BY H. J. CARTER. 



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•convex, anterior angles distinct and subrectangular, sides strongly 

 rounded, rapidl}' widening, sinuately contracting before the wide 

 dentate rectangular posterior angles; these a little 

 deflexed; marginal lobes separated by a groove 

 strongly defined anteriorly but not foliaceous {i.e., 

 sculpture of disc continuous to sides), the whole 

 closely and coarsely punctured with finely rugose 

 intervals in places; medial channel distinct through- 

 out, surrounded by a smooth narrow raised border, 

 most evidently raised at the posterior angles. 

 Scutellnm small, transverse, triangular. Elytra 

 considerably wider than prothorax at base and 

 nearly thrice as long, oval with base subtruncate, 

 humeri rather squarely rounded but promin- 

 ent ; punctate-striate, with eight deeply grooved 

 striae on disc and two more on sides; punctures 

 in grooves close and small, scarcely evident ^'^' *' 



towards middle, intervals rather flat in centre of disc, becoming 

 strongly convex laterally, and themselves closely and distinctly 

 punctured. Prosternum, undersides of prothorax, margins and 

 epipleurse strongly punctured, apical segment of abdomen finely 

 punctured, intercoxal process widely rounded, tibiee and basal 

 joints of tarsi clothed beneath with fine yellowish hair. Dimen- 

 sions 10 X 4 mm. 



Hah. — Kuranda, North Queensland. 



Two specimens, probably the two sexes, have been generously 

 given to me by Dr. E. W. Ferguson, who captured them. The 

 only sexual difference I can detect, is the slightly longer antennae 

 of the specimen which I take to be the male. It is an aberrant 

 member of Section ii., Subsection D(These Proceedings, 1908, 

 p.276) in that its elytral intervals are distinctly convex towards 

 the sides, and the elytra are deeply striate; and, moreover, dis- 

 tinguished from all of them by its brilliant metallic colour, and 

 its very pronounced hind angles to prothorax. Type in author's 

 coll. 



