THE INSECTS OF THE CAIRNS DISTRICT, NORTHERN 

 QUEENSLAND. Part II. 



(Continued from page 238). 



By William Macleay, F.Ij.S., &c. 



HETEEOMERA. 



Family TENEBRIONID^. 



Sub-Family HEL^IDES. 

 51. PTEROHELiEUS PUSILLUS. 



Ovate, moderately convex, black ; the legs^ palpi and antennae 

 piceous. Head subnitid, showing under a powerful lens minute 

 punctures ; the clypeus large, somewhat elevated and convex at 

 the apex, and almost semi-cii-cular behind, with the suture rather 

 indistinct except at the sides. Thorax sulmitid, very minutely 

 punctured, twice as broad as long, narrowly beaded all round, 

 semi-circularly emarginate in front, the anterior angles produced, 

 the sides roundly widening to the base and largely and rather 

 flatly margined, the posterior angles acute, the base lightly 

 bisinuate and fitting exactly to the base of the elytra, with a short 

 transverse depression on each side of the middle near the base. 

 Elytra of a dull black, very little wider than the base of the 

 tliorax, and about thrice its length, coarsely punctured; the 

 punctures placed very irregulai-ly in generally double rows with 

 some of the intei-stices slightly elevated ; the foliate recurved 

 lateral margins without punctures but minutely rugose. The 

 abdominal segments are nitid and longitudinally rugose, the 

 terminal segment is piceous. 



Length, 4^ lines. 



Hah. — Barron River. 



