gutter more defined and wider than in A. Westwoodi, with about 

 three obscurely marked depressions, even more minutely punc- 

 tured than in A Westivoodi, with the lateral row of large punc- 

 tures continued almost to apex. Abdomen faintly strigose, 

 submental teeth bluntly rounded, submentum much less coarsely 

 and more sparsely punctured than in A. Westwoodi; other charac- 

 ters very similar to those of Bates' species. Dimensions 

 .^.17x7 mm.: 5. 19 x 8 mm. 



Hah. — Overland railway route E. of Wunbering Rocks, South 

 Australia. 



Fig. 3. 



