BY THOMAS G. SLOA.VE. 387 



■thorax more or less setose; middle part of ventral segments 2-5 

 setigerous. Antennse with third joint one-half longer than 

 -second, setose only on the swollen anterior third. Labial palpi 

 with penultimate joint plurisetose; apical joint fusiform, bearing 

 a few fine long setee on each side. Labrum lightly emarginate. 

 Black, under surface and legs piceous-brown. 



Head large, convex(3-5 mm. across eyes); clypeal suture distinct; 

 front foveate on each side between bases of antennae; eyes small, 

 convex. Prothorax wide(4 x 5*5 mm.), convex, lightly rounded 

 on sides, very little narrowed to base; anterior angles wide, not 

 marked; base truncate; basal angles hardly marked, wide; border 

 obsolete, or almost so, on middle of apex and base, wide and 

 reflexed on sides; median line lightly impressed; a short rugose 

 fovea on each side of base, space between these fov^eje longi- 

 tudinally strigose. Elytra not greatly wider than prothorax 

 {9'3 X 6-1 mm.), strongly declivous on sides; base wide, truncate; 

 apical curve oblique on each side; ninth interstice depressed, 

 wider and impunctate on middle part of course; border reflexed 

 on sides, curving widely round humeral angles. Presternum 

 (including antecoxal part) setigero-punctate ; mesosLernuni 

 between coxse, and on each side, setulose-punctate; metathorax 

 on each side behind intermediate coxse strongly setigero-punctate. 

 Anterior trochanters plurisetose on anterior side and with one 

 long seta on lower side : posterior trochanters reniform, obtuse 

 at apex, glabrous (except just beside coxte); a single conspicuous 

 setigerous puncture on inner side near base : femora short, 

 swollen in middle; posterior femora short; a row of setigerous 

 punctures along lower margin of anterior side; four anterior tibias 

 wide at apex : anterior tibiai with a stout dentiform apical pro- 

 jection on lower side beside insertion of tarsi; external margin 

 with two small teeth above the dilatate triangular apical projec- 

 tion ; intermediate tibise with outer side arcuate, denticulate; 

 .apex dilated into a strong triangular process; posterior tibiae 

 slender, a little dilated at apex : anterior tarsi short, without 

 fsquamulae beneath. Length 1 4 o, 'breadth 6-1 nun. 



Ifab. — Queensland: Burketown District(Coll. Sloane; unique). 



