222 INSECTS OF THE CAIRNS DISTRICT, NORTHERN QUEENSLAND, 



side under the eyes. Thorax much broader than the head and 

 broader than long, smooth, convex, emarginate in front and 

 rounded behind, showing under a lens a very minute puncturation> 

 and with a short longitudinal impression near the middle of the 

 sides. Elytra very slightly broader than the thorax, convex, 

 about as broad as long, and rounded behind, with distant faint 

 striae, and flat punctate interstices only traceable under a powerful 

 lens. The pygidium is exposed and somewhat rounded. The 

 legs are piceous and rather strong, the hinder tibiae are much 

 curved, the anterior are serrated above the teeth. In one of my 

 specimens the elytra are piceous. 



Length, 2^ lines. 



Hab. — Cairns. 



16. Epilissus globulus. 



Ovate, convex, black, nitid, the humeral angles obscurely piceous. 

 Head smooth, very minutely punctate, the clypeus broadly rounded 

 in front, with a small emargination in the middle, and a small 

 tooth on each side of it. Thorax transverse, emarginate in front, 

 rounded behind and on the sides, and minutely punctate, with a 

 short impression near the middle of each side. Elytra wider than 

 the thox-ax and widest in the middle, very convex and scarcely 

 longer than wide, and very finely and faintly striate and punctate. 



Length, 1| lines. 



Hah. — Cairns. 



17. Onthophagus Froggatti. 



Black, very nitid, the head and thorax having a faint greenish 

 tint. Head finely punctate, clypeus large, more densely punctured 

 than the head, of triangular form, the apex slightly recurved and 

 rounded, the back of the head produced into a broad plate from 

 the apex of which rise two longish horns, parallel, close together 

 and curving forwards. Thorax transverse and perfectly smooth, 

 the anterior angles acute, the sides much bulged out in the middle, 

 the base rounded, the anterior portion behind the head horns 

 perpendicular and slightly retuse, with two small obtuse tubercles 

 on the summit of the retuse portion. Elytra not so broad and 



