BY WILLIAM MACLEAY, F.L.S., &C. 537" 



34. PxEROHELiEUS GRANULIGER, n. Sp. 



Oblong-ovate, black, sub-nitid, sub-depressed. Head finely 

 punctate, clypeus broad, slightly convex, clypeal suture a little 

 depressed and not marked in the middle, eyes rather distant. 

 Thorax finely punctate, rather opaque, the anterior angles ad- 

 vanced, reaching to the front of the eyes, margins broad and 

 slightly rugose, the base bisinuate, its central lobe slightly reflected 

 on the margin. Elytra of the width of the thorax, and three 

 times the length, parallel-sided to near the apex, seriate-punc- 

 tate in 17 rows, the punctures deep and of moderate size, the 

 interstices a little raised (the fourth and eighth very slightly more 

 than the others) and all rather closely studded with bright bead- 

 like granules ; the margins are very narrow, concave, thinly 

 punctate, and a little reflected at the humeral angles. Body 

 beneath nitid and striolate : legs nitid and rather long and slight • 

 prosternum broad and four-grooved between the legs, terminating 

 behind in a flat triangular extension. 



Long. 10| lines, lat. 5 J lines. 



Hah. — Murrumbidoree 



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35. PxEROHELiEUS SUBGEMINATUS, n. sp. 



Oblong-oval, black, sub-opaque. Head very minutely punctate, 

 plain, without clypeal suture. Clypeus a little swollen in front, 

 that and the labrum slightly emarginate, eyes distant. Thorax 

 transverse, very minutely but not densely punctate, the anterior 

 angles not produced, the apex slightly emarginate, the lateral 

 margins rather broad, concave and of a reddish colour, the base 

 bisinuate. Elytra scarcely broader than the thorax, and three 

 times che length, with about 17 crowded rows of minute punctui-es, 

 disposed somewhat in pairs, the interstices perfectly flat and 

 furnished near the apex with some minute granules, the margins 

 very narrow and recurved. Body beneath and legs reddish, nitid,. 



