BY WILLIAM MACLEAY, F.L.S., &C. 219 



10. SCOPODES FASCIOLATUS. 



Coppeiy-bronze, with a more or less metallic lustre over the 

 whole upper surface ; legs and palpi yellow. Head irregularly 

 foveated in front. Thorax as wide as the head with the eyes, 

 much wider than long, a little narrowed at the posterior angles, 

 truncate in front and lobed behind, a little angular on the sides 

 behind the anterior angles Lhe angle marked by a setigerous 

 puncture, and a fovea on the disk on each side of the median line. 

 Elytra broad and flat, striate, with the interstices convex, and a 

 few small fovese on them ; a broad yellow lozenge-shaped fascia 

 behind the middle, joining or nearly joining a larger one on the 

 basal portion, occupy nearly the whole of the elytra. 



Length, l^ lines. 

 Ilab. — Cairns. 



11. HOMALOSOMA OPACIPENNE. 



Elongate, narrow, black, very opaque. Head smooth and nitid ; 

 a deep short impression on each side between and a little in front 

 of the eyes, and a smaller and lighter impression on each side of the 

 clypeus. Antennae and palpi piceous. Thorax rather longer than 

 wide, the sides with a broad and thick reflected margin ; anterior 

 angles rounded and produced, sides rounded and narrowed at the 

 base, which is very slightly rounded ; the posterior angles not 

 acute but nearly rectangular. Elytra narrower than the thorax, 

 slightly widening from the shoulders to behind the middle, 

 and conjointly rounded at the apex, each elytron having besides 

 a sutural costa thi-ee sharp ridges with wide flat interstices and a 

 double row of punctures on each ; the first and thii-d of these 

 forming a junction near the apex, the second a little abbreviated, 

 a very broad double groove occupies the lateral margins ; the base 

 of the second costa forms an obtuse reflected tubercle at the 

 humeral angle. Under surface nitid, black ; palpi, antennse and 

 tarsi piceous. 



Length, 10 lines. 



Hab. — Mulgrave Eiver. 



